Anybody take the GMAT Recently

[Babbles]

I have been tooling around with the idea of getting a MBA - and with my job shakey as hell I figurd this would be a good time to make the leap.

Anybody have any books they would recommend for the GMAT? I would imagine my weakness would probably be the verbal section.

Anyhow, any advice for taking the GMAT?

 

[Wreckem]

Powerscore GMAT Critical Reasoning Bible
Powerscore GMAT Sentence Correction Bible
Basic math textbook
College Algebra textbook
Business Calculus textbook

 

[sactoking]

I used a Princeton Review test prep book (the kind they publish for SAT, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, etc) from 1998 when I took the test in 2007 and did just fine. Definitely bone up on your verbal: lots of MBA applicants are engineers and math nerds. If you get the same score on the math and verbal sections, your verbal will actually be about 5 percentile better than the math since the engineers 'don't speak good'.

 

[erub]

I took the test in 2005, and used Princeton Review and Kaplan books from the library. I think I bought the GMAT 800 book from PR (was supposed to have harder questions?) I think those questions were harder than the actual test. My math was 47, and verbal 41, but verbal was higher percentile, haah. Overall score was pretty good.

 

[Babbles]

Thanks for the info.

I recently was laid off and thought this may be a decent opportunity to go and fetch a MBA - I have nine years of post-college work experience, and three years in a low level management position so I thought I had a fair amount of work background to make a MBA worth it.

 

[GasX]

Practice practice practice.

Take as many practice tests as you can find.

I used the princeton review book. It is filled with very practical test taking skills as well as lots of low hanging fruit test questions and vocabulary words.

edit: oops I thought it was GRE. Although I got 98th%ile or so back in 97 when I took the GMAT test. Same general approach worked then too but I am a bit of a standardized test savant.