PART ONE：GMAT Basics 3
1 Getting Started 3
Can You Prepare for the GMAT？ 3
What Is a GMAT Study Plan？ 3
Contents 3
How Can You Tell If Your Work Is Paying Off？ 4
2 All About the GMAT 5
What Is the GMAT？ 5
What Is the CAT？ 5
How Do You Register for the GMAT？ 6
What Kinds of Questions Are on the Test？ 6
How Is the Test Scored？ 8
How Is the Test Structured？ 8
What Smart Test-takers Know 10
3 GMAT Questions：A First Look 15
What Can You Expect on the Test？ 15
How Does the GMAT Test Verbal Reasoning Ability？ 16
How Does the GMAT Test Quantitative Reasoning Ability？ 21
Summing It Up：What You Must Know About the GMAT 24
PART TWO：Diagnosing Strengths and Weaknesses 27
4 Diagnostic Test 27
Answer Key 48
Explanatory Answers 49
What Is Reading Comprehension？ 65
5 Reading Comprehension 65
PART THREE：GMAT Verbal Questions 65
How Do You Answer Reading Comprehension Questions？ 69
What Smart Test-takers Know 76
6 Sentence Correction 109
What Is Sentence Correction？ 109
How Do You Answer Sentence Correction Questions？ 111
What Smart Test-takers Know 113
7 Critical Reasoning 145
What Does Critical Reasoning Test？ 145
How Do You Answer Critical Reasoning Questions？ 148
What Smart Test-takers Know 153
Summing It Up：What You Must Know About GMAT Verbal Questions 193
PART FOUR：GMAT Quantitative Questions 197
8 Problem Solving 197
What Is Problem Solving？ 197
How Do You Answer Problem-solving Questions？ 199
What Smart Test-takers Know 207
9 Data Sufficiency 243
What Is Data Sufficiency？ 243
How Do You Answer Data Sufficiency Questions？ 246
What Do the Answer Choices Mean？ 248
What Smart Test-takers Know 253
Summing It Up：What You Must Know About GMAT Quantitative Questions 282
10 Analytical Writing Assessment 285
What Is the Analytical Writing Assessment？ 285
PART FIVE：GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment 285
How Is the Assessment Graded？ 286
How Do You Handle the Analytical Writing Assessment？ 287
What Smart Test-takers Know 288
Summing It Up：What You Must Know About the Analytical Writing Assessment 292
PART SIX：Five Practice Tests 295
Practice Test 1 295
Answer Key 316
Explanatory Answers 317
Practice Test 2 329
Answer Key 351
Explanatory Answers 352
Practice Test 3 365
Answer Key 387
Explanatory Answers 388
Practice Test 4 403
Answer Key 424
Explanatory Answers 425
Final Practice Test 437
Answer Key 457
Explanatory Answers 458
PART SEVEN：GMAT Math Peview 471
11 Arithmetic 471
Operations with Integers and Decimals 471
Operations with Fractions 473
Verbal Problems Involving Fractions 477
Variation 481
Finding Percents 484
Verbal Problems Involving Percent 490
Averages 495
12 Algebra 499
Signed Numbers 499
Linear Equations 501
Exponents 505
Quadratic Equations 507
Literal Expressions 509
Roots and Radicals 512
Factoring and Algebraic Fractions 516
Problem Solving in Algebra 519
Inequalities 526
Defined Operation Problems 530
13 Geometry 532
Areas 532
Perimeters 533
Circles 534
Volumes 535
Triangles 536
Right Triangles 537
Parallel Lines 538
Polygons 539
Similar Polygons 540
Coordinate Geometry 541