Test Your Skills GMAT Preparation

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Test Your Skills GMAT Preparation

Test Your Skills
What are your strengths on the exam, and where do you need improvement? Here you can hone your skills using sample GMAT questions provided by McGraw-Hill Professional

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May 12, 2008

Preparing for the GMAT Verbal
Word challenged? Here are some tips for improving your score on the verbal portion of the Graduate Management Admissions Test

Plus: GMAT Tips: The Numbers Game
Plus: More GMAT Prep
May 12, 2008

GMAT Tips: The Numbers Game
Experts offer advice on improving your score on the business-school admissions test's quantitative section

Plus: GMAT Prep
May 12, 2008

GMAT: Paying for Points
Test-prep services can be a big help as applicants prepare for the B-school admissions exam. Here, a rundown of some well-known players

May 12, 2008

Achieving Your Goals on the GMAT
The best way to develop the necessary skills to do well on the GMAT: Lots of practice

May 12, 2008

Navigating the GMAT Data Sufficiency Maze
Data sufficiency questions all seek to determine the same thing: Can you answer the question with the information you've been given?

May 12, 2008

Getting a Grip on Critical Reasoning
These GMAT questions can be pretty tough, but it helps to know some of the common tactics used to come up with the incorrect answers

May 12, 2008

Master the Analytical Writing Assessment
You don't have to be a great writer to get a good score, but you do need to communicate effectively

May 12, 2008

Choosing a Business School
Should you or shouldn't you? Here are some tips on making the choice to go to business school

May 12, 2008

Essential Tools for the MBA Student
The four can't-do-without items for B-schoolers

May 12, 2008

Acing the Recruiting Process
Here are some tips to keep in mind to help you snag that all-important job offer

May 12, 2008

Honing Your GMAT Strategy
Strategies for preparing depend on how long you have before the test. Here's how to make a plan

May 12, 2008

Test-Day Tactics
Here are a half-dozen tips to make taking the GMAT less stressful

May 12, 2008

GRE Eyes GMAT's Testing Turf
Can an alternative entrance exam break the GMAT monopoly at top business schools? The group behind the GRE is giving it a try
source:business week

 

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Re: Achieving Your Goals on the GMAT

Achieving Your Goals on the GMAT
The best way to develop the necessary skills to do well on the GMAT: Lots of practice
B-Schools

Welcome to the GMAT. To many business-school applicants, the test appears to be the most painful hurdle they must clear in their admissions process, and the one for which their work experience has left them the least prepared.

Your success on the GMAT will result from three separate types of skills, all of which can be improved through preparation:

1. GMAT skills. These allow you to find the correct answers to GMAT questions. GMAT skills include math skills (geometry, algebra, compound interest, and the like), reading skills (reading quickly and retaining information), logic skills (knowing how to break down an argument), grammar skills, and writing skills.

2. Pacing and endurance. The GMAT is both a sprint and a marathon. You have less than two minutes, on average, for each verbal question, and barely two minutes for each quantitative question.

3. Guessing technique. Everybody has to guess sometimes. What differentiates good test takers from great is the ability to guess in such a way as to maximize the chances for a correct answer.

So how do you develop these skills? Practice, practice, practice. There's no substitute for working through many, many GMAT problems.

Adapted from McGraw-Hill's GMAT, by James Hasik, Stacey Rudnick, and Ryan Hackney. Book-only and book-CD-ROM versions available wherever books are sold