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| 505 | 8 | |a Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book: The Online Practice -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with the GMAT -- Chapter 1 The Lowdown on the GMAT -- Knowing Why the GMAT Is Important -- Planning It Perfectly: When and How to Take the GMAT -- Choosing between taking the GMAT online or at a test center -- The GMAT online exam -- The GMAT at a testing center -- When to register for and take the GMAT -- Registering when you're ready -- Scheduling for success -- Things to take to the GMAT testing center (or to have at home) -- Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT -- Examining the structure of the GMAT -- Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests -- Leveraging your data literacy skills -- Quizzing your quantitative skills -- Validating your verbal skills -- Understanding the computerized format -- Answering in an orderly fashion -- Observing time limits -- Honing your computer skills for the GMAT -- Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations -- How the GMAT testers figure your score -- How the GMAT testers report your score -- What about canceling your GMAT scores? -- Repeating the Process: Retaking the GMAT -- Chapter 2 Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT -- Discovering Strategies for Boosting Your Score -- Forcing yourself to guess so you can move on -- Taking advantage of the review and edit feature -- Understanding the importance of completing each section -- Winning the Race against the Clock -- Giving each question equal treatment -- Making time for the last ten questions -- Keeping track of your pace -- Getting Rid of Wrong Answers -- Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format -- Recognizing wrong answers -- Using common sense -- Relying on what you know | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Letting the question guide you -- Dealing with questions that contain Roman numerals -- Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn't Do When Taking the Test -- Don't lose your focus -- Don't read questions at lightning speed -- Don't waste all your time on the hardest questions -- Don't cheat -- Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques -- Chapter 3 Mastering Business School Admissions -- Choosing a Business School -- Lining Up Your Ducks - Applying to Business Schools -- When to apply -- What to submit -- Crafting Effective Business School Essays -- Part 2 Creating a GMAT Study Plan -- Chapter 4 Planning Your Approach -- Using the Pre-assessment: The How-To -- Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative -- Evaluating Section 2: Verbal -- Evaluating Section 3: Data insights -- Devising a Plan of Attack -- When you have more than three months -- When you have fewer than two months -- Chapter 5 GMAT Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Chapter 6 Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Answers at a Glance -- Part 3 Vanquishing the Verbal Section -- Chapter 7 Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension -- Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like -- Approaching Reading Passages -- Mastering the message: The main point -- Absorbing the ambiance: Author's tone -- Finding the framework: The passage's outline -- Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages -- Experimenting with natural science passages -- Gathering in social circles: Social science passages -- Getting down to business passages -- Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions -- Identifying the question type -- Getting to the point: Main-idea questions | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Finding the details: Supporting information questions -- Reading between and beyond the lines: Inference and application questions -- Evaluating passage flow -- Feeling moody: Questions about the author's tone -- Eliminating answer choices -- Dealing with exception questions -- Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations -- Reading comprehension practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 8 Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning -- Focusing on "Critical" Concepts: An Overview -- Understanding the structure of the questions -- Figuring out how to answer the questions -- Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic -- Fighting fair: The elements of an argument -- Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning -- Elementary, my dear Watson: Deductive reasoning -- Perhaps I'm just generalizing: Inductive reasoning -- Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types -- Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type -- Strengthening or weakening arguments -- Analyzing analogy arguments -- Considering cause-and-effect arguments -- Taking a stab at statistical arguments -- Dabbling in deductive-reasoning arguments -- Delving into drawing conclusions -- Spotting those sneaky assumptions -- Using your noggin to make inferences -- Pondering the paradox -- Making your way through method-of- reasoning questions -- Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations -- Critical reasoning practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 9 Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section -- Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions -- Understanding What's Right with Answer Explanations -- Part 4 Conquering the Quantitative Section -- Chapter 10 Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations -- Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers -- It's Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing -- Putting two and two together: Addition -- Depleting the supply: Subtraction -- Increasing by leaps and bounds: Multiplication -- Sharing the wealth: Division -- A balancing act: Operations with even and odd numbers -- Checking out the real estate: Fundamental concepts of real numbers -- Not all things are equal: Comparing real numbers -- Absolutes do exist: Absolute value -- Half empty or half full: Positive and negative numbers -- Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents -- Adding and subtracting with exponents -- Multiplying