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 | | Geometry (Math Gmat Strategy Guide) by Andrew Yang (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780981853338 ISBN-10: 0-9818533-3-1 ISBN-13: 9780981853338 ISBN-13: 978-0-9818533-3-8 Paperback 2008-10 MG Prep, Inc. Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The Geometry guide provides a highly organized and structured approach to the variety of questions in this quantitative content area. Students are presented with every geometric principle, formula, and problem type tested on the GMAT. The guide will teach students to apply these principles to the various contexts in which the material is tested on the GMAT, emphasizing the creation of algebraic equations from geometric problems. Knowing that every second counts during the GMAT, the guide outlines what you simply must memorize in order to quickly solve geometry problems The guide also includes online access to 6 full-length Computer Adaptive Practice Exams on ManhattanGMAT's website. Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules, strategies and in-depth examples of how the GMAT tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains a total of 83 "In-Action" problems of increasing difficulty with detailed answer explanations. Special Features Purchase of this book includes one year of access to ManhattanGMAT's online Geometry Question Bank (accessible by inputting a unique code in the back of each book). Manhattan GMAT has categorized all the Geometry problems in The Official Guides by question type. These categorized problems have been organized into problem lists that appear in the Geometry Strategy Guide. | ||
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Just what you need to study for the GMAT This and all the other Manhattan GMAT guides were really helpful in helping me prep for the GMAT. My colleagues had recommended them over other guides and I continue to do the same after getting the score I needed on my first try. | ||
A must for math virgins wanting to take or retake the gmat The Manhattan series was the most helpful for me on my GMAT because other GMAT prep books only shows time saving or test taking tips but does not go into details about the various topics which I needed because I don't have a strong quantitative base. In fact, I didn't know even the basic idea of number properties or even odd plus odd is even (must have been asleep in math class) and so these guides were a must for me. Except for the critical reasoning guide, I give them all five stars +++! Too bad I found these guides too late (just 2 weeks before the exam) and by the time they arrived in the mail, I didn't have time to do any of the practice exercises but I still managed to improve my score from 500 to 640 from just skimming through these guides. 640 may not be a high score, but for someone who didn't know what a cube root is two weeks before the exam, these guides sure did a good job getting me up to speed. In my situation, these guides were heaven sent. If you're really good with math then they might be too easy and too basic for you. Even then, they would still serve as a nice 'refresher'. They are short and concise and it only took me about an hour or less to skim through each and so they are pricey if you're just using them for a quick review. But if you don't know math like I don't know math, BUY THEM ALL!!! THEY ROCK! | ||
not worth this is really worthless book, a school kid will know more math than in this book, the book is not helpful to get even decent score.. | ||
Major improvement over the previous version The geometry portion of GMAT has become much more difficult over the years. GMAT rarely test the basics (what is an area of a triangle?), but GMAT tests such things as "find the midpoint of a perpendicular bisector of a line with with equation y=mx+b". The explanation of triangles and all its intricacies are explained in detail, such as a height of a triangle can be any perpndicular side of a base of a triangle even though the height is external to the triangle. The book really shines in coordinate geometry. It provides very good explainations of finding intersection of two lines and perpendicular bisectors. I highly recommend this book to those who are preparing for GMAT. | ||
A good refresher Quantitative section on the GMAT can be a little tricky, even if you were pretty good at Math in your high school or in college. Why? Because the skills tested on the GMAT are different than the one you acquired in high school or college. For example, the data sufficiency section is not a straightforward problem solving section and requires some targeted practice before you take the real thing. I am an engineering major and I took multiple advanced Math courses in my college and yet, I benefited from the Manhattan Review quantitative books. So even if you think that you know everything that there is to know about the Geometry knowledge tested on the GMAT, it doesn't hurt to review some concepts and practice some additional questions. Like I said, it helped me a lot. Of course, like with everything else on the GMAT, you need to practice a lot so you will benefit from this book only if you have sufficient time to practice. If your GMAT is in a week's time, this book is probably not for you. | ||