MAT Exam Prep 2026–2027
The Complete Miller Analogies Test Study Guide with 600+ Practice Questions, Full-Length Timed Tests, Detailed Answer Explanations, and Proven Strategies for Graduate School AdmissionBy Sani Sulaiman
Length5h 47m
About this audiobook
Most MAT prep books test what you already know. This one builds the skill that actually moves your score.
The Miller Analogies Test doesn't reward memorization — it rewards pattern recognition, and pattern recognition can be trained. This complete study guide is built around a single organizing framework: master the twelve relationship categories that govern every analogy on the exam, and content review across humanities, science, math, social science, and general knowledge becomes dramatically easier to apply under timed pressure.
Inside, you'll find:
600+ practice questions with fully worked answer explanations — not just the correct choice, but why every wrong answer fails
A complete domain-by-domain review: literature, fine arts, mathematics, natural science, psychology and economics, history and geography, idioms and everyday reasoning
The twelve-category relationship taxonomy that turns unfamiliar analogies into solvable patterns, plus a bridge-sentence method for decoding any pairing on sight
Advanced distractor training — the four ways test-makers build tempting wrong answers, and the elimination sequence that beats them
A full-length, 100-item timed practice examination, plus a second 60-item timed set in the appendix, both scored and diagnosed by content area
Timing and triage strategy for the computer-based format, including a three-pass method and test-day execution routine
EXAM TIP, STUDY TIP, REAL-WORLD APPLICATION, and GLOBAL CONSIDERATIONS callouts throughout, plus hands-on exercises and chapter review sets to lock in every concept before you move on
Whether your test date is six weeks out or six days out, this guide gives you a sequenced path, real practice under real conditions, and the reasoning skill that separates a passing score from a standout one.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length5 hrs 47 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
64Physics: Force, Energy, and Named Laws
2Foreword
65Hands-On Exercise: Structure-Function Speed Drill
3Preface
66Chapter Summary
4Acknowledgments
67Key Terms
5Introduction: How to Use This Book
68Review Questions
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6Chapter 1: What the MAT Actually Measures
69Critical Thinking Questions
7A Sixty-Minute Reasoning Sprint
70Chapter 8: Psychology, Economics, and Sociology
8How the Score Actually Works
71Psychology: Theorist to Theory
9The Four Content Domains, and Why They Overlap More Than You Think
72Economics: Supply, Demand, and Market Structure
10Building Your Study Calendar
73Sociology: Structure and Group Dynamics
11Hands-On Exercise: Diagnostic Baseline
74Hands-On Exercise: Theorist-Theory-Concept Chain
12Chapter Summary
75Chapter Summary
13Key Terms
76Key Terms
14Review Questions
77Review Questions
15Critical Thinking Questions
78Critical Thinking Questions
16Chapter 2: The Anatomy of an Analogy
79Chapter 9: History and Geography Across Time and Place
17The Bridge Sentence: One Tool for Every Item
80Documents, Treaties, and the Conflicts They Ended or Caused
18The Twelve Reliable Relationship Categories
81Figures and Their Defining Act
19Direction and Symmetry: The Trap That Catches Careless Readers
82Geography: Feature-to-Region and Category-to-Member
20Hands-On Exercise: Category Sort
83Hands-On Exercise: Document-Figure-Region Triangulation
21Chapter Summary
84Chapter Summary
22Key Terms
85Key Terms
23Review Questions
86Review Questions
24Critical Thinking Questions
87Critical Thinking Questions
25Chapter 3: Vocabulary Under Pressure
88Chapter 10: General Knowledge and Everyday Reasoning
26Why Vocabulary Study Should Not Mean Memorizing a List
89The Fifth Thread: What 'General Knowledge' Actually Means Here
27Root, Prefix, and Suffix Triage
90Idioms and Figurative Language, Used Sparingly
28Degree, Connotation, and the Intensity Ladder
91Everyday Objects, Tools, and Professional Convention
29Hands-On Exercise: Root Decomposition Drill
92Hands-On Exercise: Profession-Tool-Workplace Triangulation
30Chapter Summary
93Chapter Summary
31Key Terms
94Key Terms
32Review Questions
95Review Questions
33Critical Thinking Questions
96Critical Thinking Questions
34Chapter 4: Literature, Language, and the Humanities
97Chapter 11: Advanced Relationship Patterns and Tricky Distractors
35Author-to-Work: The Highest-Yield Literary Pattern
98Double-Relationship Items: When One Bridge Sentence Is Not Enough
36Literary Devices from a Defining Example
99Four Distractor Design Patterns
37Movements in Chronological and Stylistic Relation
100A Systematic Elimination Sequence for Genuinely Hard Items
38Hands-On Exercise: Author-Work-Movement Chains
101Hands-On Exercise: Distractor Pattern Identification
39Chapter Summary
102Chapter Summary
40Key Terms
103Key Terms
41Review Questions
104Review Questions
42Critical Thinking Questions
105Critical Thinking Questions
43Chapter 5: Fine Arts, Music, and Architecture
106Chapter 12: Timing, Triage, and Test-Day Execution
44Visual Art: Movement, Artist, Technique
107The Three-Pass Triage Strategy
45Musical Periods and Representative Composers
108Time Checkpoints: Catching Pace Problems Before They Compound
46Architecture: Style to Defining Element
109Computer-Based Test Navigation
47Hands-On Exercise: Cross-Domain Movement Map
110The Night Before and the Morning Of
48Chapter Summary
111Hands-On Exercise: Full Triage Rehearsal
49Key Terms
112Chapter Summary
50Review Questions
113Key Terms
51Critical Thinking Questions
114Review Questions
52Chapter 6: Mathematics Without a Calculator
115Critical Thinking Questions
53Conceptual, Not Computational
116Chapter 13: Full-Length Practice Examination
54Structural Position in Operations
117Instructions Before You Begin
55Geometry: Shape, Property, and Classification
118The Examination — 100 Items
56Hands-On Exercise: Operation and Shape Chart Drill
119Scoring and Diagnostic Guidance
57Chapter Summary
120Chapter Summary
58Key Terms
121Conclusion: From Reasoning to Result
59Review Questions
122Appendix A: Exam Objective Map and Second Practice Set: Second Full-Length Timed Practice Set (60 Items)
60Critical Thinking Questions
123Appendix B: Frequently Asked Questions and Further Reading
61Chapter 7: Natural Science — Biology, Chemistry, and Physics
124Frequently Asked Questions
62Biology: Structure, Function, and Process
125Further Reading and Resources
63Chemistry: Atoms, Bonds, and States
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