Princeton Review: 1012 GMAT Practice Questions

Product Description

Thinking of going to business school? The GMAT is a critical exam for admission, and thousands of applicants take the test every year. The best way to prepare for standardized tests is to practice, and so with 1,012 GMAT Practice Questions, the experts at The Princeton Review give you extensive opportunities to do just that.

1,012 GMAT Practice Questions includes over 1,000 practice questions with complete answer explanations provided. It covers both the math and verbal sections of the exam and it includes 1 chapter for each type of question found on the GMAT.

Score higher on the GMAT, make your business school applications stronger, and gain admittance to the schools of your choice with 1,012 GMAT Practice Questions!

Customer Reviews

"5 stars" - Great book to help with targeted GMAT practice / By GMAT Club

I was debating between 4 and 5 stars and I think will give Princeton Review 5 for trying and for putting a product out that covers a big gap in materials available today. It will obviously not replace The Official Guide for GMAT Review which contains real GMAT questions, but will provide what OG cannot - targeted practice.

The book indeed contains 1,012 questions - counted myself :). It starts with a diagnostic test (37q and 41v questions). There are a total of 55 different "drills" targeting various interesting and often neglected areas.
The format for Math is not just standard multiple choice, but actually 50% of the quant questions are Data Sufficiency, so one can practice both questions types - PS and DS.

Book Contents and Question Split:
- Quant: Arithmetic (terminology, percents, multiples, fractions, ratios, factors, decimals) - 70 questions
- Quant: Algebra (equations and inequalities, plugging in, pita, quadratics, must be true, Yes/No DS, roots, interest, functions, powers) - 163 questions
- Quant: Statistics, Probability, and Combinations (averages, median, mode, range, stdev, rate, factorials, probability, permutations and combinations, groups) - 117 questions
- Quant: Geometry (lines and angles, triangles, quadraliterlas, circles, 3D figures, coordinate geometry, inscribed figures and shaded regions) - 100 questions
Quant Subtotal: 450
- Verbal: RC - 30 passages and 150 questions (5 questions per passage)
- Verbal: SC (subject/verb agreement, tenses, pronouns, parallel, modifiers, idioms, mixed) - 175 questions
- Verbal: CR (weaken, strengthen, assumption, inference, evaluate, ID reasoning, resolve/explain, mixed) - 159 questionss
Verbal Subtotal: 484
Total: 934 + diagnostic test (78) = 1,012

I am giving Kudos for these sections: factorials, probability, combinations, groups, Yes/No DS, assumption, and parallel structure questions. These areas are often neglected by test prep companies and I am thrilled to see a guide that actually addresses these.

Issues I have with this book:
- ERRORS, ERRORS, ERRORS - comes up as an issue. They must have really hurried it.
- Random House used cheap paper - as always
- RC section is structured by topic (humanities, science, etc rather than by type of questions)
- Verbal questions are a bit off (esp. CR) but that's to be expected
- Could use more 700-level questions but there are a few in each section

See my other reviews for overview of the latest GMAT Books!

"1 star" - Errors + misprints = this book / By A. Reshetnyak

It might have been a good preparation tool, as it has plenty of good questions. Unfortunately, almost each page has an error that makes this book useless.

"1 star" - Rife with errors and typos / By GMAT Student "CB"

I wanted to second the previous poster. This book is rife with errors and typos, which is both frustrating and detrimental to one's preparation process. There are so many errors that you can't trust the "correct" answers in the back when you're checking your work - which of course defeats the entire purpose of practice exercises.

In short, use this book only as a LAST resort. The Official Guides, Kaplan, and Barrons are all of a much higher quality than the Princeton Review GMAT book.

"1 star" - LOTS OF TYPOS AND ERRORS IN THE BOOK / By S. Robinson "Spencer"

This book looks like it was not proof read. For example, pages 346 and 347 (coordinate geometry drill) ask the question: "In the figure above..." yet there is no figure above making the questions useless. Page 195 gives the answer to question 5 as "A" but in the explanation, it notes that A is incorrect and should be marked out. These are two of about 25 errors I have found so far - I didn't start keeping track until about half way through the book.

Kaplan books have proven to be much more helpful because they explain answers and the questions better represent what you will see on the real test.

"4 stars" - Review of GMAT questions / By K. Unger "MegaReader"

This was a great prep book that worked well after reading a more "disection" book of the GMAT and it's questions.

"5 stars" - ideal test prep text... / By Jillian T. Timothy

The perfect text with adequate questions and helpful strategies to use as preparation for the GMAT.