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  • GRE for Dummies
  • Written by author Suzee Vlk
  • Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1995/03/27
  • As a requirement for admission to just about every graduate program, the GRE also may be one of the most important standardized tests you ever have to take. Now, with The GRE For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you can prepare for the GRE without gett
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Introduction

Why You Need This Book
How to Get Your Money's Worth Out of This Book
Pardon Me for Having a Life: Who Has Time for This?
Time required to go through the GRE lectures
Time required to go through the practice GREs
Part I: An Aerial View: Putting the GRE into Perspective
Chapter 1: Know Your Enemy: What the GRE Looks Like
Gimme a Break! The GRE Intermission
The Computer Adaptive Test
Beat the Clock: Timing Tips
What to Take to the GRE
What Not to Take to the GRE
Isn't That Special? Unusual Circumstances
Everyone Wants to Score
How scores are determined
What is a good score?
Number of correct answers needed for specific scores
Deja Vu All Over Again: Repeating the Test
Can You Use Older Scores?
Part II: A Word to the Wise: Verbal Questions
Chapter 2: Starting with the Easy Stuff: Analogies
If Only All Relationships Were This Easy: The Format
Approaching Perfection
Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You: Traps, Tricks, and Tips
Turn a verb into an infinitive
Identify the part of speech of the question word
Look for the salient features of a word
Backing into it
Identify common relationships
Use roots, prefixes, and suffixes
The Terminator: Eliminating Dumb Answers
Deja Vu Review
Chapter 3: The Dirty Dozen: Analogy Practice Questions
Chapter 4: If Opposites Attract, Why Are Antonyms So Repulsive?
Is That All There Is? The Format
Let's Get This Over with Fast: The Approach
What to Do When You Ain't Got a Clue
Bad Things Come in Small Packages: Tricks, Traps, and Tips
Ignore the synonym
Use roots, prefixes, and suffixes
Memorize connotation cards
Don't anticipate and misread
Peroration (A Summing Up)
Chapter 5: Unattractive Opposites: Antonym Practice Questions
Chapter 6: Finish What You Start: Sentence Completions
What Sentence Completion Questions Look Like
Looking at the Sentence and Drawing a Blank
Read the entire sentence
Predict words to fit the blanks
Insert the answer choices
TNT: DynamiteTraps 'n Tricks
Connections count
Use your crystal ball
Guess and go
Getting Back to Your Roots
A Sense of Completion: Review
Approaches
Tricks
Chapter 7: Reality Check: Sentence Completion Practice Questions
Chapter 8: Readings That Can Affect Your Future: Blood Pressure, Astrology, and GRE
Why Do They Call It Reading Comprehension If I Don't Understand a Thing I've Read?
The Three Commonly Tested Reading Passages
Beam me up, Scotty! Biological and physical science passages
It's not a disease: The social sciences passage
Gimme a break, I'm only human: The humanities passages
Last Things First: Reading the Questions before the Passages
All or Nothing: Questions You Should Always Do; Questions You Should Never Do
It's the attitude, Dude: The attitude or tone question
What's the big idea: Main idea or best title
Don't pester me with details: The detail or fact question
The few to do: Mini review
The power of positive thinking: Negative or exception questions
Toga! Toga! Toga! The Roman numeral question
The two to zoom through: Mini review
The Swing Vote: Extending the Author's Reasoning
Something up My Sleeve: Tricks for Making Life a Little Easier
Be positive or neutral, not negative
Choose answers containing key words
Be wishy-washy, not dramatic
Correct answers are usually a little above or a little below the key words or indicated line numbers
Chapter 9: Practice What I Preach: Reading Comprehension Practice Questions
Passage I
Passage II
Part III: Two Years of Math in 58 Pages: The Dreaded Math Review
Chapter 10: More Figures Than a Beauty Pageant: Geometry Review
You Gotta Have an Angle: Angles
Triangle Trauma: Triangles
Similar figures
Area
Pythagorean theorem
Pythagorean triples
Thanks 4 Nothing: Quadrilaterals
