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    GMAT Prep 2024/2025 for [4 ® dummies % A Wiley Brand bow 8,.94 3 Practice _ \ b=) Tests Online had Expert Strategies Va “ 100 Flashcards : Study Plans \ y \ S&S 2 z= — Lisa Zimmer Hatch, MA . Scott A. Hatch, JD Sandra Luna VI% + studyxy

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    S with Online Practice by Lisa Zimmer Hatch, MA, Scott A. Hatch, JD, and Sandra Luna McCune, PhD dummies

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    GMAT® Prep 2024/2025 For Dummies® with Online Practice Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, ww. wi ley .com Copyright © 2023 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http: //www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and may not be used without written permission. GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admission Council™. The Graduate Management Admission Council does not endorse and is not affiliated with the owner or content of GMAT® Prep 2024/2025 For Dummies®, with Online Practice. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor ‘mentioned in this book. LIMIT OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: WHILE THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHORS HAVE USED THEIR BEST EFFORTS IN PREPARING THIS WORK, THEY MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS WORK AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO WARRANTY MAY BE CREATED OR EXTENDED BY SALES REPRESENTATIVES, WRITTEN SALES MATERIALS OR PROMOTIONAL STATEMENTS FOR THIS WORK. THE FACT THAT AN ORGANIZATION, WEBSITE, OR PRODUCT IS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK AS A CITATION AAND/OR POTENTIAL SOURCE OF FURTHER INFORMATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHORS ENDORSE. THE INFORMATION OR SERVICES THE ORGANIZATION, WEBSITE, OR PRODUCT MAY PROVIDE OR RECOMMENDATIONS IT MAY MAKE. THIS WORK IS SOLD WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PUBLISHER IS NOT ENGAGED IN RENDERING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. THE ADVICE AND STRATEGIES CONTAINED HEREIN MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUR SITUATION. YOU SHOULD CONSULT WITH A SPECIALIST WHERE APPROPRIATE. FURTHER, READERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT WEBSITES LISTED IN THIS WORK MAY HAVE CHANGED OR DISAPPEARED BETWEEN WHEN THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN AND WHEN IT 1S READ. NEITHER THE PUBLISHER NOR AUTHORS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR OTHER DAMAGES. For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 877-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002. For technical support, please visit https: //hub.wiley com/community/support/dummies. Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand. Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-on-demand. If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http: //booksupport.. wiley com. For more information about Wiley products, visit www wi ley . com. Library of Congress Control Number: 2023935196 ISBN 978-1-394-18336-4 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-394-18338-8 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-394-18340-1 (ebk) | — StudyXY

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    Introduction... Part 1: Getting Started withthe GMAT......................................5 cHapTer 1: The Lowdown onthe GMAT Lo... 7 cHapTER 22 Maximizing Your Scoreonthe GMAT... 17 cHapTER 3: Mastering Business School Admissions ...............................ll029 Part 2: Creatinga GMAT Study Plan ........................................35 cHapTEr 4: Planning Your Approach ............. oo 37 cHAPTER 5: GMAT Practice ASS@SSMeNt. ..........oiiiiiieiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeinnn... 43 cHapTEr 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment ................................55 Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section .....................................67 cuapter 7: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension ..........................69 cater 8: Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning ...............................91 cHapTEr 9: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section..............................119 Part 4: Conquering the Quantitative Section .............................133 cHAPTER 10: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations ...............................135 chapter 11: Considering All the Variables: Algebra. .........................................157 cHaPTER 12: Manipulating Numbers: Statisticsand Sets .....................................191 CHAPTER 13: Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions .........................209 CHAPTER 14: Prove Your Prowess: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section ..........................217 Part 5: Excelling on the Data Insights Section ............................229 cHapTER 15: Four Types of Distinctive Data Insights Questions ...............................231 chapter 16: Deciphering Data in Graphics. ......................o LLL 247 cHaPTER 17: Enough’s Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions. ..................................259 Part 6: Practice Makes Perfect.............................................o" CHAPTER 18: GMAT Practice Test. .......oviiiiiiiiii ieee ieee 273 CHAPTER 19: Practice Test Answers and Explanations. .....................................0.291 Part7:ThePartof Tens.....................................................307 cHAPTER 20: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At .................................309 cHapTER 21: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School ...............313 Index... 317 | v 1 StudyXY

