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Acknowledgement

In 1967, Barrons Educational Series published How to Prepare for the GRE by Samuel Brownstein and Mitchel Weiner. Today, fifty years later, with the publication of this 22nd Edition of Barrons GRE , we are pleased to announce that Lexy Green, granddaughter of original co-author Mitchel Weiner, has joined the Barron's team as contributing author. In this new edition, Ms. Green, Director of Forensics at The College Preparatory School in Oakland, California, and a nationally-known debate coach, brings her insights to the section on Analytical Writing.

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Contents

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BOOK PASSAGES

Page 32: From Classic Authors of the Gilded Age by Darrel Abel. Copyright 1963 by Barrons Educational Series.

Page 36: From the National Biological Information Infrastructure.

Page 128: From So Many Female Rivals by Christine Froula, The New York Times Book Review , February 7, 1988.

Page 129: Ladislas Segy, African Sculpture Speaks, Dover Publications, New York, 1958. By permission of Helena Segy.

Page 582: From Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century . Copyright 1982 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.

Page 625: From Vol. 15 of Americas , Copyright 1963 by the Organization of American States.

Page 635: From Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Years , edited by Clayborne Carson et al. Copyright 1987 by Penguin Books. Blackside, Inc. 1991, with permission.

ONLINE EXAM PASSAGES

From Black History and the Historical Profession , 19151980 . Copyright 1986, by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission of the author and the University of Illinois Press.

From India and Democracy by Sir George Schuster and Guy Wint, p. 10. Copyright 1941 by Macmillan and Co.

From James Lind and the Cure of Scurvy by R. E. Hughes, courtesy of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

From What Are Greenhouse Gases? by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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A s a prospective graduate student concerned with professional advancement, you know the importance of using good tools and drawing on solid research. In this Twenty-second Edition of Barrons GRE , we offer you both.

This revision contains the fruits of our close study of the 2011 changes to the GRE General Test. We have scrutinized hundreds of actual GRE questions, traced dozens of GRE reading passages to their sources and analyzed subsets of questions by order of difficulty and question type. We have gone through all the topics in the analytical writing section, categorizing the actual issues you will encounter on your test and analyzing the argument passages, pinpointing their logical flaws. In the process, we have come up with the following features, which should make this Twenty-second Edition particularly helpful to you:

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TYPICAL GRE QUESTIONS ANALYZED

We will take you step by step through more than 1,000 practice verbal and mathematical questions that simulate actual GRE questions, showing you how to solve them and how to avoid going wrong.

TESTING TACTICS

We provide you with dozens of proven testing tactics that will help you attack the different types of questions on the GRE.

HIGH-FREQUENCY WORD LIST

This edition contains the revised 320-word High-Frequency Word List320 critical words from abate to zealot that have occurred and recurred on actual published GREsplus Barrons GRE Master Word List, your guide to the level of vocabulary expected of graduate school students.

COMPREHENSIVE MATHEMATICS REVIEW

We present you with extensive mathematical review of all the topics that you need to know. This is especially valuable for college students and adults who havent taken math since high school.

GRE-MODELED TESTS

We have created for you a compact Diagnostic Test that will enable you to pinpoint your areas of weakness right away and concentrate your review on subjects in which you need the most work, plus two Model Tests, all with answers completely explained, that in format, difficulty, and content echo todays GRE. Two additional tests are available online at http://barronsbooks.com/tp/gre/e51hsp4 .

COMPUTER GRE UPDATE

In this edition we will introduce you to the latest version of the computer-delivered GRE and explain everything you need to know about how to take the computerized GRE.

ANALYTICAL WRITING UPDATE

We provide you with an introduction to the GRE analytical writing section, familiarizing you with the range of topics covered and giving you helpful hints on how to write clear, cogent essays in no time at all.

This Twenty-second Edition once more upgrades what has long been a standard text. It reflects the contributions of numerous teachers, editors, and coaches, and the dedication of the staff at Barrons. It also reflects the forensic and rhetorical skills of Lexy Green, Director of Debate at the College Preparatory School, who is joining our authorial team. We, the authors, are indebted to all these individuals for their ongoing efforts to make this book Americas outstanding GRE study guide.

TOTAL TIME: 4 HOURS

NOTE: Sections 2 through 6 can come in any orderfor example, Section 2 could be a Quantitative Ability section and the Experimental Section could be any section except Section 1. Although the Experimental Section will not count in your score, it will look identical to one of the other sectionsyou wont know which section it is, so you must do your best on every section of the test.