and dividing with exponents -- Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 -- Dealing with fractional exponents -- Working with negative exponents -- Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots -- Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally -- Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents -- Dealing with decimals -- Delving into fractions -- Adding and subtracting fractions -- Multiplying and dividing fractions -- Calculating percent change -- Taking it further: Repeated percent change -- Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions -- Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation -- Chapter 11 Considering All the Variables: Algebra -- Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terminology -- Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants -- Coming together: Terms and expressions -- Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions -- Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations -- Adding to and taking away -- Multiplying and dividing expressions -- Distributing terms -- Stacking terms -- Taking a shine to the FOIL method -- Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials -- Something in common: Finding common factors -- Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials -- Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions -- Standing in: Understanding function terminology | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions -- Mastering the territory: Domain -- Roaming the land: Range -- Getting in line: Sequences and series -- Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving -- Isolating the variable: Linear equations with one unknown -- Being absolutely positive: Absolute value equations -- Getting in sync: Simultaneous equations -- Not playing fair: Inequalities -- Performing operations with linear inequalities -- Working with intervals of numbers -- Solving absolute value inequalities -- Solving quadratic equations -- Factoring to find x -- Determining solutions for the difference of two squares -- Using the quadratic formula -- Reading between the lines: Word problems -- Burning the midnight oil: Work problems -- Going the distance: Distance problems -- Mixing it up: Mixture problems -- Catching a break: Break-even problems -- Seeing Is Believing: The Coordinate Plane -- Getting the plane truth: Coordinate plane terminology -- Getting to the point? Finding the coordinates -- Dividing the territory: Identifying quadrants -- Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations -- Taking a "peak": The slope of a line -- The formula for slope -- Types of slope -- Using the slope-intercept form for linear equations -- Chapter 12 Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets -- Joining a Clique: Groups -- Setting Up Sets -- Set terminology -- Getting a visual: Venn diagrams -- Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations -- Counting without listing -- Positioning with permutations -- Coming together: Combinations -- Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode -- Summing it up mean-ingfully -- Feeling median-ly split -- Modeling the mode -- Tuning into the frequencies -- Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation -- Scouting out the range -- Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation | |
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| contents | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book: The Online Practice -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with the GMAT -- Chapter 1 The Lowdown on the GMAT -- Knowing Why the GMAT Is Important -- Planning It Perfectly: When and How to Take the GMAT -- Choosing between taking the GMAT online or at a test center -- The GMAT online exam -- The GMAT at a testing center -- When to register for and take the GMAT -- Registering when you're ready -- Scheduling for success -- Things to take to the GMAT testing center (or to have at home) -- Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT -- Examining the structure of the GMAT -- Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests -- Leveraging your data literacy skills -- Quizzing your quantitative skills -- Validating your verbal skills -- Understanding the computerized format -- Answering in an orderly fashion -- Observing time limits -- Honing your computer skills for the GMAT -- Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations -- How the GMAT testers figure your score -- How the GMAT testers report your score -- What about canceling your GMAT scores? -- Repeating the Process: Retaking the GMAT -- Chapter 2 Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT -- Discovering Strategies for Boosting Your Score -- Forcing yourself to guess so you can move on -- Taking advantage of the review and edit feature -- Understanding the importance of completing each section -- Winning the Race against the Clock -- Giving each question equal treatment -- Making time for the last ten questions -- Keeping track of your pace -- Getting Rid of Wrong Answers -- Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format -- Recognizing wrong answers -- Using common sense -- Relying on what you know Letting the question guide you -- Dealing with questions that contain Roman numerals -- Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn't Do When Taking the Test -- Don't lose your focus -- Don't read questions at lightning speed -- Don't waste all your time on the hardest questions -- Don't cheat -- Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques -- Chapter 3 Mastering Business School Admissions -- Choosing a Business School -- Lining Up Your Ducks - Applying to Business Schools -- When to apply -- What to submit -- Crafting Effective Business School Essays -- Part 2 Creating a GMAT Study Plan -- Chapter 4 Planning Your Approach -- Using the Pre-assessment: The How-To -- Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative -- Evaluating Section 2: Verbal -- Evaluating Section 3: Data insights -- Devising a Plan of Attack -- When you have more than three months -- When you have fewer than two months -- Chapter 5 GMAT Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Chapter 6 Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Answers at a Glance -- Part 3 Vanquishing the Verbal Section -- Chapter 7 Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension -- Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like -- Approaching Reading Passages -- Mastering the message: The main point -- Absorbing the ambiance: Author's tone -- Finding the framework: The passage's outline -- Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages -- Experimenting with natural science passages -- Gathering in social circles: Social science passages -- Getting down to business passages -- Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions -- Identifying the question type -- Getting to the point: Main-idea questions Finding the details: Supporting information questions -- Reading between and beyond the lines: Inference and application questions -- Evaluating passage flow -- Feeling moody: Questions about the author's tone -- Eliminating answer choices -- Dealing with exception questions -- Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations -- Reading comprehension practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 8 Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning -- Focusing on "Critical" Concepts: An Overview -- Understanding the structure of the questions -- Figuring out how to answer the questions -- Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic -- Fighting fair: The elements of an argument -- Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning -- Elementary, my dear Watson: Deductive reasoning -- Perhaps I'm just generalizing: Inductive reasoning -- Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types -- Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type -- Strengthening or weakening arguments -- Analyzing analogy arguments -- Considering cause-and-effect arguments -- Taking a stab at statistical arguments -- Dabbling in deductive-reasoning arguments -- Delving into drawing conclusions -- Spotting those sneaky assumptions -- Using your noggin to make inferences -- Pondering the paradox -- Making your way through method-of- reasoning questions -- Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations -- Critical reasoning practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 9 Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section -- Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions -- Understanding What's Right with Answer Explanations -- Part 4 Conquering the Quantitative Section -- Chapter 10 Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations -- Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers -- It's Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing -- Putting two and two together: Addition -- Depleting the supply: Subtraction -- Increasing by leaps and bounds: Multiplication -- Sharing the wealth: Division -- A balancing act: Operations with even and odd numbers -- Checking out the real estate: Fundamental concepts of real numbers -- Not all things are equal: Comparing real numbers -- Absolutes do exist: Absolute value -- Half empty or half full: Positive and negative numbers -- Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents -- Adding and subtracting with exponents -- Multiplying and dividing with exponents -- Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 -- Dealing with fractional exponents -- Working with negative exponents -- Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots -- Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally -- Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents -- Dealing with decimals -- Delving into fractions -- Adding and subtracting fractions -- Multiplying and dividing fractions -- Calculating percent change -- Taking it further: Repeated percent change -- Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions -- Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation -- Chapter 11 Considering All the Variables: Algebra -- Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terminology -- Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants -- Coming together: Terms and expressions -- Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions -- Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations -- Adding to and taking away -- Multiplying and dividing expressions -- Distributing terms -- Stacking terms -- Taking a shine to the FOIL method -- Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials -- Something in common: Finding common factors -- Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials -- Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions -- Standing in: Understanding function terminology Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions -- Mastering the territory: Domain -- Roaming the land: Range -- Getting in line: Sequences and series -- Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving -- Isolating the variable: Linear equations with one unknown -- Being absolutely positive: Absolute value equations -- Getting in sync: Simultaneous equations -- Not playing fair: Inequalities -- Performing operations with linear inequalities -- Working with intervals of numbers -- Solving absolute value inequalities -- Solving quadratic equations -- Factoring to find x -- Determining solutions for the difference of two squares -- Using the quadratic formula -- Reading between the lines: Word problems -- Burning the midnight oil: Work problems -- Going the distance: Distance problems -- Mixing it up: Mixture problems -- Catching a break: Break-even problems -- Seeing Is Believing: The Coordinate Plane -- Getting the plane truth: Coordinate plane terminology -- Getting to the point? Finding the coordinates -- Dividing the territory: Identifying quadrants -- Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations -- Taking a "peak": The slope of a line -- The formula for slope -- Types of slope -- Using the slope-intercept form for linear equations -- Chapter 12 Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets -- Joining a Clique: Groups -- Setting Up Sets -- Set terminology -- Getting a visual: Venn diagrams -- Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations -- Counting without listing -- Positioning with permutations -- Coming together: Combinations -- Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode -- Summing it up mean-ingfully -- Feeling median-ly split -- Modeling the mode -- Tuning into the frequencies -- Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation -- Scouting out the range -- Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation Predicting the Future: Probability |
