The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition Paperback
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The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition (Paperback)
by Graduate Management Admission Council (Author)
Textbook Details
* Paperback: 832 pages
* Publisher: Graduate Management Admission Council; 11 edition (September 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0976570904
* ISBN-13: 978-0976570905
* Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 1.4 inches
* Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
* Rating: 
GMAT 11th Edition Review
This book should be the first one you buy during your GMAT prep as it contains retired GMAT questions from past exams – this gives you a much better feel for the types of questions you are likely to encounter on the day. There are plenty of questions to practice with in both the quant and verbal sections – although beware that if you are also purchasing the old exams from the [...] that some of these will be replicated.
The real weakness with this book is with the level of detail in reviews. Particularly in the maths section, it does assume a level of knowledge and some topics are not well covered at all (e.g. combinations, permutations). If, like me, you are someone who has not touched high-school maths in 10 years, then it may be worth purchasing a couple of specific maths review books to aid you in this section.
I used this book more than any other study resource, and I took no prep course. I scored 770 (49Q 48V). Obviously I can’t say for sure what would have happened without this book, but I feel it helped.
The majority of the questions tend to be on the easy side, with only a small percentage of hard questions. I recommend going over the harder questions with a fine-toothed comb, you will need to know them cold.