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Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with the GMAT 5Chapter 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7Chapter 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17Chapter 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 27Part 2: Creating a GMAT Study Plan 33Chapter 4: Planning Your Approach 35Chapter 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 41Chapter 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 55Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 71Chapter 7: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 73Chapter 8: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 95Chapter 9: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 117Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 143Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 159Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 161Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 165Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 173Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 181Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 189Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 191Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 213Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 237Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 257Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 271Chapter 20: It's All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 287Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 305Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 323Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 325Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 341Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 353Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 355Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 381Part 8: The Part of Tens 409Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At 411Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 415Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 419Index 423