GRE prep .. With online practice
Book - 2023
"GRE Prep ... for dummies prepares you with the tools and test-taking strategies you need to score your highest on the Graduate Record Examination and begin your post-college journey. You'll find everything you need to know about the test itself--what's on it, how much time you have, and what to do when you run into stuff you don't know. Review detailed content information, then practice, practice, practice--with over 400 flashcards and 6 full-length practice exams. Plus, you'll have access to detailed study plans to help you manage your time wisely, even if test day is coming up sooner than you might hope. Don't worry, this Dummies guide will help you rock it on test day"--Amazon.com.
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2023]-
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- English
- Item Description
- Access to online content may be unavailable.
- Physical Description
- volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Publication Frequency
- Annual.
- ISBN
- 9781394255665
- 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
- Seeing the Scores
- Calculating your score
- Checking your score
- Seeing or canceling your scores
- Taking advantage of the ScoreSeiect option
- Bringing the GRE into Your Comfort Zone
- Getting familiar with what's on the exam
- Understanding the other admissions requirements
- Chapter 2. Planning Your Time
- Planning Your Prep Time
- Planning your long-term study time
- Planning your short-term study time
- Planning your last-minute study time
- Planning your practice time
- Planning Your Exam Time
- Planning your question time
- Throwing a mental dart
- Planning for no break 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 "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 Foursquare
- Comparing with a hundred
- Comparing multiple unknowns
- Part 4. Getting the Essay Right
- Chapter 16. Writing the Essay Well and Fast
- Setting Your Sights on a Perfect 6
- What the essay scores really mean
- Key methods to scoring well
- Writing the 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 essay
- Tying everything together with smooth transitions
- Chapter 17. Practicing Your Essay
- Setting the Stage for a Realistic Experience
- Writing an Essay: Some Samples
- Start by identifying some relevant examples
- 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
- Analytical Writing
- Chapter 19. Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations
- Analytical Writing
- 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
- Analytical Writing
- 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
- Part 6. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 22. 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 AH 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 23. Ten Mistakes You Won't Make (While Others Will)
- You Won't Cheat
- You Won't Run Out of Steam
- You Won't Scramble That Morning
- You Won't Dwell on Questions from Previous Sections
- You Won't Panic Over the Time Limit
- You Won't Rush Through the Questions
- You Definitely Won't Choke on the Essay
- 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 24. Ten Ways to Build Your Skills with the Online Practice Exams
- Build Your Stamina by Taking a Practice Exam in One Sitting
- 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 Essay
- Find Your Areas of Focus
- Review the Answers and Explanations
- Index