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 - Excellent resource for math foundationIf you have been away from academia for awhile, this book is an excellent resource for math review. Nova really breaks it down with excellent explanations, examples, and practice problems. Here's what you will learn in the math section: Substitution Math Notes Defined Functions Number Theory Geometry Coordinate Geometry Elimination Strategies Inequalities Fractions & Decimals Equations Averages Ratio & Proportion Exponents & Roots Factoring Algebraic Expressions Percents Graphs Word Problems Sequences & Series Counting Probability & Statistics Summary of Math Properties Data Sufficiency This book is second to none when it comes to math review. However, you may consider the Princeton Review(PR) for Data Sufficiency. I haven't really used the book for the verbal portion as I am happy with the PR's version -- though it is a bit too easy. Currently, I am preparing with the OG, PR and Nova. This should be sufficient for a local university I am trying to 'apply to' (Whoa! Is that an idiom?:)). Best of luck! Rating:  - GarbageI read some other reviews stating this book helped you. I don't know how you managed that, but cheers. There are more errors in this book than I have ever seen in a professionally published work. The answer descriptions are weak at best, and their relations to the questions asked are awkward and obscure. I made a special note to review this to warn off anyone considering the purchase. Stay away. Rating: - Bleah softwarePerhaps the book itself is a nice enough book on preparing for the GMAT, but the software on the CD accompanying this book has to be the worst ever designed for testing. And the online course (while looking slick) is pretty much a rehash of the CD. An example that I have given below is pretty much symptomatic of the software design. While doing one of the full-length tests, in the verbal section, I was answering the first reading comprehension section. After I spent about 2 minutes reading through the passage, I answered the first question. Instead of taking me to the next question about the same passage, it immediately took me to a completely new reading comprehension passage and asked me a question there! And this happened with all the reading comprehension passages. I am sure the GMAT is not a sissy test, but surely even ETS would not play with your mind by switching around passages like this. For those in my situation (I already hold a graduate degree and had about 4 weeks to study for the GMAT): get the Kaplan guide (with accompanying CD) and perhaps the Barron's guide. That may be all you need. However, I sincerely think you need more computer-based questioning than the full-length practice tests that most of these moron testing guides give us. Rating: - The best book so far,I have been study for gmat quite some time now. I started with Princton, Kaplan, and the official but none of them helped in the math section. This book is the best at math subject. I also liked the reading comprehension explaination much better than Kaplan. Rating: - Worst bookWhen I read reviews before purchasing this book, I was encouraged to buy it. But after reading it, I felt that first few sections are good and it looked that I was getting all answers correct but problems given are really too simple and not to the standard of GMAT. I wasted my time in reading this book. I wish I had not purchased this book. I read official guide combined with Kaplan and Princiton which helped me a lot. Now I am in doing MBA at Harvard. In association with Amazon.com | |