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    INTRODUCTION... About This BOOK... ooiiii en Foolish Assumptions. ................. iii 2 Icons Used in This BOOK +... ..oiiiie tiie 2 Beyond the Book: The Online Practice... .......................................3 Where to GofromHere ................ooiiiii nl 3 PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH THEGMAT..............................5 curren: The LowdownontheGMAT..........................................7 Knowing Why the GMAT Is Important ....................ocooiiiiienenao.. 7 Planning It Perfectly: When and How to Take the GMAT. .........................8 Choosing between taking the GMAT online or at a test center .................8 When to register for and take the GMAT. ...................................9 Things to take to the GMAT testing center (or to have athome)...............10 Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT ........................... 1 Examining the structure of the GMAT .....................................12 Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests .................................12 Understanding the computerized format ..................................13 Honing your computer skills for the GMAT .................................14 Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations ............................14 How the GMAT testers figureyourscore...........................oo...... 14 How the GMAT testers report your score ...................ccoeveennon....14 What about canceling your GMAT scores?. ....................covveen..... 15 Repeating the Process: Retakingthe GMAT. ...................................15 cuarrer2z Maximizing Your Scoreonthe GMAT...............................17 Discovering Strategies for Boosting Your Score ................................17 Forcing yourself to guess soyoucanmoveon..............................18 Taking advantage of the review and edit feature............................18 Understanding the importance of completing each section...................19 Winning the Race againstthe Clock ..........................................19 Giving each question equal treatment. ....................................19 Making time for the last ten questions. ....................................20 Keeping track of your pace... 20 Getting Rid of Wrong Answers... 21 Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format. .....21 Recognizing Wrong answers. ..............oouiiiiiiinanieaiieeean.. 22 Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn't Do When Taking the Test ...........25 Don'tlose your focus... 25 Don't read questions at lightning speed ...................................26 Don't waste all your time on the hardest questions. .........................26 DOoNtCheat .. oot eee 1 26 Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques..........................26 BR | study

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    carers: Mastering Business School Admissions...........................29 Choosing a Business School. .................... o.oo 29 Lining Up Your Ducks — Applying to Business Schools. .........................31 Whentoapply ....... coo 32 What to submit ....... o.oo 32 Crafting Effective Business School Essays .....................................33 PART 2: CREATING A GMAT STUDY PLAN.................................35 euarers: Planning Your Approach.....................037 Using the Pre-assessment: The How-To. ......................................37 Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative... ......................................37 Evaluating Section 2: Verbal..............................................38 Evaluating Section 3: Data insights........................................38 Devising a Plan of Attack ..............................oll.39 When you have more than threemonths ..................................39 When you have fewer thantwomonths ...................................40 cumerers: GMAT Practice Assessment .........................................43 Section 1: QUANLItAtIVE . oo. tite i iae a eaeae a 44 Section 2: Verbal ........... ee 46 Section 3: Data Insights ............................. coool. 50 carters: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment..............55 Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning .................................0......0.55 Section 2: Verbal .............. iil. 58 Section 3: Data Insights ........................ iii... 60 Answersata Glance ............oiiiiiiiiii ee. . B6 PART 3: VANQUISHING THE VERBAL SECTION............................67 ware: NOt as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension ......69 Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like. .....70 Approaching Reading Passages. .....................coiiiiiiiiiea... 70 Mastering the message: The mainpoint...................................70 Absorbing the ambiance: Author'stone....................................71 Finding the framework: The passage’s outline ..............................71 Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages. ......................ooooein.... 72 Experimenting with natural science passages ..............................72 Gathering in social circles: Social science passages..........................73 Getting down to business passages ..........................ielll 73 Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions..............................73 Identifying the questiontype.............................ll 74 Eliminating answer choices ........................ o.oo TT Dealing with exception questions. ........................................ 78 Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations ...........80 Reading comprehension practice questions................................81 Answer Explanations. .................. co icici... 85 carers: Thinking This Through Logically: Critical Reasoning. ............91 Focusing on “Critical” Concepts: An Overview. .................................92 Understanding the structure of the questions ..............................92 Figuring out how to answer the questions .................................92 X GMAT Prep 2024/2025 For Dummies with Online Practice | \

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    Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic ...................................93 Fighting fair: The elements of anargument ................................93 Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning .........................93 Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types. ........................ooeueen......96 Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type.......................9 Strengthening or weakening arguments ..........................00..... 97 Delving into drawing conclusions ........................................100 Spotting those sneaky assumptions.........................ocoo..... 102 Using your noggin to make inferences. ...................................104 Pondering the paradox. ..........................ooiiiiiiel... L105 Making your way through method-of-reasoning questions ..................106 Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations.................108 Critical reasoning practice questions .....................................108 Answer Explanations. ............... oie. 113 carrer: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section ...........119 Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions........................120 Understanding What's Right with Answer Explanations ........................127 PART 4: CONQUERING THE QUANTITATIVE SECTION .................133 cuarter 10: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations..............135 Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers ..........................................135 It's Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations ..................coooiiiinne.... 2 137 Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing .............................137 A balancing act: Operations with even and odd numbers ...................139 Checking out the real estate: Fundamental concepts of real numbers. ........140 Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents.....................142 Adding and subtracting with exponents ......................cel.. 143 Multiplying and dividing with exponents..................................143 Figuring out the powersof Oand 1... oo. 144 Dealing with fractional exponents ...................cooiiiii... 144 Working with negative exponents. ................oooiiiiiiiiii..... 144 Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots. ..........oooiiiiieiiiiiniieeen...... 145 Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. .......................146 Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents ......................ovn...... 147 Dealing with Decimals... een... 148 Delving into fractions ................ooiiiiiiii 148 Adding and subtracting fractions .................... oo 150 Multiplying and dividing fractions. ............................ 0000150 Calculating percent change ..................cooiiiiiiiiiiiiiaein..... 152 Taking it further: Repeated percent change ...............................153 Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions .......................eee..... 154 Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation ....................................155 curren 11: Considering All the Variables: Algebra .......................... 157 Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terminology................................157 Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants ...........................158 Coming together: Terms and expressions. ................................158 Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions ...............................159 Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations.........................159 Adding to and takingaway........................ cool... 160 Multiplying and dividing expressions.....................................161 BR | study