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| spelling | Hatch, Lisa Zimmer Verfasser aut GMAT Prep 2024/2025 for Dummies with Online Practice (GMAT Focus Edition) 11th ed Newark John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated 2023 ©2023 1 Online-Ressource (355 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book: The Online Practice -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with the GMAT -- Chapter 1 The Lowdown on the GMAT -- Knowing Why the GMAT Is Important -- Planning It Perfectly: When and How to Take the GMAT -- Choosing between taking the GMAT online or at a test center -- The GMAT online exam -- The GMAT at a testing center -- When to register for and take the GMAT -- Registering when you're ready -- Scheduling for success -- Things to take to the GMAT testing center (or to have at home) -- Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT -- Examining the structure of the GMAT -- Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests -- Leveraging your data literacy skills -- Quizzing your quantitative skills -- Validating your verbal skills -- Understanding the computerized format -- Answering in an orderly fashion -- Observing time limits -- Honing your computer skills for the GMAT -- Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations -- How the GMAT testers figure your score -- How the GMAT testers report your score -- What about canceling your GMAT scores? -- Repeating the Process: Retaking the GMAT -- Chapter 2 Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT -- Discovering Strategies for Boosting Your Score -- Forcing yourself to guess so you can move on -- Taking advantage of the review and edit feature -- Understanding the importance of completing each section -- Winning the Race against the Clock -- Giving each question equal treatment -- Making time for the last ten questions -- Keeping track of your pace -- Getting Rid of Wrong Answers -- Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format -- Recognizing wrong answers -- Using common sense -- Relying on what you know Letting the question guide you -- Dealing with questions that contain Roman numerals -- Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn't Do When Taking the Test -- Don't lose your focus -- Don't read questions at lightning speed -- Don't waste all your time on the hardest questions -- Don't cheat -- Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques -- Chapter 3 Mastering Business School Admissions -- Choosing a Business School -- Lining Up Your Ducks - Applying to Business Schools -- When to apply -- What to submit -- Crafting Effective Business School Essays -- Part 2 Creating a GMAT Study Plan -- Chapter 4 Planning Your Approach -- Using the Pre-assessment: The How-To -- Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative -- Evaluating Section 2: Verbal -- Evaluating Section 3: Data insights -- Devising a Plan of Attack -- When you have more than three months -- When you have fewer than two months -- Chapter 5 GMAT Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Chapter 6 Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Answers at a Glance -- Part 3 Vanquishing the Verbal Section -- Chapter 7 Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension -- Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like -- Approaching Reading Passages -- Mastering the message: The main point -- Absorbing the ambiance: Author's tone -- Finding the framework: The passage's outline -- Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages -- Experimenting with natural science passages -- Gathering in social circles: Social science passages -- Getting down to business passages -- Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions -- Identifying the question type -- Getting to the point: Main-idea questions Finding the details: Supporting information questions -- Reading between and beyond the lines: Inference and application questions -- Evaluating passage flow -- Feeling moody: Questions about the author's tone -- Eliminating answer choices -- Dealing with exception questions -- Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations -- Reading comprehension practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 8 Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning -- Focusing on "Critical" Concepts: An Overview -- Understanding the structure of the questions -- Figuring out how to answer the questions -- Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic -- Fighting fair: The elements of an argument -- Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning -- Elementary, my dear Watson: Deductive reasoning -- Perhaps I'm just generalizing: Inductive reasoning -- Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types -- Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type -- Strengthening or weakening arguments -- Analyzing analogy arguments -- Considering cause-and-effect arguments -- Taking a stab at statistical arguments -- Dabbling in deductive-reasoning arguments -- Delving into drawing conclusions -- Spotting those sneaky assumptions -- Using your noggin to make inferences -- Pondering the paradox -- Making your way through method-of- reasoning questions -- Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations -- Critical reasoning practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 9 Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section -- Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions -- Understanding What's Right with Answer Explanations -- Part 4 Conquering the Quantitative Section -- Chapter 10 Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations -- Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers -- It's Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing -- Putting two and two together: Addition -- Depleting the