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GMAT For Dummies [Paperback]

Scott Hatch (Author), Lisa Zimmer Hatch (Author)
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September 12, 2006 0764596535 978-0764596537 5
If you’re planning to apply for an MBA program, you’re required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). And you thought your days of sharpening number 2 pencils were over! How do you prepare for such a comprehensive test? Never fear.

GMAT For Dummies, Fifth Edition, puts at your fingertips everything you need to know to conquer the GMAT. This highly readable, friendly guide makes the study process as painless as possible, providing you with complete math and grammar reviews and all the preparation you need to maximize your score and outsmart your competition. You’ll discover how to:

  • Understand the test’s format
  • Bring the right stuff
  • Make educated guesses
  • Avoid the exam’s pitfalls
  • Calm your nerves
  • Save time and beat the clock

This Fifth Edition is packed with plenty of updated practice questions so you can see just how the GMAT tests a particular concept. Our sample questions read just like the actual test questions, so you can get comfortable with the way the GMAT phrases questions and answer choices. You get plenty of tips on correctly answering the sentence correction, reading comprehension, and critical reading questions and tackling the analytical essays. There’s also a comprehensive math review of everything from number types to standard deviation and expanded coverage of statistics and probability. Each section ends with a mini practice test to prepare you for the two full-length practice tests featured in this easy-to-digest guide. You’ll see how to:

  • Quickly eliminate incorrect answer choices
  • Read passages quickly and effectively
  • Break apart and analyze arguments
  • Write a well-organized, compelling essay
  • Tackle the data sufficiency math question type that only appears on the GMAT
  • Use relaxation techniques if you start to panic during the test

Complete with a scoring guide, explanatory answers, timesaving tips, math formulas you should memorize, and a list of writing errors to avoid, GMAT For Dummies is all you need to practice your skills, improve your score, and pass with flying colors.


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GMAT scores are an important part of any graduate business-school application, so you need to perform well. Suzee Vlk, long time test-prep specialist and author of several Dummies books, can help. The GMAT for Dummies is packed with useful information and strategies to help you prepare for the test. The book includes advice on how to use the book efficiently (Vlk estimates you'll need 28 hours to work through it), review chapters for all three sections of the exam, and two complete practice exams. Two chapters focusing on the analytical writing assessment portion of the exam will help you write effective essays--and remind you that schools differ regarding the importance of this section. Vlk also offers special advice for "computer illiterates" worried about taking this computer-based exam. In familiar Dummies style, Vlk includes a handy tear-out "Quick Reference Card" with a summary of the most important information and a "Part of Tens" section with "10 Dumb Things You Can Do to Mess Up Your GMAT" and 10 relaxation techniques to use before and during the exam. With its witty writing and helpful icons in the margins pointing out important information, The GMAT for Dummies makes test preparation easy and relatively painless. --C.B. Delaney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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All-new coverage of the all-electronic Graduate Management Admission Test! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 5 edition (September 12, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764596535
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764596537
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.9 x 10.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars scared of the GMAT? good book to break you in, February 29, 2008
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LimeyLe (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: GMAT For Dummies (Paperback)
The GMAT prep books can be overwhelming, especially for those of us who have been out of college more than 5 years! I tried starting w/ the OG and my moral was crushed! This "dummies" book, like all "dummies" books is very straightforward and simply written. Which is a good thing! If you have the luxury of having at least 2 months to study and therefore have the time to work through this book, invest in it! it is a good book to start with to not only explain the test, but to also give you some basic practice questions, some tips on strategy and some decent solution explanations. Good confidence builder prior to moving onto the OG, Kaplan, Barrons, EZ Solutions. From this book(again assuming you have at least 2 months to study) I would move onto Crackin the Gmat, then onto Kaplan and Official Guide(OG), for extra practice throw in Barrons and for subject specific help, look into EZ Solutions and PowerScore...=)
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Good for starters, but pay attention to mistakes, March 30, 2010
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remixer (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: GMAT For Dummies (Paperback)
This book is a good place to start if you are just starting on your GMAT journey. It puts a lot of daunting concepts into simpler terms that are easier to understand and tries to break down the complex nature of the GMAT into bite-sized pieces. I went through this book as my first book before tackling on the Kaplan study guides, Manhattan guides and the official guide.

There are a few mistakes found in this book, which instantly warrants it nothing higher than 2-stars. Why? In my view, a study guide that is supposed to teach you how NOT to make mistakes on a major test shouldn't contain mistakes of its own, let alone a number of them. For example, one of the problems on pg. 150 told me to solve for X and Y provided with these equations: 6x + 4y = 66 and -2x + 2y = 8. The book came to the conclusion that x = 7 and y = 9. Plug in those numbers into the equation and you can clearly see the answer is wrong. After solving it correctly on my own, I had to go back and figure out why the book was telling me otherwise, adding a lot of confusion and wasting precious time. All the editors had to do was double-check that the answers were indeed correct. I started second guessing every problem and solution, and wasted even more time going through its entirety.

There are not a lot of these mistakes (I counted maybe 3 or 4 of them), but they are there. Overall, the book is still somewhat helpful, but only as a beginners guide. It doesn't go too deeply into the harder problems you will encounter if you are reaching for anything even remotely close to a 700 score, but if you don't know where to begin studying for the GMAT, or if a friend has a copy you can borrow, it is a good place to start.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This new edition is completely different and much bettter!, February 26, 2007
This review is from: GMAT For Dummies (Paperback)
The previous reviews must be about an earlier edition of this book because I thought it was an excellent study aid for the GMAT. There were no typos that I could see, and the material was right on relevant to the way the questions are presented on the GMAT test.

The book was easy to read and actually (gasp!) made studying for the GMAT enjoyable. The practice test seemed to be at the same level as the actual GMAT, not harder and not easier.

This is a great prep tool. Check out this new edition by new authors. You won't be disappointed!
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