ARCO Teach Yourself the GMAT CAT in 24 Hours, with CD-ROM [Hardcover]

Mark Alan Stewart (Author), Frederick J. O'Toole (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Arco Pub; Bk&CD Rom edition (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028628667
• ISBN-13: 978-0028628660
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,234,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book !, September 25, 2003

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Jørgen Anders Geertsen (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ARCO Teach Yourself the GMAT CAT in 24 Hours, with CD-ROM (Hardcover)

I just rated Kaplan's GMAT book but I feel I need to chime in regarding Arco...because that book was very helpful !

I'm not a native speaker of English and have never taken a standardized test before in my life; yet I scored a 770 (99 percentile) on the GMAT in my first try 3 days ago.

I started out with Arco's 24-hour course. Arco's book is great, and it has quite a bit more stuff on the math and verbal part than Kaplan has. I didn't get the CD rom though since I got an older edition, so I can't rate the software. But the book itself is excellent.

Arco has a lot of useful info on both the math and verbal sections. There are a lot of relevant problems in the book, and their style comes close to the real thing. The book is well written with lots of useful advice. There a very few mistakes and printing errors in the book.

After Arco I went on to tackle the official guide from ETS. Anyone who wants to prepare for the GMAT should work some of the problems in this book. I did them all, but I don't really think that's neccesary -- just do the final third in each section and you'll be fine.

Finally I read the Kaplan book. There was not much in the book that I didn't already know. In fact, Kaplan has much less material than Arco. However, when you start working with Kaplan's CD rom you realize how much info is packed on that disk. There's 18 quizzes with 9 math and 9 verbal and they're all great practice. They actually force you to work *faster* than you'll need for the real test. Also, there are very few errors in the Kaplan material, and their problems come very close to the real ones.

I took the four GMAT CATs on the CD rom and got 700, 780, 660 and 700. There's no question that Kaplan artificially lower your score so you're guaranteed to score higher on the real test, but that's cool as long as it doesn't discourages you. Just know that's the way it is.

I also took the PowerPrep tests, just for practice... but I had already done the problems in the ETS book ! However you definitely should work with PowerPrep to get a sense of the problems and the way they're presented.

Hope this helps. Good luck !!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Had known this magic manual earlier!, May 23, 1999

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[e-mail] (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ARCO Teach Yourself the GMAT CAT in 24 Hours, with CD-ROM (Hardcover)

Had known this book earlier, I could have scored better on my first trial. Anyway, it's a well structured manual with lots of model questions, workshops on both manual and cd-rom. You will be guided with hints and tips to tackle any kind of GMAT questions (easiest to the hardest ones). Above all, its AWA guidances and reviews are fantastics. I am confident to score much better on my next (final) attempt in a few months time. Wish all of you good lucks.