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Summary: I scored 6.0
Review: After reading this book you get a better idea about what to write to get a good score. Even if you dont have time to read all the essays, reading a few will help you a lot. And if you can write the essays and compare to the ones in the book, you will get a fair idea about where you stand and what you need to improve upon.
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Summary: Pretty good book--but is it really necessary?
Review: 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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Summary: I scored 6.0
Review: I didn't want to waste much time studying for this part of the GMAT, and I spent less than 2 hours with this book and the list of questions printed out from the GMAC website, right before I took the exam - and that was enough, it put me in the right frame of mind to answer both AWA questions in the format the scorers look for, which gave me confidence going into the quantitative section. I scored a perfect 6.0 on both essays. I am a native English speaker and strong communicator, and I found this book to be a useful quick prep.
Rating: 
Summary: Oh Please
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Oh Please
Review: 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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Summary: The templates and reusable phrases are very useful.
Review: 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.
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Summary: The templates and reusable phrases are very useful.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good...but the latest essay questions are yet to be released
Review: This book only covers the old questions .. it does not contain the latest 50 questions..and in the online publication, the author says its available in the next edition..but the cover of 2 nd edition says it has all 50 latest included list of essays..but it really does not!!..there is lot of contradition for students who have spent there dollars on this it is really DISAPPOINTING....IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THE AUTHOR CAN PUBLISH THE LATEST ESSAY ANSWERS IN THE WEBPAGE FOR DOWNLOAD...
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Summary: Inside Story of GMAT E-rater
Review: This is a revised version of answers to GMAT AWA questions. However, the authors failed to add the latest questions and the content is almost the same as the second edition. I felt so disappointed at it. I don't recommend anyone who had the previous edition to buy it.
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Summary: for non-native english speakers &people who don't write much
Review: 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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