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Table of ContentsGMAT TEST RESOURCES. 5GMAT OVERVIEW . 6TESTING AND ANALYSIS. 8INTRODUCTION TO THE GMAT . 10THE GMAT SCORING SCALE . 11QUANTITATIVE TEST . 13PROBLEM-SOLVING QUESTIONS . 13DATA-SUFFICIENCY QUESTIONS . 13QUESTION TYPES . 15ARITHMETIC . 16DIVISIBILITY . 17MULTIPLICATION . 18ADDITION . 19SUBTRACTION . 19EVENS AND ODDS . 21PRIME NUMBERS . 22PERCENTS . 24SQUARE OF A NUMBER . 28EXPONENTS . 30ROOTS . 32AVERAGES . 32VERBAL TEST . 34READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS . 34What Is Measured . 35CRITICAL REASONING QUESTIONS . 35What Is Measured . 36SENTENCE CORRECTION QUESTIONS . 36What Is Measured . 37READING COMPREHENSION . 38Copyright StudyGuideZone.com. All rights reserved.2
FLYING OVER THE PASSAGE . 38CREATING A TENTATIVE SUMMARY . 39OPENINGS AND ENDINGS . 40EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION . 40USING KITCHEN LOGIC . 41GETTING INTO THE AUTHOR’S MIND . 41EMOTIONAL WORDS . 42FINDING THE KEY WORDS . 43MAKING PROPER INFERENCES . 44APPLYING IDEAS FOR GENERALIZATIONS . 45USING CONTEXT CLUES . 45BREAKING DOWN PASSAGE ORGANIZATION . 47FIRST WORD ANALYSIS . 48UNDERSTANDING THE INTIMIDATION . 49FINDING YOUR OPTIMAL PACE . 50DON’T BE A PERFECTIONIST . 51FACTUALLY CORRECT, BUT ACTUALLY WRONG . 52DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS . 53SENTENCE CORRECTION . 54TRY EVERY CHOICE . 54READ CAREFULLY . 54APOSTROPHES. 55Possessive Nouns . 55Possessive Personal Pronouns vs. Contractions . 55COMMA ERRORS . 56PROBLEMS WITH REFERENCES . 58PROBLEMS WITH AGREEMENT . 60LACK OF PARALLELISM . 63MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS . 64CRITICAL REASONING . 68IDENTIFYING PREMISES AND CONCLUSIONS . 70DIAGRAMMING CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS . 74CLASSIFICATION . 77SEVEN COMMON FALLACIES . 83ANALYTICAL WRITING TEST. 86Copyright StudyGuideZone.com. All rights reserved.3
ANALYSIS OF AN ISSUE . 86What Is Measured . 86ANALYSIS OF AN ARGUMENT . 86What Is Measured . 87PLANNING STAGE . 87STICKING TO THE PLAN. 88REVIEWING THE PLAN . 88BRAINSTORMING SMART . 88MAKING THE CUTS . 91ENDING AT THE START . 91STAYING CONSISTENT . 93MAINTAINING THE FLOW. 93BACKING UP YOUR POINTS . 94USING PROPER GRAMMAR . 95WATCHING YOUR VOCABULARY . 96AVOIDING TUNNEL VISION . 96JUST DO IT . 97CONCLUSION IS REVIEW. 98COMMUNICATING REASON, NOT PASSION . 99ANSWERING THE WHY? . 100GETTING READY FOR TEST DAY. 101POST GMAT. 103Copyright StudyGuideZone.com. All rights reserved.4
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GMAT OverviewThe Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is indeed a difficultexamination, and as such, it was required that media be chosen bywhich intellectual ability could be measured. In the case of the GMAT,math, verbal, and writing were the selected media. While there is anongoing, low-profile controversy about whether or not this test trulymeasure’s your abilities with regards to what you’ll need for graduateschool, that is not the purpose of this book. The purpose is, however,to make sure that you’re able to achieve the best possible state ofpreparation, allowing you to maximize your score potential - no matterif your actual aptitude has been measured.As no test can measure all aspects of a person’s intelligence, the GMATmeasures those skills deemed most critical to a new graduate student.Then again, if any admission test, no matter how cleverly assembles,is inherently inadequate, why perform this type of testing at all? Thisis a question posed by every student who sees the GMAT loomingahead of him/her. Nevertheless, the answer to this question is quitesimple, and quite reasonable; to make graduate school acceptance amore fair experience, by expanding the basis approval beyond yourgrades.Your GMAT score is
GMAT Overview The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is indeed a difficult examination, and as such, it was required that media be chosen by which intellectual ability could be measured. In the case of the GMAT, math, verbal, and writing were the selected media. While there is an ongoing, low-profile controversy about whether or not this test truly measure’s your abilities with .
