GMAT Guide Update Includes 6 Months Online Access

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The Graduate Management Admission Council, in partnership with Wiley, is making studying for the GMAT exam easier and more convenient. The best-selling Official Guide for GMAT Review series is adding online content, videos and a study tool, allowing b-school applicants to access hundreds of real, retired GMAT questions both in book form and online to customize their own question sets.

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"The Official Guide for GMAT Review has been a consistently popular trade publication since the first edition was published in 1978,"says Ashok Sarathy, GMAC vice president, product management. "Now, we are making studying for the GMAT exam easier and more flexible, as people can both annotate the book and customize question sets with the new, online component."

Joan O'Neil, VP and managing director at Wiley, calls the partnership with GMAC ideal, adding "We are excited to see how the new online aspects and tools evolve so we can continue to bring the best content and value to our customers."

The 2015 series will contain the same content as the Official Guide for GMAT Review, 13th Edition, and the Official Guide for Quantitative Review, Second Edition, and the Official Guide for Verbal Review, Second Edition, along with access to exclusive online content including videos and a study tool that allows users to customize practice sets by question format and difficulty level.

"We see our role as giving candidates the best opportunity to perform to the best of their ability on the GMAT exam. Publishing the Official Guide is part of that mission as the series offers more retired practice questions than any other product on the market. The online enhancements made to the 2015 edition are the first of many improvements, and we plan to update the Guides on an annual basis," Sarathy says.

The 2015 series is available at bookstores worldwide and at the mba.com/store.

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by VivianKerr » Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:40 am
It's pretty awesome! You can actually answer more OG problems now in the SAME manner in which you'll take the actual GMAT exam: online!

Be sure to use your scratch pad to practice effective strategies as you do these official problems! By strategy, I mean a written-out "Step 1 ... Step 2 ..." plan of attack: a process by which you get the correct answer over and over again once you know the concepts tested. Strategy is necessary to prevent you from missing the traps of harder questions. Low-scorers will sometimes skim reading comprehension passages, sometimes take notes, sometimes read the question-stem first, sometimes not, to mixed results. High-scorers know exactly how to attack an RC passage, or an SC completely underlined problem. If your scores are wanting consistency and you feel you've leveled out, refocus on strategy!
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