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CONTENTSIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Get Ready Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

GMAT Exam Format and Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Study Smart for Your Best GMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Test Prep Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Exclusive GMAT Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

“Preparing for the GMAT puts you back in the right mind of being a student and helps you know what it’s going to take to succeed in business school.”Jay Ramsey, Class of 2013 Mason School of Business The College of William & Mary

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We hear this often from candidates who are worried they may not do as well as they like on the GMAT exam. We’re here to tell you that good test-takers aren’t born that way. They just understand how to study and prepare for the GMAT in a way that enables them to arrive on test day focused, confident, and ready to do their best.

You, too, can become a strong GMAT test taker by following the three Ps:

• Preparation:Understanding the question types, how you learn, and what to expect on test day will help you arrive relaxed and focused.

• Practice: Approaching practice tests with purpose will get you in the habit of focusing for an extended period of time.

• Pacing:Practicing at an appropriate pace will let you become accustom to the pacing of the actual exam and maintain your stamina.

INTRODUCTION

“What if I’m not a good test taker?”

If you put the time in,

you’ll do justfine.

Matt RowenczakTerry College of Business,

University of Georgia, Class of 2014

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Score your best GMAT exam with the right mindset and approach. We put together this kit to help you get GMAT ready the way strong test takers do: by following a study plan, knowing how to get the most out of practice tests, understanding how you learn, and approaching the exam with a positive attitude.

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If you get stuck on a question during the exam, take an educated guess and move on. The GMAT exam’s computer adaptive algorithm will adjust, even if

you guessed wrong. It is better to finish the exam than run out of time.

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PLANNING STUDYING FINAL PREP TESTING RESULTS

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Take a GMATPrep practice exam to identify the skills you need to study most.

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TIPS

• Start a minimum of six months before test results are due to schools.

• Plan to prepare for the GMAT in the way you learn best — classes, tutoring, study groups, or self-study.

• Retake the exam if things don’t go to plan.

• The further in advance you register the greater your choice of available dates to take the exam.

• GMAT experts recommend studying twice a week.

• Mix up different question types and exam sections in your study schedule.

• Replicate actual test conditions as you practice. Don’t use a calculator or study materials.

• Keep an eye on the clock; remember the timer turns yellow when you have five minutes or less left to complete a section.

• If you’re spending too long on a question, guess and move on.

• Study for the GMAT exam until you are comfortable with the test—question formats, test timing, and how to pace yourself.

• Pacing is important. There’s a significant penalty for not finishing the GMAT exam.

• Replicate actual test conditions, time yourself, and don’t use a calculator or study materials.

• Revisit strategies for specific question types.

• Remember to review your strong areas, and devote extra time to your weak spots.

• Plan to get a good night’s rest and review what you can and can’t take to the testing center.

• Allow extra time to get to the test center so you don’t have to rush to make your appointment.

RECOMMENDATION: Start at least 6 months before test results are due. You are the best judge of how much time you need to prepare.

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What does the GMAT exam cover?Now that you’ve had a chance to get organized, plan the steps you need to take to prepare, and start putting together your study plan. See the next page for a snapshot of what you’ll see in each section of the GMAT exam.

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TEST TIP TEASERSGMAT EXAM FORMAT AND TIMING

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WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN EACH SECTION

IntegratedReasoning Quantitative Verbal

0 – 600 – 60

YOUR ABILITY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND WRITTEN MATERIAL, EVALUATE ARGUMENTS, AND CORRECT WRITTEN MATERIAL

YOUR ABILITY TO ANALYZE DATA AND DRAW CONCLUSIONS USING BASIC MATH SKILLS

YOUR ABILITY TO EVALUATE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN MULTIPLE FORMATS FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES

READING COMPREHENSION

CRITICAL REASONING

SENTENCE CORRECTION

41 QUESTIONS

75 MINUTES

75 MINUTES

30 MINUTES

30 MINUTES

MULTI-SOURCE REASONING

GRAPHICS INTERPRETATION

TWO-PART ANALYSIS

TABLE ANALYSIS

NUMBER OF QUESTIONS

QUESTION TYPE

TIMING

WHAT IS MEASURED

SCORE

YOUR ABILITY TO THINK CRITICALLY AND COMMUNICATE YOUR IDEAS

AWA

1ESSAY

37QUESTIONS

12QUESTIONS

DATASUFFICIENCY

PROBLEMSOLVING

0 – 6(IN HALF POINT INTERVALS)

1 – 8(IN SINGLE DIGIT INTERVALS)

ANALYSIS OF AN ARGUMENT

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TEST TIP TEASERSSTUDY SMART FOR YOUR BEST GMAT

Hours Spent Preparing for the GMAT® Exam*

n 20 hours or fewern 21 to 50 hoursn 51 to 100 hoursn 101 hours or more

*N = 2,669Source: GMAC® mba.com Prospective Students Survey, 2013 data (Jan-June)

23%

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How much time should I spend studying?

