The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review

By GMAC

Book Overview

The only official quantitative review for the GMAT from the creators of the test Anyone preparing for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) knows it's important to study with the experts. With The Official Guide for the GMAT Quantitative Review, Second Edition , you'll get questions, answers, and explanations straight from the source. The only official quantitative review for the GMAT Exam, this book targets your study and helps you improve your quantitative skills by focusing on your ability to solve equations, interpret data, coordinate geometry, and determine probability with assurance and ease. Inside, you'll find 300 actual questions from past GMAT tests, including 75 questions new to this edition Sections on Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Problem Solving, and Data Sufficiency Questions organized in order of difficulty to save study time The Graduate Management Admission Council certifies all content so you can trust that you're getting expert guidance as you prepare for the GMAT Exam. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is the association of leading graduate business schools around the world. GMAC's mission is to meet the needs of business schools and students through a wide array of products, services, and programs. It is the owner and administrator of the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), the first and only standardized test specifically designed for graduate business and management programs. Available in nearly 100 countries, it is the global standard for entry to the MBA degree course.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470449764
• ISBN13: 9780470449769
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Required reading

If you are serious about taking the Gmat and getting a good score, you absolutely must buy this book along with the other two official supplements. Between the three books, you will have access to over 1,000 problems that have been retired from the Gmat and are 100% representative of what you are going to see come test day. My scores: Powerprep 1 (Official software) - 700 - no studying Princeton 1 - 630 Kaplan 1 - 560 Kaplan 2 - 600 Kaplan 3 - 580 Powerprep 2 - 730 Actual Gmat - 750 I am 100% certain that using all three books is what raised my score those last 50 points. On test day I was the only one at the center and I got to know the receptionist pretty well. She told me that she sees hundreds of these scores a year and the ones who get 700+ all have one thing in common - they have all done every problem in all three books. My advice: spend the money on all three. Work every problem, noting which ones are hard and which you get wrong. When you are done, go back and work the hard/incorrect problems again. Then, when you are done, start over from page one. You effort will be rewarded on test day.

A must have!

I couldn't have prepped for the GMAT without this guide. It is a "must have" for anyone who actually wants to study for the GMAT with real GMAT questions. Kaplan's questions are too hard, Barron's are just bizarre - you can rely on these questions.

Great book

You should definitely make this a part of your study plan. The book was extremely helpful to me. I found it to be an excellent refresher. The explanations in the answers were great.

I found this to be VERY helpful

While I did not compare this with other guide books, like some reviewers have, I did use it to prepare for the GMAT. There are hundreds of sample problems and the solutions and HOW the solution was arrived at. When I took the exam, there were no problems that were in a format I had not seen. Naturally, they were different, but the TYPES of problems had all been explained in the book. If - for some insane reason - I were to have to take the GMAT again, I would buy this book again. PS: I scored 90% on the quantitative (woohoo!)

Good Additional Book for Math Problems

I bought this book with the understanding that it was not a study guide. This book should be only used as an additional aid for the math section of the GMAT. This book has really great sample questions that are very similar to the questions that you will see when you take the GMAT. This booked coupled with a GMAT Review study guide, such as the books offered by the Princeton Review makes an awesome combo.