Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1: Getting Started with the GRE 5
Chapter 1: Knowing the GRE 7
Chapter 2: Planning Your Time 13
Chapter 3: Planning for Exam Day: Everything Outside the Exam 23
Part 2: Tackling the Verbal Section One Word at a Time 27
Chapter 4: Upping Your Best GRE Verbal Score 29
Chapter 5: What Are They Saying: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence 33
Chapter 6: Getting the Gist: Reading Comprehension 51
Chapter 7: Critical Thinking: Argument Analysis Questions 67
Chapter 8: Expanding Your Vocabulary to Boost Your Score 77
Part 3: Math You Thought You’d Never Need Again 97
Chapter 9: Raising Your Best GRE Math Score 99
Chapter 10: Working with Numbers and Operations 105
Chapter 11: Solving Algebra and Functions 129
Chapter 12: Drawing Geometry 157
Chapter 13: Simplifying Word Problems 191
Chapter 14: Interpreting Data and Graphs 213
Chapter 15: Comparing Quantities 235
Part 4: Getting the Essays Right 253
Chapter 16: Writing the Essays Well and Fast 255
Chapter 17: Practicing Your Essays 271
Part 5: Full-Length Practice Exams: Show Time 279
Chapter 18: Practice Exam 1 281
Chapter 19: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations 307
Chapter 20: Practice Exam 2 321
Chapter 21: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations 345
Chapter 22: Practice Exam 3 357
Chapter 23: Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations 383
Part 6: The Part of Tens 393
Chapter 24: Ten Key Facts about the GRE 395
Chapter 25: Ten Mistakes You Won’t Make (While Others Will) 399
Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Build Your Skills with the Online Practice Exams 403
Index 407