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CD Companion for the GMAT
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User’s Guide
System Requirements
You will be able to take maximum advantage of all facets of the CD if you use it on a
computer with the following features:
• Windows 98/98SE/NT4.0/ME/2000/XP
• Pentium 266MHz or higher
• 16MB RAM
• 15MB free hard disk space
• 4x CD-ROM
• 640 x 480 x 256 colors (thousands or millions recommended)
NOTE: This software is NOT designed to operate on Apple Macintosh (Mac)
computers.
Installation:
1. Check system requirements (see System Requirements section above).
2. Start your Windows-operated PC.
3. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. You should get an installer menu immediately
upon inserting the CD-ROM into your drive. If you do not (or if you have Autorun
disabled), go to Step 4.
4. From the Start menu, select Run and type x:\gmtsetup.exe (where x: is your CD-ROM
drive).
5. Press ENTER.
Note: When installing this CDROM on Windows XP, be sure to install as "Administrator"
so that the installer successfully completes.
Tech Support
If you have any questions or problems that don’t seem to be covered in this manual,
please visit the “Customer Service” area of our website at
www.kaptest.com/support
.
Getting Started
The Menus
• The File Menu lets you set up your Printer and Exit the program.
• The GoTo menu will take you to the Tests.
• The Help menu will take you to the Test Tutorial.
Testing
Use the section-length (covering one particular question type) and full-length tests to
practice, test yourself on content and build up your stamina.
Taking a Test
Before beginning a test, you should have scratch paper and a pencil.
You do not need a clock as the program will time you.
To begin a test, click on the test from the main screen. If you have already
taken the test, you will have a choice of reviewing your results or resetting the test.
Resetting a test will erase your previous work and score and will allow you to retest. You
will be offered a short tutorial before beginning your first test. (If you would like to view
the tutorial at any other time, choose
Help/Test Tutorial
from the drop-down menu.)
Testing Screen
The computer-adaptive test (CAT) screen works just like the computer-adaptive test that
you will see on test day. The screen contains a Toolbar on the bottom, below the
question screen. Use the Toolbar to move from one question to another and to indicate
when you have finished a section. The window above the toolbar shows the question. If
the question is based on a passage, the passage will appear to the left of the question. If
the question or passage is longer than the screen, scroll bars will appear.
As you begin each section, the first question will be displayed. The question number and
the section name are both displayed at the top of the testing screen. You must answer
the question on screen before another question is displayed.
Selecting an Answer Choice
To select an answer choice, click on the choice or on the bubble to its left. The bubble
will darken. Clicking again, or clicking on another choice, will deselect your first choice.
The program will keep track of your answers and whether you change wrong answers to
right or vice versa. After selecting your answer choice, use the
Next
button, then the
Answer Confirm
button, to move on to the next question. If you have only clicked
Next
,
you can change your answer. Once you click
Answer Confirm
, however, your answer is
permanent and the next question is automatically displayed.
Performance Analysis Screen
The Analysis offered at the end of a test is one of the unique features of this software. It
allows you to evaluate the success of your test-taking strategies, and can tell you things
you may not have suspected about your performance. The information is presented to
you in tables, analyzing your performance by question type.
This allows you to compile your own personalized strategy plan for test day. Keep in
mind, of course, that the analysis is based on a small amount of data. Nevertheless, you
should examine the analysis closely. Once you finish an exam, you can view your
results.
Using the Analysis Information
The
Performance
table provides a percentage score in bar graph format.
The
Question Types
table helps you determine your areas of relative strength and
weakness and to plan your course of preparation leading up to Test Day. The tables also
provide breakdowns of specific question subtypes, so that you can precisely focus your
study where it will do the most good.
The
Number Correct/Number Incorrect/Number not reached
gives a number
breakdown of your score.
The
Performance on five questions on which you worked longest
table helps you
determine where you may be losing time.
The
Switching Answers
table lets you know how good you are at second-guessing
your answers. The tables show the number of times you switched from an incorrect
answer to a correct one, and the number of times you switched away from the correct
response. Too much answer changing is not helpful—even if you’re switching to the
correct response, choosing it directly saves time. But sometimes you’ll have to decide
whether to go with your first instinct or your second (or third) opinion. This analysis
tracks your success at switching. Reading these tables will give you a better idea
whether to trust that impulse to switch on the next test you face.
Printing
You can print any of the Analysis screens by moving to the screen you want to print,
then clicking the Print button. To select or set up your printer, choose Printer Setup from
the File menu.
Explanations
To view explanations to a test, choose the
Explain Answers
button from the
Analysis
screen. Within a section, you can use the
List Review
button to move quickly from one
question to another. Clicking on
List Review
and then
GoTo
gives you two options: the
Summary
view (the default) shows you the question number and whether you answered
the question correctly. You can easily move to your next incorrect response by just
double-clicking on the question number. Clicking the
Details
button in the
GoTo
screen
shows your response, the correct response, your confidence level, the question timing,
and the category of the question. You will not always need this level of detail, but it will
prove handy when (for instance) you want to review all your
Unsure
questions, for
example.
The Explanation Screen
Each
Explanation Window
shows the question and its explanation as well as your
answer. To view passages accompanying questions or the passage explanation, use the
pull-down menu. You may quit
Explanations Mode
by clicking on the Main Menu button
at any point. To return to the explanations of a test you took previously, select the test
from the
GoTo
menu, and choose
View Results
.
Help
To enter the
Help
system, use the
Help
pull down menu. The pull down menu offers the
Test Tutorial
.
KAPLAN CD COMPANION for the GMAT - USER’S GUIDE
Acknowledgments
Reading passages in these tests, as on the actual test, are condensed and adapted from
published material. The ideas contained in them do not necessarily represent the opinions of
Kaplan, Inc. To make the test suitable for testing purposes, we may in some cases have altered
the style or emphases of the original. Kaplan, Inc. wishes to thank the following for permission to
reprint excerpts from published material used with test questions appearing herein:
“The Multisectoral Framework for the Analysis of Labor Mobility and Development in LDC’s: an
Application to Post-War Puerto Rico,” by Carlos E. Santiago and Erik Thornbeke,
Economic
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