GMAT Official Advanced Questions E-Book

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GMAT Official Advanced Questions

Your GMAT Official Prep collection of only hard GMAT questions from past exams.

Bring your best on exam day by focusing on the hard GMAT questions to help improve your performance. Get 300 additional hard verbal and quantitative questions to supplement your GMAT Official Guide collection. 

GMAT Official Advance Questions:

• Specifically created for those who aspire to earn a top GMAT score and want additional prep.
• Expand your practice with 300 additional hard verbal and quantitative questions from past GMAT exams to help you perform at your best.
• Learn strategies to solve hard questions by reviewing answer explanations from subject matter experts.
• Organize your studying with practice questions grouped by fundamental skills
• Help increase your test-taking performance and confidence on exam day knowing you studied the hard GMAT questions.

PLUS! Your purchase includes online resources to further your practice:

• Online Question Bank: Create your own practice sets online with the same questions in GMAT Official Advance Questions to focus your studying on specific fundamental skills.
• Mobile App: Access your Online Question Bank through the mobile app to never miss a moment of practice. Study on-the-go and sync with your other devices. Download the Online Question Bank once on your app and work offline.

This product includes: print book with a unique access code and instructions to the Online Question Bank accessible via your computer and Mobile App.

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GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions

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CONTENTS

Cover

Chapter 1 Introduction

I. What is the GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions?

II. Who should use the GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions?

III. How should I use the GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions?

Chapter 2 Quantitative Reasoning

Practice Questions Quantitative Reasoning

Answer Key Quantitative Reasoning

Answer Explanations Quantitative Reasoning

Problem Solving

Data Sufficiency

Chapter 3 Verbal Reasoning

Practice Questions Verbal Reasoning

Answer Key Verbal Reasoning

Answer Explanations Verbal Reasoning

Reading Comprehension

Critical Reasoning

Sentence Correction

Appendix Answer Sheet

GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions Online Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

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Chapter 1Introduction

Introduction

I. What is the GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions?

The GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions is a compilation of 300 hard Quantitative Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning questions, similar in difficulty level to hard questions found in the GMAT Official Guide series. Some of these questions have appeared in earlier editions of the GMAT Official Guide series; others have never been published before.

Like all GMAT questions, hard GMAT questions test higher-order reasoning skills identified as key factors of success in classrooms and job performances by educators and employers. They are unlike questions on other types of achievement-based exams, which focus more on mastery of mechanical cognitive skills and domain-specific knowledge. To solve GMAT questions, a test taker needs to demonstrate higher-order reasoning skills by understanding the underlying relationships between multiple concepts or arguments, identifying patterns, synthesizing information presented in various formats, and/or evaluating relevant information from different sources. What makes some GMAT questions harder than others is the level of complexity: hard GMAT questions typically involve multiple reasoning tasks or concepts and require more than one step to solve. They do not require mastery of skills and knowledge such as advanced-level mathematics, extensive calculations, or a large vocabulary in order to be solved.

II. Who should use the GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions?

The GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions is designed for test takers who have studied the questions in the GMAT Official Guide series and desire additional practice with hard questions.

For a simulation of the real exam experience, there are six GMAT Official Practice Exams—the first two are free to all mba.com registrants—which are available on mba.com and feature questions from past GMAT exams and use the same scoring algorithm as the actual exam.

III. How should I use the GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions?

Use the GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions for additional practice. The questions are organized by fundamental skills tested on the GMAT exam to better help you locate the specific skill type that you may want to improve. The fundamental skills are the same ones listed in the GMAT™ Enhanced Score Report, a non-official score report that provides more detailed information about your performance on the actual GMAT exam, which include:

Quantitative Reasoning

Geometry

—3-dimensional geometry; angles in the plane/lines and segments; circle/area; combo: circle/quadrangle/area/perimeter; coordinate geometry; polygon (5 or more sides); Pythagorean Theorem; quadrilateral area

Rates/Ratio/Percent

—conversion of fractions/decimals/percentages; graduated rate; percent (basic); ratio, proportion

Value/Order/Factors

—absolute value; computation-decimals; exponents; factors, multiples, divisibles; number line and order; place value; positive and negative numbers; remainders

Equalities/Inequalities/Algebra

—algebraic manipulation; applying formula; linear equation; linear inequality; measurement conversion; newly defined functions; quadratic/other equalities/inequalities; systems of equations/inequalities; translation to algebraic expression

Counting/Sets/Series

—counting (combinatorics); estimation; series and sequences; sets

Verbal Reasoning

Critical Reasoning Analysis/Critique

—ability to analyze given information and make reasoned judgments by evaluating and breaking down an argument

Critical Reasoning Construction/Plan

—ability to construct a plan of action to find the best logical solution

Reading Comprehension Identify Inferred Idea

—ability to comprehend what a passage implies but does not explicitly mention

Reading Comprehension Identify Stated Idea

—ability to recognize and understand the ideas explicitly expressed in a passage

Sentence Correction Grammar

—ability to identify the answer that will create a sentence which is grammatically and structurally sound

Sentence Correction Communication

—ability to identify the answer that will create an effective sentence which expresses an idea or relationship clearly and concisely, as well as grammatically

For more information about the Enhanced Score Report and a description of each fundamental skill area, go to www.mba.com/esr-demo. Note: The ratio of questions across different question types (e.g., data sufficiency, problem solving, etc.) and fundamental skills in GMAT™ Official Advanced Questions do not reflect the ratio of questions on the actual GMAT exam.

Spend time reviewing the answer explanations and understanding the methods discussed. Like those in the GMAT Official Guide series, the answer explanations are written by GMAT subject matter experts with decades of experience writing and editing GMAT questions. Review these explanations carefully to understand the solution and identify techniques or approaches which may be applied to other GMAT questions.

Lastly, go online to gmat.wiley.com and access the Online Question Bank. The GMAT exam is ­administered on a computer, and it may be beneficial for you to practice answering on a computer. The Online Question Bank contains all of the questions that are in this book and allows you to create customized practice sets, use the timer, track your progress, and view performance metrics. You can also study on-the-go by accessing the Online Question Bank through the Wiley Efficient Learning mobile app, available in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.