When it comes to studying for the GMAT exam, there really are no secrets or tricks—just planning and preparation.

The time you should spend preparing is unique to you. However, we can tell you how much time others spend getting ready for the GMAT. Use the information below as a guideline for your own preparation.

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Average Number of Study Hours,by GMAT® Score*

*N = 2,580Source: GMAC® mba.com Prospective Students Survey, 2013 data (Jan-June)

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400 to 900 500 to 590 600 to 690 700 or higher

“Study well, but remember that you’ve probably always been nervous for tests, then probably always done just fine.”Ethan Prostrel Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Class of 2015

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The perfect can be the enemy of the good...and even the great. Finishing the GMAT exam is far more important to a good score than getting every answer correct—and risking running out of time.

“The GMAT exam has been a very solid predictor of academic success and it is certainly one of our most important factors in the admissions process.”Amanda Barth Director of MBA Admissions Mason School of Business The College of William & Mary

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Analytical Writing Assessment Be prepared for Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA)! All AWA Analysis of an Argument topics are available as a downloadable pdf.

For this exam question, you will discuss how well reasoned you find these arguments and will be asked to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument.

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Integrated ReasoningThe four types of Integrated Reasoning (IR) questions measure how well you integrate data to solve complex problems and test the following skills:

• Synthesizing information presented in graphics, text, and numbers • Evaluating relevant information from different sources • Organizing information to see relationships and to solve multiple,

interrelated problems • Combining and manipulating information from multiple sources to

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“Being able to digest volumes of information and make recommendations based upon what you see is critical for Intel’s future success.”Melissa Evers-Hood Intel Corporation

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QuantPROBLEM SOLVING

1. Question

According to the table above, the number of fellows was approximately what percent of the total membership of Organization X?

Answer Choices A. 9% B. 12% C. 18% D. 25% E. 35%

MEMBERSHIP OF ORGANIZATION X, 1988

Honorary Members ...........................78Fellows .........................................9,209Members ....................................35,509Associate Members ...................27,909Affiliates .......................................2,372

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2. Question

In a recent election, James received 0.5 percent of the 2,000 votes cast. To win the election, a candidate needed to receive more than 50 percent of the vote. How many additional votes would James have needed to win the election?

Answer Choices: A. 901 B. 989 C. 990 D. 991 E. 1,001

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DATA SUFFICIENCY

3. Question

If on a fishing trip Jim and Tom each caught some fish, which one caught more fish?

(1) Jim caught 2/3 as many fish as Tom. (2) After Tom stopped fishing, Jim continued to fish until he

caught 12 fish.

Answer Choices A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient but statement (2) ALONE is not

sufficient. B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient but statement (1) ALONE is not

sufficient. C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER

statement ALONE is sufficient. D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient. E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are not sufficient.

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4. Question

How many of the boys in a group of 100 children have brown hair?

(1) Of the children in the group, 60 percent have brown hair. (2) Of the children in the group, 40 are boys.

Answer Choices a. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient but statement (2) ALONE is not

sufficient. b. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient but statement (1) ALONE is not

sufficient. c. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER

statement ALONE is sufficient. d. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient. e. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are not sufficient.

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Verbal AnalysisREADING COMPREHENSION

NOTE: Both questions 5 and 6 refer to this passage.

Passage

(The following is based on material written in 1996.)

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, signed in 1987 by more than 150 nations, has attained its short-term goals: it has decreased the rate of increase in amounts of most ozone-depleting chemicals reaching the atmosphere and has even reduced the atmospheric levels of some of them. The projection that the ozone layer will substantially recover from ozone depletion by 2050 is based on the assumption that the protocol’s regulations will be strictly followed. Yet there is considerable evidence of violations, particularly in the form of the release of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are commonly used in the refrigeration, heating, and air-conditioning industries. These violations reflect industry attitudes; for example, in the United States, 48% of respondents in a recent survey of subscribers to Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration News, an industry trade journal, said that they did not believe that CFCs damage the ozone layer. Moreover, some in the industry apparently do not want to pay for CFC substitutes, which can run five times the cost of CFCs. Consequently, a black market in imported illicit CFCs

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has grown. Estimates of the contraband CFC trade range from 10,000 to 22,000 tons a year, with most of the CFCs originating in India and China, whose agreements under the Protocol still allow them to produce CFCs. In fact, the United States Customs Service reports that CFC-12 is a contraband problem second only to illicit drugs.

