GMAT Prep 2024/2025 For Dummies with Online Practice (2023)

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GMAT® Prep 2024/2025 For Dummies® with Online Practice
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction 1
Part 1: Getting Started with the GMAT 5
CHAPTER 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7
CHAPTER 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17
CHAPTER 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 29
Part 2: Creating a GMAT Study Plan 35
CHAPTER 4: Planning Your Approach 37
CHAPTER 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 43
CHAPTER 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 55
Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 67
CHAPTER 7: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 69
CHAPTER 8: Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning 91
CHAPTER 9: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 119
Part 4: Conquering the Quantitative Section 133
CHAPTER 10: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 135
CHAPTER 11: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 157
CHAPTER 12: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 191
CHAPTER 13: Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions 209
CHAPTER 14: Prove Your Prowess: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 217
Part 5: Excelling on the Data Insights Section 229
CHAPTER 15: Four Types of Distinctive Data Insights Questions 231
CHAPTER 16: Deciphering Data in Graphics 247
CHAPTER 17: Enough’s Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions 259
Part 6: Practice Makes Perfect 271
CHAPTER 18: GMAT Practice Test 273
CHAPTER 19: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 291
Part 7: The Part of Tens 307
CHAPTER 20: Ten Question Types You’ve Got a Good Shot At 309
CHAPTER 21: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 313
Index 317

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Table of Contents ix
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book: The Online Practice 3
Where to Go from Here 3
PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH THE GMAT 5
CHAPTER 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7
Knowing Why the GMAT Is Important 7
Planning It Perfectly: When and How to Take the GMAT 8
Choosing between taking the GMAT online or at a test center 8
When to register for and take the GMAT 9
Things to take to the GMAT testing center (or to have at home) 10
Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT 11
Examining the structure of the GMAT 12
Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests 12
Understanding the computerized format 13
Honing your computer skills for the GMAT 14
Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations 14
How the GMAT testers figure your score 14
How the GMAT testers report your score 14
What about canceling your GMAT scores? 15
Repeating the Process: Retaking the GMAT 15
CHAPTER 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17
Discovering Strategies for Boosting Your Score 17
Forcing yourself to guess so you can move on 18
Taking advantage of the review and edit feature 18
Understanding the importance of completing each section 19
Winning the Race against the Clock 19
Giving each question equal treatment 19
Making time for the last ten questions 20
Keeping track of your pace 20
Getting Rid of Wrong Answers 21
Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format 21
Recognizing wrong answers 22
Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn’t Do When Taking the Test 25
Don’t lose your focus 25
Don’t read questions at lightning speed 26
Don’t waste all your time on the hardest questions 26
Don’t cheat 26
Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques 26

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CHAPTER 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 29
Choosing a Business School 29
Lining Up Your Ducks — Applying to Business Schools 31
When to apply 32
What to submit 32
Crafting Effective Business School Essays 33
PART 2: CREATING A GMAT STUDY PLAN 35
CHAPTER 4: Planning Your Approach 37
Using the Pre-assessment: The How-To 37
Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative 37
Evaluating Section 2: Verbal 38
Evaluating Section 3: Data insights 38
Devising a Plan of Attack 39
When you have more than three months 39
When you have fewer than two months 40
CHAPTER 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 43
Section 1: Quantitative 44
Section 2: Verbal 46
Section 3: Data Insights 50
CHAPTER 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 55
Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning 55
Section 2: Verbal 58
Section 3: Data Insights 61
Answers at a Glance 66
PART 3: VANQUISHING THE VERBAL SECTION 67
CHAPTER 7: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 69
Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like 70
Approaching Reading Passages 70
Mastering the message: The main point 70
Absorbing the ambiance: Author’s tone 71
Finding the framework: The passage’s outline 71
Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages 72
Experimenting with natural science passages 72
Gathering in social circles: Social science passages 73
Getting down to business passages 73
Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions 73
Identifying the question type 74
Eliminating answer choices 77
Dealing with exception questions 78
Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations 80
Reading comprehension practice questions 81
Answer Explanations 85
CHAPTER 8: Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning 91
Focusing on “Critical” Concepts: An Overview 92
Understanding the structure of the questions 92
Figuring out how to answer the questions 92

