GMAT For Dummies

by Scott A. Hatch

If you’re planning to apply for an MBA program, you’re required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). And you thought your days of sharpening number 2 pencils were over! How do you prepare for such a comprehensive test? Never fear. GMAT For Dummies, Fifth Edition , puts at your fingertips everything you need to know to conquer the GMAT. This highly readable, friendly guide makes the study process as painless as possible, providing you with complete math and grammar reviews and all the preparation you need to maximize your score and outsmart your competition. You’ll discover how This Fifth Edition is packed with plenty of updated practice questions so you can see just how the GMAT tests a particular concept. Our sample questions read just like the actual test questions, so you can get comfortable with the way the GMAT phrases questions and answer choices. You get plenty of tips on correctly answering the sentence correction, reading comprehension, and critical reading questions and tackling the analytical essays. There’s also a comprehensive math review of everything from number types to standard deviation and expanded coverage of statistics and probability. Each section ends with a mini practice test to prepare you for the two full-length practice tests featured in this easy-to-digest guide. You’ll see how Complete with a scoring guide, explanatory answers, timesaving tips, math formulas you should memorize, and a list of writing errors to avoid, GMAT For Dummies is all you need to practice your skills, improve your score, and pass with flying colors.

Genres: Business

384 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2006

Reviews

[Will · Rating 1 out of 5]

Update: So I bombed the exam. I don't think this material was nearly helpful as it proclaims to be. Many of the questions were more difficult that anything presented in these pages. Downgraded to 1 star.

previous 3 star review ...
I found the material to be helpful in reengaging with the quantitative and verbal concepts if you have not worked with them in a long while (which most people haven't).

Some of the items felt a bit oversimplified. I would reach chapters on statistics, etc. and then do practice problems from another source only to discover the problems were infinitely more difficult than the examples in this text. I say that not to discount what is presented but to advise that you should perhaps use this material in conjunction with another source.

I previously took a Manhattan Prep course (which can be costly) which helped set me up to absorb this information more easily and combine the two together moving forward.

I will say this really helpful with the Integrated Reasoning section as it was an extremely weak point of mine that I improved on with my practice exams.

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

To be honest, I did not get to finish this book, so I cannot offer a proper review of the entire thing. However, from what I did read, I feel like it oversimplified the tests. The essay explanation was wonderful, and the language section was good for me (I'm strong in English). The math section, however, didn't really prepare me enough. Math is my weakest subject, though, so maybe I needed more help than it could give.

Bottom line: if you need a refresher, this is a wonderful book. If you need more than a refresher, I'd seek another book or at least something else to supplement it.

[Jared · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helping me to go to school. For people who want to go to school for people want to do business good (and learn how to do other stuff good too.)

[Ruth · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one was a waste of time compared to the other GMAT study guide I used. I skimmed it in a few hours and got all I could out of it

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a comprehensive look at the tests, but a good introduction with some practice exercises.