Ace the GMAT

by Brandon Royal

Book Overview

Ace the GMAT offers a distillation of the experiences of a veteran test-prep instructor, MBA Admissions coach, author and education raconteur, which helps students pass this often challenging test first time.

Offers a philosophy built on two simple but powerful propositions: Identify the principles behind classic problem types Succeed first by not getting the easy questions wrong and then go on to get the difficult questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405163119
• ISBN13: 9781405163118
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Great purchase!

Bought Ace the GMAT book. Delivery was on time. They say it is a MUST to prepare for the GMAT test. We will see!

Effective GMAT preparation

I think this book is invaluable for someone who's preparing the GMAT. It focus on topics that students need to master to get a reasonably high score in GMAT. This approach is quite differenty from other text where they simply list a series of problems for students to work on. I feel this approach is much more effective in helping students to answer the more difficult questions in GMAT.

Well worth the investment.

Excellent skills-building tool that closed the gap in my preparation for the GMAT, which other prep books weren't doing. The author does a fabulous job of providing the lowdown on the question types that recur on the test and the approaches that actually work, and presenting them in a way that's easy for time-poor test takers to digest. Indispensable in helping this test taker hit the 95th percentile. Absolutely worth the investment.

Very Helpful Tips

I found 'Ace the GMAT' to be, by far, the most helpful book of all of the GMAT preparation books I used. While the Kaplan GMAT book and the official GMAT guide published by ETS are both invaluable, I nevertheless found the tips and strategies provided by the 'Ace the GMAT' book to be the most comprehensive, concrete and ultimately helpful. The strategies included to tackle the math section were particularly good, especially the chapter regarding questions on probability. Overall, I do not think that anyone's GMAT prep-book arsenal is complete without this book.

The GMAT Miracle

I found this book to be excellent for sorting problems into groups and learning what common principles are behind related problems. The book has a cool list of ¡°tips¡± imbedded in the solutions section which helped me grasp the common principles behind problem groupings. Even as a liberal arts major and former investment banker, I found a good number of these math and verbal tips simple but not necessarily obvious and enjoyed having them spelled out for me. Examples: Tip #48: ¡°Two rectangular solids my have identical surface areas but different volumes (and vice versa)¡± and Tip #92: ¡°If A is thought to be causing B, the idea that B is causing A is called reverse causation and casts serious doubt on the notion that A is really causing B.¡± The book has a wonderful review of analytical writing and a nice short grammar review in the appendix. This book will teach you how to do problems, and I found it a great complement to the GMAT Official Guide, which has gobs of practice problems but doesn¡¯t deal with how problems work conceptually. In summary, although I was a bit skeptical at first, I thought this book was well deserving of its claim to be ¡°the #1 skill-building GMAT book.¡±