GMAT PREP 2023 FOR DUMMIES WITH ONLINE PRACTICE

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
	About This Book
	Foolish Assumptions
	Icons Used in This Book
	Beyond the Book: The Online Practice
	Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Getting Started with the GMAT
	Chapter 1 The Lowdown on the GMAT
		Knowing Why the GMAT Is Important
		Timing It Perfectly: When to Take the GMAT (and What to Bring)
			When to register for and take the GMAT
			Things to take to the GMAT (and things to leave at home)
		Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT
			Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests
			Understanding the computerized format
			Honing your computer skills for the GMAT
		Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations
			How the GMAT testers figure your score
			How the GMAT testers report your score
			When should you cancel your GMAT score?
		Repeating the Process: Retaking the GMAT
	Chapter 2 Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT
		Discovering Strategies for Successful Guessing
			Forcing yourself to guess so you can move on
			Understanding the importance of completing each section
		Winning the Race against the Clock
			Giving each question equal treatment
			Making time for the last ten questions
			Keeping track of your pace
		Getting Rid of Wrong Answers
			Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format
			Recognizing wrong answers
		Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn’t Do When Taking the Test
			Don’t lose your focus
			Don’t read questions at lightning speed
			Don’t waste all your time on the hardest questions
			Don’t cheat
		Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques
	Chapter 3 Mastering Business School Admissions
		Choosing a Business School
		Lining Up Your Ducks — Applying to Business Schools
			When to apply
			What to submit
		Crafting Effective Business School Essays
Part 2 Creating a GMAT Study Plan
	Chapter 4 Planning Your Approach
		Using the Preassessment: The How-To
			Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative
			Evaluating Section 2: Verbal
			Evaluation Section 3: Integrated reasoning
		Devising a Plan of Attack
	Chapter 5 GMAT Practice Assessment
		Section 1: Quantitative
		Section 2: Verbal
		Section 3: Integrated Reasoning
	Chapter 6 Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment
		Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning
		Section 2: Verbal
		Section 3: Integrated Reasoning
		Answers at a Glance
Part 3 Vanquishing the Verbal Section
	Chapter 7 Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction
		Building a Solid Foundation: Grammar Basics
			Getting wordy: The parts of speech
			Pulling together: The parts of a sentence
		Pointing Out Mistakes: Common Sentence Correction Errors
			Errors in grammar and sentence construction
			Errors in expression
		Implementing an Approach to Sentence Correction Questions
			Spotting the error
			Eliminating answers that don’t correct errors
			Eliminating choices that create new errors
			Rereading the sentence
			Reviewing the process and guessing on sentence corrections
		Sentence Correction Practice Problems with Answer Explanations
			Practice problems
		Answer explanations
	Chapter 8 Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension
		Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like
		Approaching Reading Passages
			Mastering the message: The main point
			Absorbing the ambiance: Author’s tone
			Finding the framework: The passage’s outline
		Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages
			Experimenting with natural science passages
			Gathering in social circles: Social science passages
			Getting down to business passages
		Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions
			Identifying the question type
			Eliminating answer choices
			Dealing with exception questions
		Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations
			Reading comprehension practice questions
		Answer explanations
	Chapter 9 Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning
		Focusing on “Critical” Concepts: An Overview
			Understanding the structure of the questions
			Figuring out how to answer the questions
		Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic
			Fighting fair: The elements of an argument
			Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning
		Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types
		Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type
			Strengthening or weakening arguments
			Delving into drawing conclusions
			Spotting those sneaky assumptions
			Using your noggin to make inferences
			Pondering the paradox
			Making your way through method-of-reasoning questions
		Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations
			Critical reasoning practice questions
		Answer explanations
	Chapter 10 Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section
		Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions
		Understanding What’s Right with Answer Explanations
Part 4 Acing the Analytical Writing Section
	Chapter 11 Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment
		Fitting in the AWA with the Rest of the GMAT
		Calling 411: Your AWA Writing Tools
		Analyzing an Argument
		Racking Up the Points: How the GMAT Scores Your Essay
			Getting to know your readers
			Interpreting the scores
			Requesting your essay be rescored
	Chapter 12 Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay
		Avoiding Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics Errors
			Punctuation errors
			Sentence-structure problems
			Faulty forming of possessives
			Spelling issues
			More dos and don’ts
			Practice makes perfect!
