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  • GMAT for Dummies
  • Written by author Suzee Vlk
  • Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1998/02/10
  • Getting a great score on the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) can be the first important step toward achieving the career of your dreams. Now, with The GMAT For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you can transform this daunting test from an impediment
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Introduction

Why You Need This Book
How to Get Your Money's Worth out of This Book
Pardon Me for Having a Life:
Who Has Time for This?
Time required to go through the GMAT lectures
Time required to go through the practice GMATs
Part I: An Aerial View: Putting the GMAT into Perspective
Chapter 1: Know Your Enemy: What the GMAT Looks Like
What a No-(Ac)count Section: Thirty Wasted Minutes
Gimme a Break! The GMAT Intermission
Beat the Clock: Timing Tips
Your Brain: Don't Leave Home Without It (and Other Things to Take to the GMAT)
What Not to Take to the Test with You
Isn't That Special? Unusual Circumstances
Learning disabilities
Physical disabilities
Financial difficulties
Religious obligations
Everyone Wants to Score
How scores are determined
How you win -- and lose -- points
Does a good GMAT score make me a nerd?
What is a good score?
Number of correct answers needed for specific scores
Stop me before I guess again: Serial guessers
Deja vu all over again: Repeating the test
Can you use older scores?
Part II: A Word to the Wise: Verbal Questions
Chapter 2: Write On: GMAT Grammar Review
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronouns
Adjectives and Adverbs
Sentence Structure
Parallelism
Comparisons
Diction
Miscellaneous Mistakes
Chapter 3: If You're Illiterate, Read This: Sentence Correction
I've Seen the Error of My Ways: What Sentence Correction Questions Look Like
What Do They Want Outta Me?: What Sentence Correction Questions Test
Effective writing
Sentence construction
Diction
Grammar
Awkwardness
Smart from the Start: Where to Begin
Grammar Gotchas! Tips and Traps
I Don't Have Time to Serve This Sentence: Timesaving Suggestions
Course Corrections Complete, Captain: A Final Review
Chapter 4: Cheezier by the Dozen: Sentence Correction Practice Questions
Chapter 5: Readings That Can Affect Your Future: Blood Pressure, Astrology, and GMAT
Why Do They Call It Reading Comprehension If I Don't Understand a Thing I've Read?
The Three Commonly Tested Reading Passages
Beam me up, Scotty! Biological and physical science passages
It's not a disease: The social science passage
What business is it of yours? The business passages
Last Things First: Reading the Questions before the Passages
All or Nothing: Questions You Should Always Do; Questions You Should Never Do
It's the attitude, dude: The attitude or tone question
What's the big idea: Main idea or best title
Don't pester me with details: The detail or fact question
Get the hint? Inference questions
Use it or lose it: Application questions
Sense and nonsense: Logic questions
The few to do: Mini review
The power of positive thinking: Negative or exception questions
Toga! Toga! Toga! The Roman numeral question
The two not to do: Mini-review
Something Up My Sleeve: Tricks for Making Life a Little Easier
Be positive or neutral, not negative
Choose answers containing key words
Correct answers are usually a little above or a little below the key words or indicated line numbers
One More Time: A Final Review
An overview of the types of passages and reading suggestions for each one
An overview of the types of questions and the traps hidden in each one
Chapter 6: Practice What I Preach: Reading Comprehensive Practice Questions
Passage I
Passage II
Passage III
Part III: Everyone's a Critic: Critical Reasoning
Chapter 7: Even the GMAT Can Be Illogical: Critical Reasoning
The RC Wanna-Be: The Format
For Better or for Worse: Strengthening and Weakening Arguments
Search and Destroy: Ways to Weaken an Argument
I Love Happy Endings: Finding the Conclusion
A Sound Foundation: The Assumption
It's All in Your Head: The Inference Question
Questions Only Mr. Spock Could Love: Pure Logic
Working toward Your Goals: Identifying What the Question Is Asking You
A Logical Conclusion: Review
Chapter 8: Reality Check: Critical Reasoning Practice Questions
Part IV: Right Writing and the GMAT: Analytical Writing Assessment
Chapter 9: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It: Analytical Writing Assessment
Your Opinion Counts: Analysis of an Issue
Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing: Analysis of an Argument
Half a Dozen Is Better than None: Scoring
The hunt for the next Hemingway: What do the evaluators look for?