5. Question

The passage suggests which of the following about the illicit trade in CFCs?

Answer Choices A. It would cease if manufacturers in India and China stopped

producing CFCs. B. Most people who participate in such trade do not believe that

CFCs deplete the ozone layer. C. It will probably surpass illicit drugs as the largest contraband

problem faced by the United States Customs Service. D. It is fostered by people who do not want to pay the price of CFC

substitutes. E. It has grown primarily because of the expansion of the

refrigeration, heating, and air-conditioning industries in foreign countries.

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6. Question

According to the passage, which of the following best describes most ozone-depleting chemicals in 1996 as compared to those in 1987?

Answer Choices: a. The levels of such chemicals in the atmosphere had decreased. b. The number of such chemicals that reached the atmosphere had

declined. c. The amounts of such chemicals released had increased but the

amounts that reached the atmosphere had decreased. d. The rate of increase in amounts of such chemicals reaching the

atmosphere had decreased. e. The rate at which such chemicals were being reduced in the

atmosphere had slowed

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“Going in with a sense of calm is what made that last run successful.”Jessica Galimore Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland, Class of 2013

CRITICAL REASONING

7. Question

The table above represents the combined net income of all United States companies in each of five sectors for the second quarter of 1996. Which sector had the greatest net income during the first quarter of 1996?

Answer Choices A. Basic Materials B. Energy C. Industrial D. Utilities

7. Question

A factory was trying out a new process for producing one of its products, with the goal of reducing production costs. A trial production run using the new process showed a fifteen percent reduction in costs compared with past performance using the standard process. The production managers therefore concluded that the new process did produce a cost savings.

Which of the following, if true, casts most doubt on the production managers’ conclusion?

Answer Choices: A. In the cost reduction project that eventually led to the trial of the

new process, production managers had initially been seeking cost reductions of fifty percent.

B. Analysis of the trial of the new process showed that the cost reduction during the trial was entirely attributable to a reduction in the number of finished products rejected by quality control.

C. While the trial was being conducted, production costs at the factory for a similar product, produced without benefit of the new process, also showed a fifteen percent reduction.

D. Although some of the factory’s managers have been arguing that the product is outdated and ought to be redesigned, the use of the new production process does not involve any changes in the finished product.

E. Since the new process differs from the standard process only in the way in which the stages of production are organized and ordered, the cost of the materials used in the product is the same in both processes.

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SENTENCE CORRECTION

9. Question

There is no consensus on what role, if any, is played by acid rain in slowing the growth or damaging forests in the eastern United States.

Answer Choices: A. slowing the growth or damaging B. the damage or the slowing of the growth of C. the damage to or the slowness of the growth of D. damaged or slowed growth of E. damaging or slowing the growth of

10. Question

In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of an average thirty-year-old male’s income; and forty-four percent in 1984

Answer Choices A. income; and forty-four percent in 1984 B. income; in 1984 the figure was forty-four percent C. income, and in 1984 forty-four percent D. income, forty-four percent in 1984 was the figure E. income that rose to forty-four percent in 1984

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QuantPROBLEM SOLVING

1. Answer: B

Explanation:From the table, the number of fellows is 9,209, and the total membership is the sum of the 5 numbers, which is 75,077. Therefore, the number of fellows is 9,209/75,077 of the total membership, or approximately 12 percent. The best answer is B.

2. Answer: D

Explanation:James received 0.5 percent of 2000 votes, which is (0.005)(2000) = 10 votes. To win he needed more than 50 percent of 2000, so he needed (0.5)(2000

ANSWER KEY

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DATA SUFFICIENCY

3. Answer: A

Explanation:Statement (1) indicates that Jim caught fewer fish than Tom. Therefore, (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question, and the answer must be A or D. Statement (2) gives no information about the number of fish Tom caught. Therefore, (2) alone is not sufficient. And the best answer is A.

4. Answer: E

Explanation:From statement (1), only the total number of children who have brown hair can be determined, so (1) alone is not sufficient. Therefore, the answer must be B, C, or E. Clearly (2) alone is not sufficient because nothing is said about brown hair. Therefore, the answer must be C or E. From statements (1) and (2) together, only the total number of children who have brown hair and the number of boys in the group are known. Thus, (1) and (2) together are not sufficient, and the best answer is E.

