How to Study for the GMAT?

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If you want to get admitted into a graduate business administrator program at a business school, you must take and adequately pass the GMAT, which stands for Graduate Management Admission Test. No matter how well you did in school, you will probably need to study in order to do well on GMAT.

It is recommended that you give yourself about two or three months to study for the GMAT. Two or more months will give you enough time to cover all the material thoroughly without feeling too rushed or that you're cramming.

Study Official Guide Books

The first thing you should do is purchase the official guide books (Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition) to study for the GMAT. Take the book and do every single problem correctly, and read the explanation of each problem. If you manage to finish the entire book before the GMAT, do all the questions over again to reinforce everything you've learned.

Ensure that you practice with an OG practice book, as these types of practice books include actual questions from the GMAT, so you will become very familiar with the actual pattern of questions that they ask. The questions on the GMAT should be very similar to the questions in the OG practice book.

GMAT Practice Exams

On the weekends, you should try doing a few GMAT practice exams. Ideally, you should do one or two each weekend. Although you must be knowledgeable to pass the GMAT, you must also be able to fully apply this knowledge to pass the GMAT. Practice exams will help you a whole lot with application. The Princeton Review GMAT book and the Kaplan GMAT both have quality practice exams that you can take.

Visit MBA.com and download the GMATPrep, which is a 100 percent free software that you can take advantage of. This software has the same user interface as the actual GMAT exam, so this software is a great way to get a feel for the GMAT. Also, this software also includes exam questions that are currently retired from the GMAT.

Since the GMATPrep is extremely similar to the actual GMAT exam, how you do on the GMATPrep is a pretty good indicator on how well you will do on the GMAT. If you don't do well on the GMATPrep, then you have a lot of studying to do.

As you can see, passing the GMAT isn't an impossible task since you have so many resources at your fingertips. Some of these resources are free, while some cost money.