The Official Guide for GMAT Review
by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)
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Manufacturer: WileyBlackwell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9781405141765
ISBN: 140514176X
Label: WileyBlackwell
Number Of Pages: 832
Publication Date: 2005-10-05
Publisher: WileyBlackwell
Studio: WileyBlackwell
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent book
Comment: This is one of the book which i think every body should use for hir GMAT exam. It can be truly said Bible of GMAT. Highly recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Must Have
Comment: The secret for the GMAT is practice and stamina.
For my own preparation, I used The Princeton Review, Kaplan's Book and ETS' The Official Guide for GMAT Review.
I will go through the advantages and disadvantages of each, and explain why The Official Guide for GMAT Review was the best of the three and why you should give it more time than the others.
Princeton:
Plus
- Good review sections (both quantitative and verbal)
- Practice tests similar to the GMAT
- Online tests are easy to review
- Provides you with a test strategy on how to crack the questions
- Explicitly advises you to practice also with The Official Guide for GMAT Review
Disadvantages
- Does not explain why a choice is wrong
- Not enough practice questions
Kaplan:
Plus
- Good quantitative review sections (appendix was great)
- Interactive software for reviewing the Kaplan GMAT strategies
- Practice tests similar to the GMAT
- Practice tests and sections are difficult, this creates in you a sense of urgency
- Plenty of practice questions
Disadvantages
- The software interface is old and slow, you are left to work with a little box on the screen
- Practice tests and sections' answer choices are not very well explained
- The questions are far fetched and do not fall in the spirit of the GMAT, this might lead you the wrong path
The Official Guide for GMAT Review:
Plus
- More than plenty of practice questions
- You might get the same or similar questions on the GMAT (like I did)
- The practice questions are organized by level of difficulty, the last ones are the most difficult
- Free PowerPrep software that has two practice tests exactly similar to the GMAT in look and feel (free online tests at the mba dot com website http://www.mba.com/mba/TaketheGMAT/Tools/PowerprepSoftware.htm)
- The practice questions reveal actual GMAT test patterns
Disadvantages
- Absence of test taking techniques
- The skills review sections are poor
- Only the last 200 questions in every practice section will be like the ones you will see on the GMAT (unless you perform poorly)
This Official Guide from GMAC should be the cornerstone of your preparation, simply because the questions are from past tests and are very thoroughly researched. This will allow you to develop insight into the test mentality.
Equally important the correct and the wrong answer choices for each question are explained in detail. You will learn the various ways used to lead you in error and consequently, you will develop the feel to spot and eliminate wrong answers.
The rules of grammar on which the GMAT Sentence Correction questions are based are best outlined in this guide. I had a lot of difficulty with the Verbal section until I read through the explanations here.
Overall, this book shows you all the tricks of the GMAT. I did not have bad surprises when I took the actual test; it seemed that I had seen all the questions before.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great study Guide
Comment: I also felt compelled to write after reading the first review. I think this book is extremely helpful! And I felt better using this book than others because it is made using real GMAT questions from past tests. So you know the material is the real thing. Apparently because it is written by the people who write the GMAT exam, it is the only study guide that can use real questions.
The diagnostic test at the front helped me to determine where I needed to spend my study time, which cut down on what I thought I needed to study.
Also, the practise questions are in order from easiest to hardest for every section, so I knew that when I started having trouble I was in a harder section. It gave me a lot of help!
My weakness is in quantitative skills, so I also purchased The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review for extra practise. The basic information in the book is the same, but the questions were again, very helpful.
Oh and there are extra score sheets in the back if you mess up or want to practise more.
If you want more practise without the answer explanations.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommended
Comment: Don’t normally write a review but seeing the comments from A Reader, I felt compelled to post one.
I found this book EXTREMELY useful because I knew that the questions were truly representative of the actual test questions, unlike those contained in other study guides. In my opinion the Official Guide is essential for GMAT preparation, and crucial for maximising your score – I managed a 720 score mainly thanks to this book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: WHAT A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: This book will give u a NIGHTMARE just like the thought of taking the exam will. I was hoping that being the OFFICIAL book of the GMAT it will be my best option for studying for the exam. The explanations for the Math problems are so vague and long without taking consideration of time constraints. I now have to shell out another £20 to buy Kaplan's book; at least it will give me indepth explanations and time friendly strategies.
If u need a lot of questions to practice with, then u can buy this book. Otherwise ITS HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!
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