GRE Prep 2023 For Dummies with Online Practice

✍ Scribed by Ron Woldoff

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 451
• Edition: 11
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Prepare efficiently and effectively for the Graduate Record Examination

The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is the most widely accepted graduate-school admissions test in the world. Over half a million people take the test every year. GRE Prep 2023 For Dummies with Online Practice is filled with useful, hands-on practice materials to help you reach your goals on this standardized test. The book teaches the verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills required in graduate school and on the exam, so that you can get into the school of your choice ― even with a scholarship ― and start your journey towards the career that you want.

In the book, you’ll find:

• Updated strategies for acing text completion questions and learning words with common roots
• Practice for finding synonyms in sentence equivalence questions and argument analysis deconstructions
• Advanced techniques for reading comprehension questions
• Proven strategies for acing the math sections
• Step-by-step instructions for writing killer issue and argument essays

Perfect for prospective graduate students seeking to take the GRE, GRE Prep 2023 For Dummies with Online Practice is a must-read handbook containing detailed content information, strategies for improving your score and testing well, along with plenty of opportunities to practice what you’ve learned.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Getting Started with the GRE
Chapter 1 Knowing the GRE
Knowing the GRE Sections
Knowing the GRE Scores
Calculating your score
Checking your score
Seeing or canceling your scores
Taking advantage of the ScoreSelect option
Bringing the GRE into Your Comfort Zone
Getting familiar with what’s on the exam
Understanding the other admissions requirements
Using Old Scores
Chapter 2 Planning Your Time
Planning Your Prep Time
Planning your study time
Planning your practice time
Planning Your Exam Time
Planning your question time
Throwing a mental dart
Planning your intermission time
Planning your computer time
Planning Your Mental and Physical Time
Staying active
Eating well
Relaxing
Scheduling Your Exam
Scheduling for the testing center
Scheduling for home
Chapter 3 Planning for Exam Day: Everything Outside the Exam
Planning the Night Before
Knowing what to bring
Knowing what not to bring
Planning for Contingency
It’s Them, Not You: Testing under Adverse Conditions
Part 2 Tackling the Verbal Section One Word at a Time
Chapter 4 Upping Your Best GRE Verbal Score
Building Your Core Skills
Managing Your Time
Chapter 5 What Are They Saying: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence
Clinching Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence Questions
Keeping it straight
Trying it out
Developing Your Skills for Finding the Correct Answers
Interpreting the Text 101
Getting the gist of the text
Taking the Best and Only Approach
Interpret the text without looking at the answer choices
Complete the text with your own words
Eliminate wrong answer choices
Interpreting Trickier Sentences
Use transition words to get the gist of the phrases
Start with the second or third missing word
Getting Your Hands Dirty with Some Practice
Text Completion questions
Sentence Equivalence questions
Chapter 6 Getting the Gist: Reading Comprehension
Recognizing the Three Reading Comprehension Question Formats
Multiple-choice questions: Choose one answer
Multiple-choice questions: Choose one or more answers
Sentence-selection questions: Choose a sentence from the passage
Developing Strategies for Success
Using the context as your road map
Grasping the gist of the passage
Avoiding common traps
Answering the question yourself
Acing the Three Commonly Tested Reading Comprehension Passages
The biological and physical science passage
The social sciences passage
The humanities passage
The social sciences passage redux
Chapter 7 Critical Thinking: Argument Analysis Questions
Covering the Answer Choices
Reading the Question for What It’s Asking
Reading the Passage for What the Question Is Asking
Identifying the “because” and the “therefore”
Finding the unstated assumption
Exploring common logical fallacies
Answering the Question in Your Own Words
Eliminating Each Wrong Answer
Applying the process of elimination
Testing your skills
Chapter 8 Expanding Your Vocabulary to Boost Your Score
Brushing Up on Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots
Prefixes
Suffixes
Roots
Memorizing the GRE’s Most Common Vocabulary Words
Part 3 Math You Thought You’d Never Need Again
Chapter 9 Raising Your Best GRE Math Score
Managing Your Time
Typing an Answer
Selecting Two or More Answers
Choosing among three answers
Choosing among more than three answers
Selecting the Quantity That’s Greater
Chapter 10 Working with Numbers and Operations
Working with Integers, Factors, and Multiples
Working with Math Terms
Working with Prime and Composite Numbers
Working with the Units Digit
Working with Absolute Value
Working with one absolute value
Working with two absolute values
Working with Order of Operations
Working with Fractions
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying
Dividing
Working with mixed numbers and improper fractions
Cross-multiplying
Working with Decimals
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying
Dividing
Working with Percentages
Converting
Calculating percentage of change
Working with Factorials
Working with Ratios
Working with total numbers
Working with amounts in the ratio
Maintaining the ratio
Combining ratios
Chapter 11 Solving Algebra and Functions
Solving Bases and Exponents
Solving Math Operators
Solving for X
Solving for x with a number
Solving with the FOIL method
Factoring back out
Solving Square Roots and Radicals
Simplifying
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying and dividing
