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GMAT 5-Hour Quick Prep For Dummies

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

06.02.2024

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

176

Maße (L/B/H)

27,7/21,9/1,5 cm

Gewicht

318 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-394-23171-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

06.02.2024

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

176

Maße (L/B/H)

27,7/21,9/1,5 cm

Gewicht

318 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-394-23171-3

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: GMAT 5-Hour Quick Prep For Dummies

  • Start Here 1

    About This Book 1

    Foolish Assumptions 1

    Icons Used in This Book 2

    Where to Go from Here 2

    Block 1: GMAT Overview in 20 Minutes 3

    Signing Up for the GMAT 3

    Deciding where to take the test 3

    Registering for the GMAT 4

    Knowing What's on the Test 4

    Checking out how the GMAT is structured 5

    Knowing what you're being tested for 5

    Navigating the computerized test 6

    Preparing for the GMAT 7

    Getting Up to Speed on GMAT Scoring 8

    Interpreting your score 8

    Deciding whether to retake the test 9

    Block 2: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 11

    Acing the Reading Comprehension Questions 11

    Knowing what reading comprehension questions look like 11

    Approaching reading passages 12

    Sticking to the subject: Types of passages 13

    Approaching reading comprehension questions 14

    Reading comprehension practice questions with answer explanations 20

    Sharpening Your Critical Reasoning Skills 25

    Focusing on "critical" concepts: An overview 25

    Making a case: Essentials of informal logic 26

    Thinking inside the box: Question types 29

    Stalking your prey: How to approach each question type 30

    Critical reasoning practice questions and answer explanations 41

    Block 3: Conquering the Quantitative Section 47

    Juggling Numbers and Operations 47

    Just your type: Kinds of numbers 47

    It's not brain surgery: Basic operations 48

    Working with bases and exponents 52

    Checking out the ancestry: Roots 54

    Following the order of operations 55

    Splitting up: Fractions, decimals, and percents 56

    Making comparisons: Ratios and proportions 61

    Playing the numbers: Scientific notation 62

    Considering All the Variables: Algebra 63

    Defining the elements: Algebraic terminology 63

    Mastering algebraic operations 65

    Extracting information: Factoring polynomials 70

    Minding your Ps and Qs: Functions 71

    Putting on your thinking cap: Problem solving 75

    Seeing is believing: The coordinate plane 87

    Slip-sliding away: Slope and linear equations 89

    Manipulating Statistics and Sets 91

    Joining a clique: Groups 92

    Setting up sets 93

    Dealing with permutations and combinations 94

    Meeting in the middle: Mean, median, and mode 97

    Solving range and standard deviation problems 99

    Predicting the future: Probability 101

    Tackling Problem-Solving Questions 105

    Block 4: Excelling on the Data Insights Section 107

    Knowing What to Expect: Four Key Integrated Reasoning Question Types 107

    Understanding what the IR questions are all about 107

    Approaching each question type 110

    Extracting Insights from Graphic Data 122

    Mastering graphics-focused questions with five simple steps 122

    Translating information in tables 123

    Making comparisons with bar graphs 123

    Honing in on histograms 126

    Looking at line graphs 127

    Perusing stem-and-leaf plots 130

    Clarifying circle graphs (also known as pie charts) 130

    Venturing into Venn diagrams 131

    Taking on Data Sufficiency Questions 133

    You don't need the solution to find the answer 133

    Steps to approaching data sufficiency questions 134

    Block 5: Taking a (Shortened) Practice Test 139

    Section 1: Data Insights 140

    Section 2: Quantitative 145

    Section 3: Verbal 148

    Answer and Explanations 152

    Section 1: Data Insights 152

    Section 2: Quantitative 155

    Section 3: Verbal 159

    Answer Key 162

    Block 6: Ten Tips for Scoring Higher on the GMAT 163

    Pace Yourself 163

    Guess and Move On 164

    Take Advantage of the Review and Edit Option 164

    Finish It! Completing Each Section 164

    Give Each Question Equal Treatment 165

    Make Time for the Last Ten Questions 165

    Use the Process of Elimination to Improve Your Odds 166

    Maintain Your Focus 166

    Take Time to Read the Questions 166

    Don't Sink All Your Time into the Hard Questions 167

    Index 169