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Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic 93
Fighting fair: The elements of an argument 93
Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning 93
Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types 96
Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type 96
Strengthening or weakening arguments 97
Delving into drawing conclusions 100
Spotting those sneaky assumptions 102
Using your noggin to make inferences 104
Pondering the paradox 105
Making your way through method-of-reasoning questions 106
Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations 108
Critical reasoning practice questions 108
Answer Explanations 113
CHAPTER 9: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 119
Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions 120
Understanding What’s Right with Answer Explanations 127
PART 4: CONQUERING THE QUANTITATIVE SECTION 133
CHAPTER 10: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 135
Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers 135
It’s Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations 137
Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing 137
A balancing act: Operations with even and odd numbers 139
Checking out the real estate: Fundamental concepts of real numbers 140
Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents 142
Adding and subtracting with exponents 143
Multiplying and dividing with exponents 143
Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 144
Dealing with fractional exponents 144
Working with negative exponents 144
Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots 145
Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally 146
Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents 147
Dealing with Decimals 148
Delving into fractions 148
Adding and subtracting fractions 150
Multiplying and dividing fractions 150
Calculating percent change 152
Taking it further: Repeated percent change 153
Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions 154
Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation 155
CHAPTER 11: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 157
Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terminology 157
Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants 158
Coming together: Terms and expressions 158
Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions 159
Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations 159
Adding to and taking away 160
Multiplying and dividing expressions 161

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Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials 164
Something in common: Finding common factors 164
Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials 165
Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions 166
Standing in: Understanding function terminology 166
Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions 168
Getting in line: Sequences and series 170
Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving 171
Isolating the variable: Linear equations with one unknown 171
Being absolutely positive: Absolute value equations 173
Getting in sync: Simultaneous equations 173
Not playing fair: Inequalities 176
Solving quadratic equations 179
Reading between the lines: Word problems 181
Burning the midnight oil: Work problems 182
Going the distance: Distance problems 183
Mixing it up: Mixture problems 184
Catching a break: Break-even problems 184
Seeing Is Believing: The Coordinate Plane 185
Getting the plane truth: Coordinate plane terminology 185
Getting to the point? Finding the coordinates 186
Dividing the territory: Identifying quadrants 186
Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations 187
Taking a “peak”: The slope of a line 187
Using the slope-intercept form for linear equations 188
CHAPTER 12: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 191
Joining a Clique: Groups 191
Setting Up Sets 193
Set terminology 193
Getting a visual: Venn diagrams 193
Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations 194
Counting without listing 195
Positioning with permutations 195
Coming together: Combinations 197
Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode 198
Summing it up mean-ingfully 199
Feeling median-ly split 199
Modeling the mode 199
Tuning into the frequencies 200
Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation 201
Scouting out the range 201
Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation 201
Predicting the Future: Probability 203
Taking a chance 203
Fishing for a complement 203
Conditioning the probability 203
Recognizing mutually exclusive events 204
Gaining insight into independent and dependent events 204
Juggling multiple probabilities 205

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CHAPTER 13: Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions 209
Be Prepared: A Practice Problem Solving Plan 209
Trying Out Some Problem Solving Practice Problems 211
Answer Explanations 214
CHAPTER 14: Prove Your Prowess: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 217
Tackling Problem Solving Practice Questions 218
Checking Out the Answer Explanations 222
PART 5: EXCELLING ON THE DATA INSIGHTS SECTION 229
CHAPTER 15: Four Types of Distinctive Data Insights Questions 231
Understanding What the IR Questions Are All About 231
Skills tested 232
About the question types 232
Approaching Each Question Type 234
Table analysis 234
Two-part analysis 237
Graphics interpretation 240
Multi-source reasoning 242
CHAPTER 16: Deciphering Data in Graphics 247
Mastering Graphics-Focused Questions with Five Simple Steps 247
Translating Information in Tables 248
Making Comparisons with Bar Graphs 249
Simple bar graphs 249
Graphs with many bars 250
Segmented bar graphs 251
Honing in on Histograms 252
Looking at Line Graphs 252
Basic line graphs 253
Scatter plots 253
Complex scatter plots 254
Perusing Stem-and-Leaf Plots 255
Clarifying Circle Graphs (Also Known as Pie Charts) 256
Venturing into Venn Diagrams 257
CHAPTER 17: Enough’s Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions 259
You Don’t Need the Solution to Find the Answer 259
Steps to Approaching Data Sufficiency Questions 260
Taking on Data Sufficiency Practice Problems 264
Answer Explanations 266
PART 6: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT 271
CHAPTER 18: GMAT Practice Test 273
Answer Sheet 275
Section 1: Data Insights 276
Section 2: Quantitative 277
Section 3: Verbal 282

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