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<p>Start Here 1</p> <p>About This Book 1</p> <p>Foolish Assumptions 1</p> <p>Icons Used in This Book 2</p> <p>Where to Go from Here 2</p> <p><b>Block 1: GMAT Overview in 20 Minutes 3</b></p> <p>Signing Up for the GMAT 3</p> <p>Deciding where to take the test 3</p> <p>Registering for the GMAT 4</p> <p>Knowing What’s on the Test 4</p> <p>Checking out how the GMAT is structured 5</p> <p>Knowing what you’re being tested for 5</p> <p>Navigating the computerized test 6</p> <p>Preparing for the GMAT 7</p> <p>Getting Up to Speed on GMAT Scoring 8</p> <p>Interpreting your score 8</p> <p>Deciding whether to retake the test 9</p> <p><b>Block 2: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 11</b></p> <p>Acing the Reading Comprehension Questions 11</p> <p>Knowing what reading comprehension questions look like 11</p> <p>Approaching reading passages 12</p> <p>Sticking to the subject: Types of passages 13</p> <p>Approaching reading comprehension questions 14</p> <p>Reading comprehension practice questions with answer explanations 20</p> <p>Sharpening Your Critical Reasoning Skills 25</p> <p>Focusing on “critical” concepts: An overview 25</p> <p>Making a case: Essentials of informal logic 26</p> <p>Thinking inside the box: Question types 29</p> <p>Stalking your prey: How to approach each question type 30</p> <p>Critical reasoning practice questions and answer explanations 41</p> <p><b>Block 3: Conquering the Quantitative Section 47</b></p> <p>Juggling Numbers and Operations 47</p> <p>Just your type: Kinds of numbers 47</p> <p>It’s not brain surgery: Basic operations 48</p> <p>Working with bases and exponents 52</p> <p>Checking out the ancestry: Roots 54</p> <p>Following the order of operations 55</p> <p>Splitting up: Fractions, decimals, and percents 56</p> <p>Making comparisons: Ratios and proportions 61</p> <p>Playing the numbers: Scientific notation 62</p> <p>Considering All the Variables: Algebra 63</p> <p>Defining the elements: Algebraic terminology 63</p> <p>Mastering algebraic operations 65</p> <p>Extracting information: Factoring polynomials 70</p> <p>Minding your Ps and Qs: Functions 71</p> <p>Putting on your thinking cap: Problem solving 75</p> <p>Seeing is believing: The coordinate plane 87</p> <p>Slip-sliding away: Slope and linear equations 89</p> <p>Manipulating Statistics and Sets 91</p> <p>Joining a clique: Groups 92</p> <p>Setting up sets 93</p> <p>Dealing with permutations and combinations 94</p> <p>Meeting in the middle: Mean, median, and mode 97</p> <p>Solving range and standard deviation problems 99</p> <p>Predicting the future: Probability 101</p> <p>Tackling Problem-Solving Questions 105</p> <p><b>Block 4: Excelling on the Data Insights Section 107</b></p> <p>Knowing What to Expect: Four Key Integrated Reasoning Question Types 107</p> <p>Understanding what the IR questions are all about 107</p> <p>Approaching each question type 110</p> <p>Extracting Insights from Graphic Data 122</p> <p>Mastering graphics-focused questions with five simple steps 122</p> <p>Translating information in tables 123</p> <p>Making comparisons with bar graphs 123</p> <p>Honing in on histograms 126</p> <p>Looking at line graphs 127</p> <p>Perusing stem-and-leaf plots 130</p> <p>Clarifying circle graphs (also known as pie charts) 130</p> <p>Venturing into Venn diagrams 131</p> <p>Taking on Data Sufficiency Questions 133</p> <p>You don’t need the solution to find the answer 133</p> <p>Steps to approaching data sufficiency questions 134</p> <p><b>Block 5: Taking a (Shortened) Practice Test 139</b></p> <p>Section 1: Data Insights 140</p> <p>Section 2: Quantitative 145</p> <p>Section 3: Verbal 148</p> <p>Answer and Explanations 152</p> <p>Section 1: Data Insights 152</p> <p>Section 2: Quantitative 155</p> <p>Section 3: Verbal 159</p> <p>Answer Key 162</p> <p><b>Block 6: Ten Tips for Scoring Higher on the GMAT 163</b></p> <p>Pace Yourself 163</p> <p>Guess and Move On 164</p> <p>Take Advantage of the Review and Edit Option 164</p> <p>Finish It! Completing Each Section 164</p> <p>Give Each Question Equal Treatment 165</p> <p>Make Time for the Last Ten Questions 165</p> <p>Use the Process of Elimination to Improve Your Odds 166</p> <p>Maintain Your Focus 166</p> <p>Take Time to Read the Questions 166</p> <p>Don’t Sink All Your Time into the Hard Questions 167</p> <p>Index 169</p>

<p> <b>Lisa Zimmer Hatch, MA,</b> and <b>Scott A. Hatch, JD,</b> help students excel on standardized tests. They have authored numerous test-prep texts and curricula. <p> <b>Sandra Luna McCune, PhD,</b> is professor emeritus at Stephen F. Austin State University. She’s currently an author and statistics consultant.</b>

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