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Welcome to The Princeton Reviews MathWorkout for the GRE, the one-stop shop for all of the mathematical knowledge and practice youll need to effectively tackle the Math section of the GRE.

Youve bought this book, which means you may be one of many grad school candidates who are approaching the math, or quantitative, portion of the GRE with a little bit of trepidation. This might be for any of several reasons, including the following:

You come in contact with the word variable only when its used to describe the weather.

Your first thought about Pythagoras is that he might have been a character in The Lord of the Rings.

You regard standard deviation as more of a psychological problem than a mathematical one.

If any of the above pertain to you, youre definitely not alone.

But dont worry, thats what this book is all about. Its two main objectives are (1) to give you an overview of all of the math concepts you could see on the GRE, and (2) to give you simple strategies for handling even the most complex math you could encounter on test day.

The good news is that the GREs Math sections dont test anything that you learned after your sophomore year of high school, so the concepts arent extremely advanced.

The bad news is that the GREs Math sections dont test anything that you learned after your sophomore year of high school, so it may have been a long time since you studied them.

Thats largely why this book was written: to help you build up an impressive canon of math knowledge that will help you score your best on the quantitative portion.

The GRE supposedly was written so that graduate schools might get a better sense of an applicants ability to work in a postgraduate settinga goal that is lofty and unrealistic at best. The test doesnt even measure how intelligent you are; if you take a test-prep course and your score improves, does that mean youre any smarter? Nope. Yet you can improve your score just by learning about what to expect on the GRE.

Succeeding on the quantitative portion of the GREor any standardized math test, for that matteris as much about relearning math concepts as it is about modifying the way you think. There are several very important skills to cultivate when youre preparing to take the GRE, and each of them is attainable with the right guidance, a strong work ethic, and a healthy dose of optimism.