Pointless information: What drives the evaluators crazy
Aerobic Writing: Follow the Steps
Analysis of an Issue
Analysis of an Argument
Chapter 10: Do You Have the Write Stuff? Analytical Writing Practice Questions
Analysis of an Issue
Analysis of an Argument
Analysis of an Issue
Analysis of an Argument
Grading
Part V: Two Years of Math in 58 Pages: The Dreaded Math Review
Chapter 11: More Figures than a Beauty Pageant: Geometry Review
You Gotta Have an Angle: Angles
Triangle Trauma: Triangles
Similar figures
Area
Pythagorean theorem
Pythagorean triples
Thanks 4 Nothing: Quadrilaterals
Quaint quads: Bizarre quadrilaterals
Leftovers again: Shaded-area problems
Missing Parrots and Other Polly-Gones: More Polygons
Total interior angle measure
One interior angle
Volume
Total surface area (TSA)
I'm Too Much of a Klutz for Coordinate Geometry
Running Around in Circles
Chapter 12: Gotta Catch Some (Xs, Ys, and) Zs: Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids
The Powers That Be: Bases and Exponents
Keep It in Proportion: Ratios
Things Aren't What They Seem: Symbolism
Abracadabra: Algebra
Solve for x in an equation
Curses! FOILed again
Fact-or Fiction: Factoring
Too Hip to Be Square: Roots and Radicals
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Inside out
Probably Probability
Chapter 13: Miscellaneous Math You Probably Already Know
DIRTy Math: Time, Rate, and Distance
It All Averages Out: Averages
Missing term average problem
Weighted averages
Percentage Panic
Life has its ups and downs: Percent increase/decrease
Ready, Sets, Go: Number Sets
Prime and Composite Numbers
I'm All Mixed Up: Mixture Problems
Greed Is Great: Interest Problems
All Work and No Play: Work Problems
Reading between the Lines: Absolute Value
Smooth Operator: Order of Operations
Measuring Up: Units of Measurement
What's the Point: Decimals
Adding and subtracting decimals
Multiplying decimals
Dividing decimals
Broken Hearts, Broken Numbers: Fractions
Adding or subtracting
Multiplying fractions
Dividing fractions
Mixed numbers
The Stats Don't Lie: Statistics
Median
Mode
Range
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Graphs
Part VI: Your Number's Up: Math Questions
Chapter 14: Sufficient unto the Problem Are the Data Therein
Where Did All the Answers Go? The DS Format
As Easy as pi: Approaching DS Questions
Gotchas and Groaners: Tips, Traps, and Tricks
Don't tell me what I already know: Repetitive info
The Greeks discovered that years ago: Math rules
Separate but equal: Independent statements
Thanks, but I can do it myself
Lite math: Reduced calories, no workout needed
Learn to take no for an answer
They're dropping like flies: Eliminating as you go
C you later
Familiarity Breeds Content(ment): A Review
Approach
Tricks
Chapter 15: The Dirty Dozen: Data Sufficiency Practice Questions
Chapter 16: Real Math at Last: Problem-Solving
Strategic Planning: The Attack Strategy
Five Common-Sense Suggestions
Easy problems often have easy answers
Eliminate illogical (dumb) answer choices
Don't choose a "close enough" answer
Don't be afraid to skip
Give your pencil a workout
Summary
Approach
Tricks
Chapter 17: A Chance to Show Off: Problem-Solving Practice Questions
Part VII: It All Comes Down to This: Full-Length Practice GMATs
Chapter 18: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part I: Practice Exam 1
Practice Exam 1 Answer Sheet
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Answer Key for Practice Exam 1
Scoring
Chapter 19: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Sections 7 and 8
Chapter 20: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part II: Practice Exam 2
Practice Exam 2 Answer Sheet
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Answer Key for Practice Exam 2
Scoring
Chapter 21: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7 and 8
Part VIII: The Part of Tens
Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Use GMAT Math in the Real World
Getting Out of Paying for Gas
Saving Money Dining Out at Fine Establishments
Making Your Roommates Clean Up Your Mess
Getting Out of Your Share of the Work
Annoying the Elderly
Talking Your Way Out of a Speeding Ticket
Making Your Parents Think that Your Grades Are Better Than They Are
Rejecting a Date without Destroying an Ego
Confusing Your Parents about Where the Money Went
Stiffing a Waiter on a Tip
Chapter 23: Ten Wrong Rumors about the GMAT
Filling in All A's Is Better Than Jumping Around, Filling in A, B, C, D, or E
You Can't Have Three A's in a Row
"Lesser-Taken Tests" Are Easier
Tests in Different Parts of the Country Are Different
You Can't Study for the GMAT
Your GMAT Score Will Be about the Same as Your SAT Score from High School
The GMAT Tests IQ
You Must Pass Certain Classes to Take the GMAT
Your Score Won't Improve If You Keep Retaking the GMAT
The GMAT Has a Passing Score
Chapter 24: Ten Dumb Things You Can Do to Mess Up Your GMAT
Losing Concentration
Panicking over Time
Messing up Numbering on the Answer Grid
Rubbernecking
Cheating
Worrying about the Previous Sections
Worrying about the Hard Problems
Transferring Information from Problem to Problem or Section to Section
Forgetting to Double-Check
Looking Back and Playing "Coulda-Shoulda"
Chapter 25: Ten Relaxation Techniques You Can Try Before and During the GMAT
Breathe Deeply
Rotate Your Head
Hunch and Roll Your Shoulders
Cross and Roll Your Eyes
Shake Out Your Hands
Extend and Push Out Your Legs
Cup Your Eyes
Rotate Your Scalp
Curtail Negative Thoughts
Before the Test or During a Break, Visualize
Chapter 26: Ten Types of Questions You Can Skip
Killer Closers
Time-Waster Math
Weak Third of Math
Negative Questions
Roman Numeral Questions
Double Negative Reading Comprehension Questions
Reading Comprehension Questions Based on Between-the-Lines Information
Parallel Reasoning Critical Reasoning Questions
Super-Long Critical Reasoning Questions
Chapter 27: Ten Questions You Shouldn't Skip
Sentence Correction Questions
Questions in the First Third or First Half
Reading Comprehension's Main Idea or Best Title Question
Reading Comprehension's Attitude or Tone Questions
Exponents Questions
Symbolism Questions
Formula Problems
Problems with Drawn Figures
Data Sufficiency Questions
Linear Algebra Problems
Chapter 28: Ten Points You Should Always Double-Check
Exponents
All Answer Choices for Critical Reasoning Questions
Common-sense Connections
Decimal Places
Political Correctness
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun Agreement
Diction Errors
Sentence Structure
Choice C in Data Sufficiency Questions
Chapter 29: Ten Math Concepts You Absolutely Must Know
Ratios
Common Pythagorean Ratios
FOIL Method of Algebra
Linear Algebraic Equations
Symbolism
Exponents
Square Roots
Plotting Points on a Graph
Angles
Circles
Index
Reader Response Card


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