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Introduction
Part I: An Aerial View: Putting the GRE into Perspective
- 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 II: A Word to the Wise: Verbal Questions
- 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 III: Two Years of Math in 58 Pages: The Dreaded Math Review
- 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 IV: Your Number's Up: Math Questions
- 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 V: Getting into Analysis: Analytical Ability
- 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 VI: It All Comes Down to This: Full-Length Practice GREs
- 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 VII: The Part of Tens
- 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
Index
- 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
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