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    Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials................................164 Something in common: Finding common factors. ..........................164 Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials. .............................165 Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions ............................oioe...... 166 Standing in: Understanding function terminology ..........................166 Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions .......................168 Getting in line: Sequences and series.....................................170 Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving. ..............................171 Isolating the variable: Linear equations with one unknown ..................171 Being absolutely positive: Absolute value equations........................173 Getting in sync: Simultaneous equations. .................................173 Not playing fair: Inequalities ............................................176 Solving quadratic equations. .................. coi. 179 Reading between the lines: Word problems ...............................181 Burning the midnight oil: Work problems. ................................182 Going the distance: Distance problems ...................................183 Mixing it up: Mixture problems..........................................184 Catching a break: Break-even problems ..................................184 Seeing Is Believing: The Coordinate Plane. ...................................185 Getting the plane truth: Coordinate plane terminology .....................185 Getting to the point? Finding the coordinates. .............................186 Dividing the territory: Identifying quadrants. ..............................186 Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations ................................187 Taking a “peak”: The slope of aline.......................................187 Using the slope-intercept form for linear equations ........................188 euarrer 122 Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets......................191 Joining a Clique: Groups... ........ooiiiii ieee. 19 Setting Up Sets. .........iiii eee... 193 Setterminology ......... coi eee... 193 Getting a visual: Venn diagrams ..............................o.....000193 Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations.......................194 Counting without listing ........................... o.oo... 195 Positioning with permutations .........................................0195 Coming together: Combinations. ........................................197 Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode .............................198 Summing itup mean-ingfully. ..................... o.oo 199 Feeling median-ly split ................................. 199 Modelingthemode....................... i. 199 Tuning into the frequencies. ............................................200 Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation ..........................201 Scouting outtherange................... ll 200 Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation. ..........................201 Predicting the Future: Probability. ..........................................203 Takingachance............................iiiiieiie......203 Fishing for acomplement...............................................203 Conditioning the probability ............................................203 Recognizing mutually exclusive events ...................................204 Gaining insight into independent and dependent events. ...................204 Juggling multiple probabilities. .................................o......205 xii GMAT Prep 2024/2025 For Dummies with Online Practice | \

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    cuarrer 13: Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions. ...209 Be Prepared: A Practice Problem Solving Plan ................................209 Trying Out Some Problem Solving Practice Problems ..........................211 Answer Explanations. ................. e224 cuarter 1: Prove Your Prowess: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section... .217 Tackling Problem Solving Practice Questions .................................218 Checking Out the Answer Explanations. ...................oiiiiiaiin. 222 PART 5: EXCELLING ON THE DATA INSIGHTS SECTION ................229 cuarrer 15: FOur Types of Distinctive Data Insights Questions .............231 Understanding What the IR Questions Are All About. ..........................231 Skills tested. . ooo 00 232 About the question types. ................... iii... 232 Approaching Each Question Type... ......234 Table analysis. .............. i... 234 Two-part analysis... eee. 237 Graphics interpretation ................... coil... 240 Multi-source reasoning. ............... oii... 242 cuarrer 16: Deciphering Data in Graphics.......................247 Mastering Graphics-Focused Questions with Five Simple Steps .................247 Translating Informationin Tables. ..........................................248 Making Comparisons with Bar Graphs.......................................249 Simple bargraphs............. L249 Graphs withmanybars.................................................250 Segmented bargraphs.................... ool 250 Honing in on Histograms .............................. coi... 252 Looking at Line Graphs.......................... oii... 252 Basiclinegraphs .................. iii... 253 Scatter plots. ........ ieee... 253 Complex scatter plots. ...............ooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieaa 254 Perusing Stem-and-Leaf Plots ..............................................255 Clarifying Circle Graphs (Also Known as Pie Charts). ...........................256 Venturing into Venn Diagrams ....................cooiiiiiiiiiiiiiao... 257 euarrer 17: ENough’s Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions. ..................259 You Don't Need the Solution to Find the Answer ..............................259 Steps to Approaching Data Sufficiency Questions. ............................260 Taking on Data Sufficiency Practice Problems ................................264 Answer Explanations. ................. iii... 266 PART 6: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT .......................................2! curren 1s: GMAT Practice Test. .................................................273 Answer Sheet. ...........ooiiiiiiiiiiiiii eee 275 Section 1: Data Insights ........................ iii... 276 Section 2: QUANItAtIVE «oo. t ett eae 277 Section 3: Verbal ........... LL. 282 Table of Contents

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