GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment (the GMAT Essay Section)

From this page you can link to detailed information about the GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA). You can also review some time-tested tips for writing your essay and for GMAT essay prep.

To help you learn how to write an effective GMAT essay, also available here are three top-scoring sample Analysis-of-an-Argument essays.

Widely recommended for GMAT prep:

GMAT book    The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 13th edition
Graduate Management Admission Council

From the test makers (GMAC), this book provides over 900 questions used on actual GMAT exams and keyed Web access to 50 exam questions for the new Integrated Reasoning section.