The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition
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Compiler: Graduate Management Admission CouncilEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-01
ISBN: 0976570904
Number of pages: 832
Publisher: Graduate Management Admission Council
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Book Review: Actual Questions From Past Exams- Invaluable Preparation Material
Summary: 5 Stars
After searching high and low, this official guide should be your ultimate resource for actual questions from past GMAT exams. Other guides from Princeton Review, ARCO, and Kaplan come close, but you should really test yourself on the real thing. One good advice is to sit down and actual time yourself like in the real exam setting. This means that you move from one problem to another without going back to review your answered questions. The actual exam will not be paper-based but you can simulate by moving forward only. This is a computer adaptative exam so your responses determine the difficulty of the following question. Therefore, you can only progress forward since these questions try to mimic this by placing more difficult questions at the end (assuming you get the easy ones right). So, don't cheat yourself by going back and forth on questions since you cannot do this on exam day.
The book consists of a diagnostic exam with various practice problems for verbal (sentence correction, reading comprehension, critical reasoning)and math (problem solving, data sufficiency). For the essay portion, there are several topics to choose from but you can't really grade yourself. Your best bet is to just read through some examples to get an idea of how is it graded. Also, review and review your mistakes and then revisit them later when you have purged your memory of the correct answers. GMAT will give you access to PowerPrep download software (CD available as well) once you have registered for exam appointment. I would recommend that you save this for the very end. Once you feel more confident, you can get a real assessment of how you will perform on a computer-adaptative GMAT exam. Good luck and keep this book close to you. It will definitely provide you with the best preparation for GMAT exam.
Here is my experience in a nutshell: Kaplan visited my school and gave a practice exam on Saturday. I did average but not spectacular (don't get overly depressed over it, people always improve after practice). Two years later, I practiced with Kaplan book and this official GMAT book. I took another practice exam at Kaplan prep center. My score improved by 40 points. Later that month, I took the GMAT exam and my score increased another 10 points (total of 50 point improvement). Also, I did decent on the essay portion after just practice on some sample question. I just typed up my response in MS Word to an essay question from this official GMAT book. Now, I don't know what other people would expect in terms of improvement. But, you should not expect miracles like 100 point increase after tons of practice. Well, if this happens to you, then I guess that you have been extremely lucky and no need to go crazy for that perfect 800 score (unless you have a really big ego). If you are like the rest of us, then just moving up by a few points at a time is a very good sign of your preparation. I would just set my goal each day and don't stress over dismal scores. Just focus on where to improve like on critical reasoning, reading comprehension, etc. Plus, read over the explanations carefully since it goes over how to eliminate the obvious wrong choices. It just makes life alot easier when you can eliminate it down to just a couple good choices. Anyways, enough of the lecturing and get your butt in the library quiet room with this book.
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