Lisa Zimmer Hatch, MA, and Scott A. Hatch, JD, have been helping students excel on standardized tests and navigate the college admissions process since 1987. They have written curricula and taught students internationally through live lectures, online forums, DVDs, and independent study, and have authored numerous test-prep texts. Sandra Luna McCune, PhD, is professor emeritus and a former Regents professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. She’s currently a full-time author and math/statistics consultant.

• 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