Quaint quads: Bizarre quadrilaterals
Leftovers again: Shaded-area problems
Missing Parrots and Other Polly-Gones: More Polygons
Total interior angle measure
One interior angle
Volume
Total surface area (TSA)
I'm Too Much of a Klutz for Coordinate Geometry
Running Around in Circles
Chapter 11: Gotta Catch Some (Xs, Ys, and) Zs: Algebra and Other Sleeping Aids
The Powers That Be: Bases and Exponents
Keep It in Proportion: Ratios
Things Aren't What They Seem: Symbolism
Abracadabra: Algebra
Curses! FOILed again
Fact-or fiction: Factoring
Too Hip to Be Square: Roots and Radicals
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Inside out
Probably Probability
Chapter 12: Miscellaneous Math You Probably Already Know
DIRTy Math: Time, Rate, and Distance
It All Averages Out: Averages
Missing term average problem
Weighted averages
Percentage Panic
Life has its ups and downs: Percent increase/decrease
Ready, Sets, Go: Number Sets
Prime and Composite Numbers
I'm All Mixed Up: Mixture Problems
Greed Is Great: Interest Problems
All Work and No Play: Work Problems
Reading between the Lines: Absolute Value
Smooth Operator: Order of Operations
Measuring Up: Units of Measurement
What's the Point: Decimals
Adding and subtracting decimals
Multiplying decimals
Dividing decimals
Broken Hearts, Broken Numbers: Fractions
Adding or subtracting
Multiplying fractions
Dividing fractions
Mixed numbers
The Stats Don't Lie: Statistics
Median
Mode
Range
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Graphs
Part IV: Your Number's Up: Math Questions
Chapter 13: The Incomparable Quantitative Comparisons
Where Did All the Answers Go? The QC Format
As Easy as ΒΌ: Approaching QC Questions
Gotchas and Other Groaners: Tips, Traps, and Tricks
As unbalanced as the rest of us
No scale, no sale
Win, lose, or draw
Picture perfect
Been there, done that
Six of one, a half dozen of the other
Keep plugging away
Looking like a hundred bucks
Get outta that rut
Familiarity Breeds Content(ment): A Review
Approach
Tricks
Chapter 14: Putting It All Together: QC Practice Questions
Chapter 15: Real Math at Last: Problem Solving
Strategic Planning: The Attack Strategy
Five Commonsense Suggestions
Easy problems often have easy answers
Eliminate illogical (dumb) answer choices
Don't choose a "close enough" answer
Don't be afraid to skip around
Give your pencil a workout
I'm Sure I Know You from Somewhere: A Quick Review
Approach
Tricks
Chapter 16: A Chance to Show Off: Problem-Solving Practice Questions
Part V: Getting into Analysis: Analytical Ability
Chapter 17: A Section Only Mr. Spock Could Love: Analytical Ability
Fun and Games: The Format
Logic Games: Analytical Reasoning
You Can't Tell the Players without a Program
Picture This: The Diagram
Artifices, Ruses, and Wiles: A Trap by Any Other Name Still Stinks
It Makes Sense to Me: Logical Reasoning
When Nothing is Reason-able: Tricks and Traps
The New Kid on the Block: Analysis of Explanations
A 50-50 chance: The answer choices
Suggestions and Strategems
All Good Things Must End: Review
Analytical Reasoning
Logical Reasoning
Analysis of Explanations
Chapter 18: Just How Logical Are You? Analytical Ability Practice Questions
Part VI: It All Comes Down to This: Full-Length Practice GREs
Chapter 19: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part I: Practice Exam 1
Answer Sheet
Section 1
Section 5
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Answer Key for Practice Exam 1
Chapter 20: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Chapter 21: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day, Part II: Practice Exam 2
Answer Sheet
Section 1
Section 5
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Answer Key for Practice Exam 2
Scoring Worksheet GRE
Analytical
GRE Analytical Score Chart
Math
GRE Math Score Chart
Verbal
GRE Verbal Score Chart
Chapter 22: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Part VII: The Part of Tens
Chapter 23: Ten Wrong Rumors about the GRE
Chapter 24: Ten Dumb Things You Can Do to Mess Up Your GRE
Chapter 25: Ten Relaxation Techniques You Can Try Before and During the GRE
Index
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