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While some business schools show little interest in the AWA (analytical writing assessment) portion of your GMAT, other schools use the results to help distinguish between the hundreds of students competing for placement in their programs. If your schools of choice consider AWA results when selecting students, you'll need to devote time to your essays as well as to your math and verbal skills. When you take your GMAT, the computer randomly selects two essay questions from its question bank. GMAT CAT: Answers to the Real Essay Questions can help you prepare for all of them. No book is allowed to publish the questions (though this book's appendix will tell you how to download the 180 official AWA questions from the EST's web site)-- but this book does provide you with sample answers to all 180 questions. The authors warn you not to try to use their answers on the exam, as the GMAT readers feel pretty strongly about plagiarism--instead, they provide you with tools to help you compose your own high-scoring GMAT essays and a "scorecard" to help you score your practice essays. The book also offers advice on how to answer both the "analysis of an issue" and "analysis of an argument" questions, and truly practical information about the basic structure of the exam and even the word-processing program you'll be using on your test. Filled with such useful advice, GMAT CAT: Answers to the Real Essay Questions would be a great addition to the serious student's GMAT preparation. --C.B. Delaney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Now for the first time, the test-makers are releasing all 180 real GMAT essay questions in advance--and ARCO is ready with sample answers to every question. This exclusive new guide features ten strategies to all points to essay scores, inside tips on what the graders are looking for, and expert coaching from test-prep pros. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good for non-native english speakers, people who never write, Aug 3 2000

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This review is from: GMAT CAT: Answers to the Real Essay 2nd (Paperback)

Very simply, this book is for two kinds of people: 1. People for whom English are not their first language or 2. People who don't read OR write formal documents in their workplace. The trick to the essay questions is pretty straightforward. Rather than reading essays that "worked", a person is better off reading the op/ed page in the New York Times and/or practicing what I would call the 5-paragraph rule. I used this (made-up) rule to get a 6 on the essay section with no preparation; (the essay is scored 1-6, 6 being the highest). Basically, the exam states a very simple statement, either ridiculously agreeable or ridiculously disagreeable. All you have to do is say why you agree/disagree with the statement. So what you can do is break it up as follows: paragraph 1 - State your opinions very clearly, e.g. I agree with this statement because of reason 1, reason 2 and reason 3. Paragraph 2 - Support reason 1, reason 1 makes sense because blah blah blah. Paragraph 3, same as the second paragraph. Paragraph 4 - optional, you don't need 3 reasons. I had 3 for one essay on 2 for the other. Paragraph 5 - wrap it up by re-iterating your reasons for agreeing/disagreeing with the statement, e.g. In conclusion, I agree with this statement because of reason 1, reason 2 etc. Voila! Practice this method with a couple of incredibly simple statements. It's more of how you structure the essays than the content. Remember that one of the two graders is a computer. Here is a practice statement: 1. Women were given the right to vote in the latter half of the 20th century. The presidents from this time period have caused more mass destruction than from the first half of the century. Thus, women should not have the right to vote. (Yes, some of the statements are this stupid.)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good book--but is it really necessary?, Jun 24 2000

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This review is from: GMAT CAT: Answers to the Real Essay 2nd (Paperback)

Hey, let's face it--who is going to read 150 GMAT essays? Not me, maybe not you, maybe only a GMAT essay scorer. Most people can do fine with the samples included in the Official GMAT book or with the review included in other books.

Furthermore, most schools don't really care too much about your GMAT essay score--they care most about your Verbal and Quantitative scores. Most of the schools that really care about your writing ability will look at your answers to the essay questions in the MBA application.

However, if you are the kind of person who really, really *loves* to study as much as possible for a test, this book is good, *and*, it is the only book on the market with this many sample GMAT essays.

All the essays are well-written and they would receive high scores on the GMAT. This book is good for people who learn from examples or for people who really have no idea what to write. Non-native speakers of English should take a look at this book if they feel like their writing style is not similar to the English writing style.

In short, this book is full of examples and is good for people who are not sure of what to write. Since GMAT has said that all essays will come from these topics, studying this book is good for people who are nervous about their essay scores.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, Dec 27 2002

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The information in this book is FREE! You can download all the questions from mba.com because ETS makes these questions available! I bought the book thinking it would give me an edge. By this point in your academic career, you should hopefully be able to write up an essay, so this book really shouldn't be teaching you anything you don't already know. If you are a non-native English speaker, your money would be better spent on a book on English style, such as "The Elements of Style" by Strunk & White. At least you will be able to apply the information in that book to your application essays and to any papers you will have to write in grad school.

The [$$]I spent on this book would have been better spent buying into a question bank at Kaplan or something. This part of the GMAT is no big deal, schools generally use these scores only if you wrote an amazing entrance essay but scored a 1 on this section. They just want to see consistency between your score and your entrance essays. Overlook the question list from ETS and save your money.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The templates and reusable phrases are very useful.
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