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GMAT Official Guide 2025-2026: Includes Book + Online Question Bank + Digital Flashcards + Mobile App Power up your prep with the GMAT Official Guide, the only study guide that features real exam questions. You'll get exclusive tips and tricks directly from the exam creators and gain access to more than 975 practice questions to set you up for success on test day.
Highlights: - Comprehensive Data Insights Review, Quantitative Review and Verbal Review chapters to master each section of the GMAT exam
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List of contents
Table of Contents Letter from the President and CEO, GMAC(TM) xi 1.0 What Is the GMAT(TM) Exam? 2 1.1 What Is the GMAT(TM) Exam?
3 1.2 Why Take the GMAT(TM) Exam?
3 1.3 GMAT(TM) Exam Format
4 1.4 What Is the Testing Experience Like?
6 1.5 What Is the Exam Content Like?
6 1.6 Quantitative Reasoning Section
6 1.7 Data Insights Section
7 1.8 Verbal Reasoning Section
8 1.9 How Are Scores Calculated?
8 2.0 How to Prepare 10 2.1 How Should I Prepare for the GMAT(TM) Exam?
11 2.2 Getting Ready for Exam Day
12 2.3 How to Use the
GMAT (TM)
Official Guide 2025-2026 12 2.4 How to Use Other GMAT(TM) Official Prep Products
14 2.5 Tips for Taking the Exam
14 2.6 Section Strategies
16 3.0 Math Review 20 3.0 Math Review
21 3.1 Value, Order, and Factors
22 3.2 Algebra, Equalities, and Inequalities
30 3.3 Rates, Ratios, and Percents
44 3.4 Statistics, Sets, Counting, Probability, Estimation, and Series
54 3.5 Reference Sheets
66 4.0 Quantitative Reasoning 78 4.0 Quantitative Reasoning
79 4.1 Tips for Answering Quantitative Reasoning Questions
80 4.2 Practice Questions
82 4.3 Answer Key
125 4.4 Answer Explanations
127 5.0 Data Insights Review 224 5.0 Data Insights Review
225 5.1 Data Sets and Types
225 5.2 Data Displays
230 5.3 Data Patterns
240 6.0 Data Insights 246 6.0 Data Insights
247 6.1 What Is Measured
248 6.2 Question Types and Test-Taking Strategies
249 6.3 Online Question Bank Instructions
256 6.4 Practice Questions: Data Sufficiency
258 6.5 Answer Key: Data Sufficiency
275 6.6 Answer Explanations: Data Sufficiency
276 6.7 Practice Questions: Two-Part Analysis
337 6.8 Answer Key: Two-Part Analysis
357 6.9 Answer Explanations: Two-Part Analysis
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7.0 Verbal Review 400 7.0 Verbal Review
401 7.1 Analyzing Passages
401 7.2 Inductive Reasoning
408 7.3 Deductive Reasoning
414 8.0 Verbal Reasoning 424 8.0 Verbal Reasoning
425 8.1 What Is Measured
425 8.2 Question Types
426 8.3 Tips for Answering Verbal Reasoning Questions
432 8.4 Practice Questions: Reading Comprehension
434 8.5 Answer Key: Reading Comprehension
500 8.6 Answer Explanations: Reading Comprehension
501 8.7 Practice Questions: Critical Reasoning
590 8.8 Answer Key: Critical Reasoning
646 8.9 Answer Explanations: Critical Reasoning
647 9.0 GMAT(TM) Official Guide Question Index 842 9.0 GMAT(TM) Official Guide Question Index
843 Appendix A Answer Sheets 872 Quantitative Reasoning Answer Sheet
873 Data Sufficiency Answer Sheet
875 Two-Part Analysis Answer Sheet
876 Reading Comprehension Answer Sheet
877 Critical Reasoning Answer Sheet
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