Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with the GMAT 5 Chapter 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7 Chapter 2 Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17 Chapter 3 Mastering Business School Admissions 27 Part 2: Creating a GMAT Study Plan 33 Chapter 4: Planning Your Approach 35 Chapter 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 39 Chapter 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 53 Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 69 Chapter 7: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 71 Chapter 8: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 93 Chapter 9: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 115 Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 141 Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 157 Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 159 Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 163 Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 171 Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 179 Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 187 Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 189 Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 211 Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 235 Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 255 Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 269 Chapter 20: It's All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 285 Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 303 Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 321 Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 323 Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 339 Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 351 Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 353 Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 379 Part 8: The Part of Tens 407 Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At 409 Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 413 Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 417 Index 421