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VerbalREADING COMPREHENSION

5. Answer: D

Explanation:This question asks what the passage implies about the illicit trade in CFC’s. The best answer is D. The passage states that some industry members appear not to want to pay the price of CFC substitutes, and that consequently a black market in cheaper CFC’s has emerged. This implies that the black market is fostered at least in part by those industry members who are unwilling to pay the higher price of CFC substitutes. Choice A can be eliminated because the passage states that only that most contraband CFC’s originate in India and China. This does not imply that the illicit trade in CFC’s could not continue without manufacturers in those countries. Choice B is not correct because the passage does not provide information about the beliefs of participants in the illicit CFC trade. Choice C is incorrect because the passage states only that the United States Customs Service considers the illicit CFC trade to be a problem second only to the illicit drug trade; there is no suggestion in the passage that the illicit CFC trade is expected to develop into a larger problem than the illicit drug trade. Choice E is incorrect because the passage attributes the growth of the illicit trade in CFC’s to the high cost of CFC substitutes, not to an expansion of refrigeration, heating, and air-conditioning industries in foreign countries.

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6. Answer: D

Explanation:This question asks you to identify a claim that is made in the passage about ozone-depleting chemicals. The best answer is D. The passage, written in 1996, states that the rate of increase in amounts of most ozone-depleting chemicals reaching the atmosphere had been reduced since 1987. Choice A can be eliminated because the passage states that the atmospheric levels of some ozone-depleting chemicals has been reduced, not that the levels of most had been reduced. Choice B is incorrect because the actual number of different chemicals reaching the atmosphere is not provided in the passage, nor is it claimed that the number had declined. Choice C is not correct because the passage does not claim that there was an increase in the amounts of ozone-depleting chemicals released between 1987 and 1996. Choice E is incorrect because there is no indication in the passage that the rate of reduction of atmospheric chemicals had slowed between 1987 and 1996.

CRITICAL REASONING

7. Answer: A

Explanation:The table shows net income in billions of dollars and the percent change from the first quarter to the second. According to the table, net income in the basic materials sector decreased by 26 percent

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from the first quarter to the second. If x represents the net income in the first quarter, (0.74)x = 4.83, and x = 6.53. The energy sector net income increased by 40 percent. If y represents the net income in the first quarter, (1.40)y = 7.46, so y < 6. The industrial sector changed by only 1 percent to 5.00, so the first quarter value had to be less than 6.53. For utilities, the net income increased about 300 percent, which means that the net income in the first quarter was about 1/4 of 8.57, which is clearly less than 6.53. The conglomerates sector net income the first quarter was less than 2.07, so the basic materials net income was greatest in the first quarter. The best answer is A.

8. Answer: C

Explanation:The managers concluded that the new process produced a cost savings on the basis of a trial run of the process in which costs were 15 percent lower than they had been previously. You are asked to identify something that casts doubt on their conclusion.

Choice C is the best answer. If production costs at the factory fell for a similar product that was produced without using the new process, it is more doubtful that the observed production cost reductions achieved during the trial run were actually produced by the new process.

Choice A is incorrect; the fact that the managers had hoped for cost reduction of fifty percent does not cast any doubt on their conclusion that the new process had produced at least some savings. Choice

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B is incorrect since finding the source of the cost savings in the trial shows that the savings were no mere accident and so reinforces the managers’ conclusion. Choices D and E are incorrect since by emphasizing that certain aspects of the product — its design and raw materials — were the same in the standard process and the new process, these two answer choices support, rather than cast doubt on, the conclusion that the process itself produced the savings.

SENTENCE CORRECTION

9. Answer: E

Explanation:The corrected sentence must make clear that both damaging and slowing the growth of refer to forests. E is the only choice that does so without introducing errors. In choice A, of is required after growth. In choices B and C, the use of the damage instead of damaging produces awkward and wordy constructions, and without to after damage, B is grammatically incomplete. In C, the slowness of does not convey the original sense that the rate of growth has been slowed by acid rain. Choice D also changes the meaning of the sentence by making both damaged and slowed refer to growth.

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10. Answer: B

Explanation:To establish the clearest comparison between circumstances in 1973 and those in 1984, a separate clause is needed to describe each year. Choices A and C, in failing to use separate clauses, are too elliptical and therefore unclear. Choice A also incorrectly uses and and a semicolon to separate an independent clause and a phrase. Choice D incorrectly separates two independent clauses with a comma; moreover, the placement of in 1984 is awkward and confusing. In choice E, that refers illogically to income, thereby producing the misstatement that income rather than mortgage payments rose to forty-four percent in 1984. Choice B is best; two properly constructed clauses that clearly express the comparison are separated by a semicolon.

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