Gmat: Answers to the Real Essay Questions (Arco GMAT Answers to the Real Essay Questions), by Mark Alan Stewart, Frederick J., Ph.D. O'Toole, Linda, Ph.D. Bomstad from Test Prep Bookstore.com

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

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A realistic picture of the actual scene

This book gives one a thorough insight into the essay questions for GMAT. It is a must read for anyone giving the GMAT. It gets one thinking on the lines of the GMAT test setters. On the day of the GMAT one has to type one's own ideas but this book definitely prepares one for it.

Questions Are No Longer Available Online!

I ordered this book online. When I received the book, I was surprised to find that no questions are available in the book. I followed the instructions in the book to download the questions, but it 's a dead link!!! I could not find any other information on publisher's site. Do not buy this book unless you can find the questions to match the essays.

Excellent Essay Prep

I highly recommend this book if you want to maximize your GMAT AWA score. (And yes, AWA is not as important as the Q & V sections, but do you want people to think you're a lucky-guessing illiterate test monkey?)

This book helped me bag a perfect "6.0" on my GMAT essays recently. BUT NOTE: it *is* sufficient to buy a used copy of an older edition -- you don't need the newest one. I used the 1st edition from around 1998, that was fine.

You DO NOT need to read the book cover to cover. But do read at least 25 or 30 of the essays and pay attention. That will be excellent prep in showing you what a good essay is in terms of organization, length, rhetoric, etc. Well worth a few bucks and a few hours of prep time.

The templates and reusable phrases are very useful.

This book is meant for those who worry about their low Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) or who want to get a perfect score (6/6). It is best book of its kind; includes about 100 samples and analyses for each the Issue and the Argument essays.

Oh Please

The essay is covered more than adequately in the other prep books on the market, especially in light of the facts that:

a. Most schools aren't super-interested in the essay score,
and
b. The essay section is a breeze for most native English speakers.

Spend 20 minutes looking over the Princeton Review essay chapter and you're covered.

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Gmat: Answers to the Real Essay Questions (Arco GMAT Answers to the Real Essay Questions)

Mark Alan Stewart, Frederick J., Ph.D. O'Toole, Linda, Ph.D. Bomstad

ARCO, 2003-02

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