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McGraw-Hill's Conquering the GMAT Math: MGH's Conquering GMAT Math |  | Author: Robert Moyer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0071485031
Dewey Decimal Number: 510.76
EAN: 9780071485036
ASIN: 0071485031
Publication Date: December 9, 2008
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Unbeatable test prep for the more than 150,000 students who take the GMAT The perfect math-refresher, McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GMAT Math gives you in-depth practice and intensive review for every type of math problem on the GMAT. This book provides a comprehensive overview of every test topic through sample exams and answered problems that increase in difficulty—helping to build conceptual and problem-solving skills.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good starting point if you're lost in the woods but misses probability and stats September 4, 2009
GeorgeS
When I took my first GMAT practice test, I stopped a quarter of the way into the math because I realized how BAD I was! I figured it was hopeless continuing because it was just pure frustration.
This book is good if you're really at the head scratching level (like I was), but it doesn't cover everything you need to know for the exam (it totally ignores probability and statistics for example - which is very important to know for the exam). The big plus with this book is that they give you basic 101 practice problems just to test your knowledge of a concept that was just explained. GMAT books like Barrons illustrate a concept, give you 1 easy and 1 difficult problem, show you how to solve, then you're on your own until the practice exams. The approach here is much more like a genuine math textbook.
Use this as a supplement and source of practice, but definitely get more than this. I did like Barrons math review overall, that was a help. Princeton's was really a joke, more like "here's some basic stuff, and then just guess the rest".
 Don't use this book! August 14, 2009
Miranda G. (Tulsa, OK)
I got this book from my local library (thank goodness I didn't spend money on it), because I took a practice GMAT test and scored lower than I had hoped I would on the math section. I worked through this whole book before taking a second practice test, and my composite score only increased by 10 points. This book is filled with errors, typos, and flat-out inaccurate information about math. As an example, on page 166 under "Roots Revisited" the book incorrectly (or, rather, incompletely) tells you how to solve roots: It completely ignores the option of a negative answer for an even root. (For example, the answer to the square root of 4 could be either 2 or -2, but the book only considers the positive answer 2.) I missed two questions on my second practice test because I incorrectly assumed that because this book did not address negative answers to square (and other even) roots, the GMAT would also not consider those negative answers. That was an incorrect assumption. I'm just glad I only used this book to prepare for a practice test, and was not trying to improve my score on an actual GMAT exam that I'd paid $250 to take. I don't want other people to depend on this book for GMAT math preparation because they are likely to be disappointed with the results. Don't make the same mistake(s) I did! Don't use this book!
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