The Official Guide to the GRE Revised General Test, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Educational Testing Service

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 577
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Get the only official guide to the GRE® revised General Test that comes straight from the test makers!

If you're looking for the best, most authoritative guide to the GRE revised General Test, you've found it! The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test is the only GRE guide specially created by ETS--the people who actually make the test. It's packed with everything you need to do your best on the test--and move toward your graduate or business school degree.

Only ETS can show you exactly what to expect on the test, tell you precisely how the test is scored, and give you hundreds of authentic test questions for practice! That makes this guide your most reliable and accurate source for everything you need to know about the GRE revised General Test.

No other guide to the GRE revised General Test gives you:

• Four complete, real tests--two in the book and two on CD-ROM
• Hundreds of authentic test questions--so you can study with the real thing
• In-depth descriptions of the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures plus valuable tips for answering each question type
• Detailed overview of the two types of Analytical Writing essay tasks including scored sample responses and actual raters' comments
• Everything you need to know about the test, straight from the test makers!

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Welcome......Page 3
Contents......Page 8
How to Use This Book/Software Package......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Structure and Content of the Test......Page 15
Test-taking Strategies for the Computer-based Test......Page 17
Test-taking Strategies for the Paper-based Test......Page 19
Understanding GRE Scoring......Page 20
Overview of the Analytical Writing Measure......Page 24
General Strategies......Page 25
Analyze an Issue Task......Page 26
Analyze an Argument Task......Page 38
GRE Scoring Guide: Analyze an Issue......Page 50
GRE Scoring Guide: Analyze an Argument......Page 52
Score Level Descriptions......Page 54
Verbal Reasoning Question Types......Page 56
4. GRE® Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions......Page 66
SET 1. Discrete Questions: Easy......Page 67
SET 2. Reading Comprehension Questions: Easy......Page 69
SET 3. Discrete Questions: Medium......Page 73
SET 4. Reading Comprehension Questions: Medium......Page 76
SET 5. Discrete Questions: Hard......Page 81
SET 6. Reading Comprehension Questions: Hard......Page 84
Answer Key......Page 88
Answers and Explanations......Page 90
Overview of the Quantitative Reasoning Measure......Page 120
Quantitative Reasoning Question Types......Page 121
Using the Calculator......Page 142
Mathematical Conventions for the Quantitative Reasoning Measure of the GRE revised General Test......Page 146
6. GRE® Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions......Page 156
SET 1. Discrete Questions: Easy......Page 158
SET 2. Discrete Questions: Medium......Page 163
SET 3. Discrete Questions: Hard......Page 168
SET 4. Data Interpretation Sets......Page 174
Answer Key......Page 177
Answers and Explanations......Page 179
7. GRE® Math Review......Page 220
1. Arithmetic......Page 221
2. Algebra......Page 235
3. Geometry......Page 261
4. Data Analysis......Page 276
8. GRE® Practice Test 1......Page 316
Section 1: Analytical Writing......Page 317
Section 2: Analytical Writing......Page 319
Section 3: Verbal Reasoning......Page 322
Section 4: Verbal Reasoning......Page 331
Section 5: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 342
Section 6: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 350
Evaluating Your Performance......Page 358
Answer Key......Page 360
Score Conversion Table......Page 364
Section 1: Analyze an Issue......Page 366
Section 2: Analyze an Argument......Page 373
Section 3: Verbal Reasoning......Page 380
Section 4: Verbal Reasoning......Page 394
Section 5: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 409
Section 6: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 426
9. GRE® Practice Test 2......Page 444
Section 1: Analytical Writing......Page 445
Section 2: Analytical Writing......Page 447
Section 3: Verbal Reasoning......Page 450
Section 4: Verbal Reasoning......Page 459
Section 5: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 469
Section 6: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 477
Evaluating Your Performance......Page 486
Answer Key......Page 488
Score Conversion Table......Page 492
Section 1: Analyze an Issue......Page 494
Section 2: Analyze an Argument......Page 502
Section 3: Verbal Reasoning......Page 509
Section 4: Verbal Reasoning......Page 525
Section 5: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 540
Section 6: Quantitative Reasoning......Page 559
POWERPREP® II......Page 577