Updated editions of verbal and quantitative study guides from the Graduate Management Admission Council®, creator of the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®), are now on sale in bookstores and online at www.mba.com.
McLean, Virginia (September 23, 2009)—Updated editions of verbal and quantitative study guides from the Graduate Management Admission Council®, creator of the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®), are now on sale in bookstores and online at www.mba.com.
The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review, 2nd Edition, (Wiley Paperback; August 24, 2009; $17.95) and The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review, 2nd Edition, (Wiley Paperback; September 14, 2009; $17.95) both feature more than 300 former GMAT questions, and each has 75 new practice questions.
The supplemental guides complement The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 12th Edition, which was released earlier this year and is the centerpiece of the Official Guide series. The books—the only GMAT study guides that feature past questions from the exam—include answers and thorough explanations for each question.
The Graduate Management Admission Test is the only standardized exam designed by business schools for business schools. It is used as part of the admissions process by thousands of MBA and other graduate management education programs around the world. The supplemental study guides were written and edited by the same team that develops questions for the actual GMAT exam.
The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review, 2nd Edition, is designed to help readers hone their skills for the reading comprehension, critical reasoning and sentence correction sections of the GMAT. In particular, the guide focuses on the ability to evaluate arguments and read, understand and correct written material.
The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review, 2nd Edition, provides intensive preparation for the problem solving and data sufficiency portions of the GMAT. The guide helps readers solve equations and geometry problems, interpret data and determine probability.
The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review, 2nd Edition, and The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review, 2nd Edition, are published by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC®), a nonprofit organization of leading business schools around the world that created and owns the GMAT exam. The guides are distributed by Wiley.
The Official Guide series is part of a collection of six GMAT-preparation products published by GMAC that feature past GMAT questions. In addition to the three study guides, these products include GMAT Focus, a Web-based quantitative diagnostics tool; GMAT Write, which helps people sharpen their writing skills; and a collection of paper-based GMAT exams. The products all are available for purchase at www.mba.com.
The Official Guide for GMAT® Verbal Review, 2nd Edition
Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®)
Wiley Paperback; August 24, 2009; $17.95; ISBN: 978-0-470-44975-2; 335 pages
The Official Guide for GMAT® Quantitative Review, 2nd Edition
Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®)
Wiley Paperback; September 14, 2009; $17.95; ISBN: 978-0-470-44976-9; 215 pages
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About GMAC
The Graduate Management Admission Council (www.gmac.com) is a nonprofit education organization of leading graduate business schools worldwide dedicated to creating access to and disseminating information about graduate management education. GMAC is based in McLean, Virginia, and has a European office in London.
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is used by approximately 4,700 graduate management programs at some 1,900 business schools around the world to assess applicants. The GMAT was taken a record 265,613 times during the testing year that ended June 30, 2009, and is currently available at more than 450 test centers in over 100 countries. More information about the GMAT is available at www.mba.com.