GMAT Prep 2024/2025 For Dummies with Online Practice

Lisa Zimmer Hatch, MA, and Scott A. Hatch, JD, have been helping students excel on standardized tests and navigate the college admissions process since 1987. They have written curricula and taught students internationally through live lectures, online forums, DVDs, and independent study, and have authored numerous test-prep texts. Sandra Luna McCune, PhD, is professor emeritus and a former Regents professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. She's currently a full-time author and math/statistics consultant.

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 41 Chapter 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 55 Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 71 Chapter 7: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 73 Chapter 8: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 95 Chapter 9: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 117 Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 143 Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 159 Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 161 Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 165 Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 173 Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 181 Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 189 Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 191 Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 213 Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 237 Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 257 Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 271 Chapter 20: It's All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 287 Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 305 Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 323 Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 325 Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 341 Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 353 Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 355 Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 381 Part 8: The Part of Tens 409 Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At 411 Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 415 Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 419 Index 423