Simplifying first
Solving Coordinate Geometry
Solving common problems
Solving linear equations
Solving two linear equations
Solving graphed circles
Solving Patterns in a Sequence
Solving f(x) Functions
Chapter 12 Drawing Geometry
Drawing Lines and Angles
Drawing lines
Drawing angles
Measuring Polygons
Measuring total interior angles
Measuring one interior angle
Drawing Triangles
Drawing three types of triangles
Measuring key characteristics
Drawing perimeter and area
Measuring with the Pythagorean theorem
Drawing common right triangles
Drawing Quadrilaterals
Drawing Circles
Drawing parts of a circle
Drawing the circumference and area
Drawing the arc and sector
Drawing overlapping shapes
Drawing 3D Shapes
Drawing a cylinder
Drawing a rectangular solid
Drawing a cube
Chapter 13 Simplifying Word Problems
Simplifying the Steps
Simplifying Time and Distance
Simplifying Units of Measurement
Simplifying Averages
Simplifying missing-term averages
Simplifying evenly spaced integers
Simplifying weighted averages
Simplifying Work Problems
Simplifying Team-Work Problems
Simplifying Mixture Problems
Simplifying Sets and Groups
Simplifying the Venn diagram
Simplifying the sets formula
Simplifying Probability
Step #1: Set up the fraction
Step #2: Multiply consecutive probabilities
Step #3: Add either/or probabilities on a single event
Simplifying probability in sets and groups
Simplifying Counting Methods
Basic counting methods
When order matters: Permutations
When order doesn’t matter: Combinations
Chapter 14 Interpreting Data and Graphs
Interpreting Basic Stats
Interpreting the median
Interpreting the mode
Interpreting the range
Interpreting the mean
Interpreting standard deviation
Eyeballing standard deviation
Interpreting mean deviation
Interpreting the distribution curve
Interpreting Tables and Graphs
Interpreting tables
Interpreting graphs
Chapter 15 Comparing Quantities
Comparing Exact Answer Choices
Comparing Steps
Comparing via Strategy
Comparing similar appearances
Comparing drawings
Comparing concepts
Comparing identical terms
Comparing ranges
Comparing estimates
Comparing with Four Square
Comparing with a hundred
Comparing multiple unknowns
Part 4 Getting the Essays Right
Chapter 16 Writing the Essays Well and Fast
Setting Your Sights on a Perfect 6
What the essay scores really mean
Key methods to scoring well
Writing the Issue Essay
Step 1: Read and understand the prompt
Step 2: Identify examples you already know about the issue
Step 3: Take a position that’s in line with your examples
Step 4: Write your Issue essay
Tying everything together with smooth transitions
Writing the Argument Essay
Step 1: Read and understand the prompt
Step 2: Identify the position stated in the argument
Step 3: List the reasons given to support the stated position
Step 4: Identify the flawed assumptions behind each reason
Step 5: Write your essay
Chapter 17 Practicing Your Essays
Setting the Stage for a Realistic Experience
Writing an Issue Essay: Some Samples
Having trouble getting started? Begin by identifying some relevant laws
Sample essay — score 6 (outstanding)
Evaluator comments on the score 6 essay
Sample essay — score 4 (adequate)
Evaluator comments on the score 4 essay
Writing an Argument Essay: Some Samples
Having trouble getting started? Begin by finding the faulty assumptions
Sample essay — score 6 (outstanding)
Evaluator comments on the score 6 essay
Sample essay — score 4 (adequate)
Evaluator comments on the score 4 essay
Part 5 Full-Length Practice Exams: Show Time
Chapter 18 Practice Exam 1
Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 1
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Chapter 19 Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations
Analytical Writing Sections
Section 1: Verbal Reasoning
Section 2: Quantitative Reasoning
Section 3: Verbal Reasoning
Section 4: Quantitative Reasoning
Answer Key for Practice Exam 1
Chapter 20 Practice Exam 2
Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 2
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Chapter 21 Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations
Analytical Writing Sections
Section 1: Verbal Reasoning
Section 2: Quantitative Reasoning
Section 3: Verbal Reasoning
Section 4: Quantitative Reasoning
Answer Key for Practice Exam 2
Chapter 22 Practice Exam 3
Answer Sheet for Practice Exam 3
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Chapter 23 Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations
Analytical Writing Sections
Section 1: Verbal Reasoning
Section 2: Quantitative Reasoning
Section 3: Verbal Reasoning
Section 4: Quantitative Reasoning
Answer Key for Practice Exam 3
Part 6 The Part of Tens
Chapter 24 Ten Key Facts about the GRE
You May Return to Previous Questions in the Same Section
The GRE Doesn’t Penalize for Guessing
The GRE Uses a Percentile-Based Scoring System
Practice Makes All the Difference
You Must Prepare for the GRE
The GRE Is Different from the SAT and ACT
The GRE Also Measures Your Stamina and Performance under Pressure
The General GRE Is Not Program-Specific
You Can Practice the GRE on Your Own Computer
You Can’t Bring Anything into the Testing Center
Chapter 25 Ten Mistakes You Won’t Make (While Others Will)
You Won’t Cheat
You Won’t Run Out of Steam
You Won’t Neglect Your Breaks
You Won’t Dwell on Questions from Previous Sections
You Won’t Worry about the Time Limit
You Won’t Rush Through the Questions
You Definitely Won’t Choke on the Essays
You Won’t Fret Over the Hard Questions
You Won’t Take the Exam with a Friend
You Won’t Change Your Morning Routine
Chapter 26 Ten Ways to Build Your Skills with the Online Exams
Take an Exam in One Sitting to Build Stamina
Recognize the Mistakes You Make under Pressure
Get Used to Others Being in the Room
Make It a Dress Rehearsal
Get a Competitive Edge
Practice Your Test-Taking Strategies
Know the Exam Software
Get Used to Starting with the Essays
Find Your Areas of Focus
Review the Answers and Explanations
Index
EULA