		Building a Better Essay: Ten Steps to a Higher Score
	Chapter 13 Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays
		Defining GMAT AWA Scores
		Taking a Look at Sample Essays
			Sample essay #1
			Discussion of sample essay #1
			Sample essay #2
			Discussion of sample essay #2
			Sample essay #3
			Discussion of sample essay #3
			Sample essay #4
			Discussion of sample essay #4
	Chapter 14 Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts
		Sample Prompt #1
			Sample response to essay #1
			Dissection of essay #1
		Sample Prompt #2
			Sample response to essay #2
			Dissection of essay #2
		Sample Prompt #3
			Sample response to essay #3
			Dissection of essay #3
		Sample Prompt #4
			Sample response to essay #4
			Dissection of essay #4
Part 5 Conquering the Quantitative Section
	Chapter 15 Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations
		Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers
		It’s Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations
			Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing
			Checking out the real estate: Properties of real numbers
		Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents
			Adding and subtracting with exponents
			Multiplying and dividing with exponents
			Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1
			Dealing with fractional exponents
			Working with negative exponents
		Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots
		Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
		Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
			Defining numerators, denominators, and other stuff you need to know about fractions
			Adding and subtracting fractions
			Multiplying and dividing fractions
			Calculating percent change
			Taking it further: Repeated percent change
		Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions
		Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation
	Chapter 16 Considering All the Variables: Algebra
		Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terms
			Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants
			Coming together: Terms and expressions
			Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions
		Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations
			Adding to and taking away
			Multiplying and dividing expressions
		Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials
			Something in common: Finding common factors
			Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials
		Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions
			Standing in: Understanding function terminology
			Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions
		Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving
			Isolating the variable: Linear equations
			Bringing in the substitution: Simultaneous equations
			Not playing fair: Inequalities
			Solving quadratic equations
			Reading between the lines: Word problems
			Burning the midnight oil: Work problems
			Going the distance: Distance problems
	Chapter 17 Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids
		Fishing for the Answers: Lines and Angles
		Trusting Triangles
			Triple treat: Types of triangles
			The area of a triangle
			The Pythagorean theorem and other cool stuff about right triangles
			A striking resemblance: Similar triangles
		Playing Four Square: Quadrilaterals
			Drawing parallels: Parallelograms
			Raising the roof: Trapezoids
		Showing Their Good Sides: Other Polygons
		Eating Up Pieces of Pi: Circles
			Ring measurements: Radius, diameter, and circumference
			Blueprints for Noah: Arcs
			Line ’em up: Chords, inscribed and circumscribed figures, and tangents
		Getting a Little Depth Perception: Three-Dimensional Geometry
			Chipping off the old block: Rectangular solids
			Sipping from soda cans and other cylinders
	Chapter 18 Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry
		Taking Flight: The Coordinate Plane
			Line dancing: Understanding coordinate geometry
			What’s the point? Finding the coordinates
			On all fours: Identifying quadrants
		Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations
			Taking a peak: Defining the slope of a line
			Using the slope-intercept form to graph lines
			Meeting in the middle
			Going the distance
			Considering other shapes on the coordinate plane
		Fully Functioning: Graphing Functions
			Passing the vertical line test
			Feeling at home with domain and range
	Chapter 19 Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets
		Joining a Clique: Groups
		Setting Up Sets
			Set terminology
			Getting a visual: Venn diagrams
		Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations
			Positioning with permutations
			Coming together: Combinations
		Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode
		Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation
			Scouting out the range
			Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation
		Predicting the Future: Probability
			Finding the probability of one event
			Finding the probability of many events
	Chapter 20 It’s All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types
		Enough’s Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions
			You don’t need the solution to find the answer
			Steps to approaching data sufficiency problems
		Taking a Look at Data Sufficiency Practice Problems
			Practice questions
		Answer explanations
		Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions
		Trying Out Some Problem-Solving Practice Problems
			Practice questions
		Answer explanations
	Chapter 21 All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section
		Tackling GMAT Math Practice Questions
		Checking Out the Answer Explanations
Part 6 Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section
	Chapter 22 Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section
		Understanding What the IR Section Is All About
			Skills tested
			Question format
		Figuring Out How the IR Section Is Scored
		Making the Most of Your Time
		Approaching Each Question Type
			Table analysis
			Two-part analysis
			Graphics interpretation
			Multi-source reasoning
	Chapter 23 Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs
		Approaching Integrated Reasoning Data in Five Easy Steps
		Translating Information in Tables
		Making Comparisons with Bar Graphs
			Simple bar graphs
			Graphs with many bars
			Segmented bar graphs
		Evaluating Line Graphs
			Basic line graphs
			Scatter plots
			Complex scatter plots
		Clarifying Circle Graphs (Also Known as Pie Charts)
		Extracting Data from Venn Diagrams
Part 7 Practice Makes Perfect
	Chapter 24 GMAT Practice Test
		Answer Sheet
		Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment
		Section 3: Quantitative
		Section 4: Verbal
		Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment
		Section 2: Integrated Reasoning
		Section 3: Quantitative
		Section 4: Verbal
	Chapter 25 Practice Test Answers and Explanations
		Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment
		Section 2: Integrated Reasoning
		Section 3: Quantitative Reasoning
		Section 4: Verbal
		Answers at a Glance
Part 8 The Part of Tens
	Chapter 26 Ten Question Types You’ve Got a Good Shot At
		Main-Idea Reading Questions
		Specific Information Reading Questions
		Sentence Corrections
		Exception Questions for Reading Passages
		Strengthening or Weakening Critical Arguments
		Data Sufficiency Math Questions
		Math Problem Solving with Figures
		Math Problems Involving Basic Operations
		Substitution Math Problems
		Graph and Table Analysis Questions
	Chapter 27 Ten Writing Errors to Avoid
		Composing Complicated Sentences
		Presenting Your Text in Passive Voice
		Wasting Time with Unfamiliar Words
		Using Unclear (Or Zero) Transitions
		Going Overboard with Generic Terms
		Writing in Informal English
		Giving a Laundry List of Examples
		Succumbing to Sentence Fragments
		Announcing a Position without Explanation
		Putting Aside Proofreading
	Chapter 28 Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School
		Accumulate a Little Work Experience
		Ace the Interview
		Apply Early
		Apply While You’re Upwardly Mobile
		Capitalize on What Makes You Unique
		Demonstrate Interest
		Focus on Fit
		Get the Right Recommendations
		Study for the GMAT
		Write a Memorable Admissions Essay
Index
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