supply: Subtraction -- Increasing by leaps and bounds: Multiplication -- Sharing the wealth: Division -- A balancing act: Operations with even and odd numbers -- Checking out the real estate: Fundamental concepts of real numbers -- Not all things are equal: Comparing real numbers -- Absolutes do exist: Absolute value -- Half empty or half full: Positive and negative numbers -- Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents -- Adding and subtracting with exponents -- Multiplying and dividing with exponents -- Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 -- Dealing with fractional exponents -- Working with negative exponents -- Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots -- Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally -- Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents -- Dealing with decimals -- Delving into fractions -- Adding and subtracting fractions -- Multiplying and dividing fractions -- Calculating percent change -- Taking it further: Repeated percent change -- Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions -- Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation -- Chapter 11 Considering All the Variables: Algebra -- Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terminology -- Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants -- Coming together: Terms and expressions -- Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions -- Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations -- Adding to and taking away -- Multiplying and dividing expressions -- Distributing terms -- Stacking terms -- Taking a shine to the FOIL method -- Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials -- Something in common: Finding common factors -- Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials -- Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions -- Standing in: Understanding function terminology Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions -- Mastering the territory: Domain -- Roaming the land: Range -- Getting in line: Sequences and series -- Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving -- Isolating the variable: Linear equations with one unknown -- Being absolutely positive: Absolute value equations -- Getting in sync: Simultaneous equations -- Not playing fair: Inequalities -- Performing operations with linear inequalities -- Working with intervals of numbers -- Solving absolute value inequalities -- Solving quadratic equations -- Factoring to find x -- Determining solutions for the difference of two squares -- Using the quadratic formula -- Reading between the lines: Word problems -- Burning the midnight oil: Work problems -- Going the distance: Distance problems -- Mixing it up: Mixture problems -- Catching a break: Break-even problems -- Seeing Is Believing: The Coordinate Plane -- Getting the plane truth: Coordinate plane terminology -- Getting to the point? Finding the coordinates -- Dividing the territory: Identifying quadrants -- Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations -- Taking a "peak": The slope of a line -- The formula for slope -- Types of slope -- Using the slope-intercept form for linear equations -- Chapter 12 Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets -- Joining a Clique: Groups -- Setting Up Sets -- Set terminology -- Getting a visual: Venn diagrams -- Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations -- Counting without listing -- Positioning with permutations -- Coming together: Combinations -- Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode -- Summing it up mean-ingfully -- Feeling median-ly split -- Modeling the mode -- Tuning into the frequencies -- Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation -- Scouting out the range -- Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation Predicting the Future: Probability Management-Examinations Business-Examinations Universities and colleges-Entrance examinations Hatch, Scott A. Sonstige oth McCune, Sandra Luna Sonstige oth Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hatch, Lisa Zimmer GMAT Prep 2024/2025 for Dummies with Online Practice (GMAT Focus Edition) Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2023 9781394183364 |
| spellingShingle | Hatch, Lisa Zimmer GMAT Prep 2024/2025 for Dummies with Online Practice (GMAT Focus Edition) Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book: The Online Practice -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with the GMAT -- Chapter 1 The Lowdown on the GMAT -- Knowing Why the GMAT Is Important -- Planning It Perfectly: When and How to Take the GMAT -- Choosing between taking the GMAT online or at a test center -- The GMAT online exam -- The GMAT at a testing center -- When to register for and take the GMAT -- Registering when you're ready -- Scheduling for success -- Things to take to the GMAT testing center (or to have at home) -- Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT -- Examining the structure of the GMAT -- Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests -- Leveraging your data literacy skills -- Quizzing your quantitative skills -- Validating your verbal skills -- Understanding the computerized format -- Answering in an orderly fashion -- Observing time limits -- Honing your computer skills for the GMAT -- Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations -- How the GMAT testers figure your score -- How the GMAT testers report your score -- What about canceling your GMAT scores? -- Repeating the Process: Retaking the GMAT -- Chapter 2 Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT -- Discovering Strategies for Boosting Your Score -- Forcing yourself to guess so you can move on -- Taking advantage of the review and edit feature -- Understanding the importance of completing each section -- Winning the Race against the Clock -- Giving each question equal treatment -- Making time for the last ten questions -- Keeping track of your pace -- Getting Rid of Wrong Answers -- Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format -- Recognizing wrong answers -- Using common sense -- Relying on what you know Letting the question guide you -- Dealing with questions that contain Roman numerals -- Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn't Do When Taking the Test -- Don't lose your focus -- Don't read questions at lightning speed -- Don't waste all your time on the hardest questions -- Don't cheat -- Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques -- Chapter 3 Mastering Business School Admissions -- Choosing a Business School -- Lining Up Your Ducks - Applying to Business Schools -- When to apply -- What to submit -- Crafting Effective Business School Essays -- Part 2 Creating a GMAT Study Plan -- Chapter 4 Planning Your Approach -- Using the Pre-assessment: The How-To -- Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative -- Evaluating Section 2: Verbal -- Evaluating Section 3: Data insights -- Devising a Plan of Attack -- When you have more than three months -- When you have fewer than two months -- Chapter 5 GMAT Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Chapter 6 Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment -- Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning -- Section 2: Verbal -- Section 3: Data Insights -- Answers at a Glance -- Part 3 Vanquishing the Verbal Section -- Chapter 7 Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension -- Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like -- Approaching Reading Passages -- Mastering the message: The main point -- Absorbing the ambiance: Author's tone -- Finding the framework: The passage's outline -- Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages -- Experimenting with natural science passages -- Gathering in social circles: Social science passages -- Getting down to business passages -- Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions -- Identifying the question type -- Getting to the point: Main-idea questions Finding the details: Supporting information questions -- Reading between and beyond the lines: Inference and application questions -- Evaluating passage flow -- Feeling moody: Questions about the author's tone -- Eliminating answer choices -- Dealing with exception questions -- Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations -- Reading comprehension practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 8 Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning -- Focusing on "Critical" Concepts: An Overview -- Understanding the structure of the questions -- Figuring out how to answer the questions -- Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic -- Fighting fair: The elements of an argument -- Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning -- Elementary, my dear Watson: Deductive reasoning -- Perhaps I'm just generalizing: Inductive reasoning -- Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types -- Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type -- Strengthening or weakening arguments -- Analyzing analogy arguments -- Considering cause-and-effect arguments -- Taking a stab at statistical arguments -- Dabbling in deductive-reasoning arguments -- Delving into drawing conclusions -- Spotting those sneaky assumptions -- Using your noggin to make inferences -- Pondering the paradox -- Making your way through method-of- reasoning questions -- Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations -- Critical reasoning practice questions -- Answer Explanations -- Chapter 9 Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section -- Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions -- Understanding What's Right with Answer Explanations -- Part 4 Conquering the Quantitative Section -- Chapter 10 Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations -- Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers -- It's Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing -- Putting two and two together: Addition -- Depleting the supply: Subtraction -- Increasing by leaps and bounds: Multiplication -- Sharing the wealth: Division -- A balancing act: Operations with even and odd numbers -- Checking out the real estate: Fundamental concepts of real numbers -- Not all things are equal: Comparing real numbers -- Absolutes do exist: Absolute value -- Half empty or half full: Positive and negative numbers -- Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents -- Adding and subtracting with exponents -- Multiplying and dividing with exponents -- Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 -- Dealing with fractional exponents -- Working with negative exponents -- Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots -- Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally -- Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents -- Dealing with decimals -- Delving into fractions -- Adding and subtracting fractions -- Multiplying and dividing fractions -- Calculating percent change -- Taking it further: Repeated percent change -- Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions -- Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation -- Chapter 11 Considering All the Variables: Algebra -- Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terminology -- Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants -- Coming together: Terms and expressions -- Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions -- Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations -- Adding to and taking away -- Multiplying and dividing expressions -- Distributing terms -- Stacking terms -- Taking a shine to the FOIL method -- Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials -- Something in common: Finding common factors -- Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials -- Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions -- Standing in: Understanding function terminology Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions -- Mastering the territory: Domain -- Roaming the land: Range -- Getting in line: Sequences and series -- Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving -- Isolating the variable: Linear equations with one unknown -- Being absolutely positive: Absolute value equations -- Getting in sync: Simultaneous equations -- Not playing fair: Inequalities -- Performing operations with linear inequalities -- Working with 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