If you are pursuing an online MBA, at some point you will need to take the GMAT, the Graduate Management Admission Test. How well you perform on the GMAT will help determine your acceptance into certain business schools.

Here are three books to help you prepare for the GMAT exam:

Cracking the GMAT, 2010 Edition (by Princeton Review)

This book is an essential resource and is filled with tips, techniques, and strategies to do well on the GMAT. It also contains sample tests, questions, and information about how to be accepted into the best business schools.

Master the GMAT, 2010 (Peterson’s, by Mark Allen Stewart)

This guide to the GMAT includes a companion CD, with 9 full-length practice tests and essay-writing analysis.

Kaplan GMAT 2010: Strategies, Practice, and Review

This book includes hundreds of test practice questions, detailed answers with explanations, score-raising strategies, and 2 full length practice tests.