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Acknowledgments
Ou GMAT couse is much than clever techniques and powerful computer
score reports; the reason ou results great is that ou teachers so much
about their students. Thanks to all the teachers who have made the GMAT couse
so successful. but in particular the group of teachers and development people
who helped get it off the ground: Alicia Ernst. Meltzer. Paul Foglino. John Shee-
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Foreword '" VII

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Part 1: Orientation........ 1
Introduction........................................... 3
2 How to Think About the GMA 11
3 Cracking the System: Basic Principles 15
4 Cracking the System: Intermediate Principles 23
5 Cracking the System: Advanced Principles 31
6 Taking the GMAT 41

Part II:How to Crack the Math GMAT '" 49

7 GMAT Math: Basic Principles 51
8 and GMAT Math 63
9 Arithmetic..... 73
1 Algebra '" 109
11 Applied Arithmetic 131
12 Geometry 149
13 Data Sufficiency 185

Part 111: How to Crack the Verbal GMAT..................................... 217

14 Sentence Correction............................................................... 219
15 Reading Comprehension 253
16 Critical Reasoning 279

Part IV: How to Crack the Writing Assessment 313

17 Analytical Writing Assessment................................................. 315

Part : Answer to Drills 345

Part VI: The Princeton Review GMAT

Warm-Up and Explanations 351
18 GMAT Warm-Up Test 353
19 GMAT \'/\/arm-Up Test Scoring Guide 369
20 GMAT Warm-Up Test: Answers and Explanations 373
Part VII: The Princeton Review GMAT Practice Test
and Explanations :.......................... 397
21 GMAT Practice Test 399
22 GMAT Practice Test: Answers and Explanations 451

Part VIII: Appendix 575

23 Ouick Math Review 577
24 Applying to Business School 583

About the Author . 591

Foreword
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to wrong answers (called, fittingly, distracters). Some of ou techniques address those
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Part 1
Orientation
1 Introduction
2 How to Think About the GMAT
3 Cracking the System: Basic Principles
4 Cracking the System: Intermediate Principles
5 Cracking the System: Advanced Principles
6 Taking the GMAT
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How to Crack the
MathGMAT
7 GMAT Math: Basic Principles
8 and GMAT Math
9 Arithmetic
10 Algebra
11 Applied Arithmetic
12 Geometry
13 Data Sufficiency

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Geoff Mart'Z. attended Dartmouth College and Columbia University before
joining 1he ri Review in 1985 as teacher and writ:er. Geoff headed
the development t:eam that designed 1he ri Review's GMAT course,
now taught in more than50 cities around the country. is t:he author or
coauthor of Cracking the , Paying for College Without Going Broke, and
Cracking the GED.