GMAT For Dummies 2021

Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with the GMAT 5 Chapter 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7 Chapter 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17 Chapter 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 27 Part 2: Creating a GMAT Study Plan 33 Chapter 4: Planning Your Approach 35 Chapter 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 39 Chapter 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 53 Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 69 Chapter 7: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 71 Chapter 8: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 93 Chapter 9: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 115 Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 139 Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 155 Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 157 Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 161 Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 169 Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 177 Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 185 Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 187 Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 209 Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 233 Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 253 Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 267 Chapter 20: It's All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 283 Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 301 Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 319 Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 321 Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 337 Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 349 Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 351 Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 377 Part 8: The Part of Tens 405 Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At 407 Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 411 Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting

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