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Introduction
Part I: An Aerial View: Putting the GMAT into Perspective
- 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 II: A Word to the Wise: Verbal Questions
- 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 III: Everyone's a Critic: Critical Reasoning
- 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 IV: Right Writing and the GMAT: Analytical Writing Assessment
- 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 V: Two Years of Math in 58 Pages: The Dreaded Math Review
- 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 VI: Your Number's Up: Math Questions
- 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 VII: It All Comes Down to This: Full-Length Practice GMATs
- 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 VIII: The Part of Tens
- 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
Index
- 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
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