Start Here | 1 |
About This Book | 1 |
Foolish Assumptions | 1 |
Icons Used in This Book | 2 |
Where to Go from Here | 2 |
Block 1 GMAT Overview in 20 Minutes | 3 |
Signing Up for the GMAT | 3 |
Deciding where to take the test | 3 |
Registering for the GMAT | 4 |
Knowing What's on the Test | 4 |
Checking out how the GMAT is structured | 5 |
Knowing what you're being tested for | 5 |
Navigating the computerized test | 6 |
Preparing for the GMAT | 7 |
Getting Up to Speed on GMAT Scoring | 8 |
Interpreting your score | 8 |
Deciding whether to retake the test | 9 |
Block 2 Vanquishing the Verbal Section | 11 |
Acing the Reading Comprehension Questions | 11 |
Knowing what reading comprehension questions look like | 11 |
Approaching reading passages | 12 |
Sticking to the subject: Types of passages | 13 |
Approaching reading comprehension questions | 14 |
Reading comprehension practice questions with answer explanations | 20 |
Sharpening Your Critical Reasoning Skills | 25 |
Focusing on "critical" concepts: An overview | 25 |
Making a case: Essentials of informal logic | 26 |
Thinking inside the box: Question types | 29 |
Stalking your prey: How to approach each question type | 30 |
Critical reasoning practice questions and answer explanations | 41 |
Block 3 Conquering the Quantitative Section | 47 |
Juggling Numbers and Operations | 47 |
Just your type: Kinds of numbers | 47 |
It's not brain surgery: Basic operations | 48 |
Working with bases and exponents | 52 |
Checking out the ancestry: Roots | 54 |
Following the order of operations | 55 |
Splitting up: Fractions, decimals, and percents | 56 |
Making comparisons: Ratios and proportions | 61 |
Playing the numbers: Scientific notation | 62 |
Considering All the Variables: Algebra | 63 |
Defining the elements: Algebraic terminology | 63 |
Mastering algebraic operations | 65 |
Extracting information: Factoring polynomials | 70 |
Minding your Ps and Qs: Functions | 71 |
Putting on your thinking cap: Problem solving | 75 |
Seeing is believing: The coordinate plane | 87 |
Slip-sliding away: Slope and linear equations | 89 |
Manipulating Statistics and Sets | 91 |
Joining a clique: Groups | 92 |
Setting up sets | 93 |
Dealing with permutations and combinations | 94 |
Meeting in the middle: Mean, median, and mode | 97 |
Solving range and standard deviation problems | 99 |
Predicting the future: Probability | 101 |
Tackling Problem-Solving Questions | 105 |
Block 4 Excelling on the Data Insights Section | 107 |
Knowing What to Expect: Four Key Integrated Reasoning Question Types | 107 |
Understanding what the IR questions are all about | 107 |
Approaching each question type | 110 |
Extracting Insights from Graphic Data | 122 |
Mastering graphics-focused questions with five simple steps | 122 |
Translating information in tables | 123 |
Making comparisons with bar graphs | 123 |
Honing in on histograms | 126 |
Looking at line graphs | 127 |
Perusing stem-and-leaf plots | 130 |
Clarifying circle graphs (also known as pie charts) | 130 |
Venturing into Venn diagrams | 131 |
Taking on Data Sufficiency Questions | 133 |
You don't need the solution to find the answer | 133 |
Steps to approaching data sufficiency questions | 134 |
Block 5 Taking a (Shortened) Practice Test | 139 |
Section 1: Data Insights | 140 |
Section 2: Quantitative | 145 |
Section 3: Verbal | 148 |
Answer and Explanations | 152 |
Section 1: Data Insights | 152 |
Section 2: Quantitative | 155 |
Section 3: Verbal | 159 |
Answer Key | 162 |
Block 6 Ten Tips for Scoring Higher on the GMAT | 163 |
Pace Yourself | 163 |
Guess and Move On | 164 |
Take Advantage of the Review and Edit Option | 164 |
Finish It! Completing Each Section | 164 |
Give Each Question Equal Treatment | 165 |
Make Time for the Last Ten Questions | 165 |
Use the Process of Elimination to Improve Your Odds | 166 |
Maintain Your Focus | 166 |
Take Time to Read the Questions | 166 |
Don't Sink All Your Time into the Hard Questions | 167 |
Index | 169 |