Woldoff - 1,001 GRE Practice Questions for Dummies (+ Free Online Practice)

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1. Table of Contents

Dont take the Dummies thing personally youre obviously no dummy. You made it through high school with high enough grades and test scores to get into college. You then graduated to join the elite group of approximately 30 percent of U.S. citizens who hold bachelors degrees, and some of you even have masters degrees. And now youre about to take your education further. Between you and your goal is the GRE: a test designed solely to challenge your ability to remember everything youve forgotten since high school material you havent touched in years.

To clear this hurdle, you need some practice along with pointers of how best to answer the questions. This book provides that and more: It goes beyond providing relevant practice questions by showing simple and effective ways to solve the seemingly challenging GRE problems.

Either way, this book helps you identify subject areas you need to work on so that you can practice them until youre a pro, and thus prepare yourself for test day. If you get a problem wrong, dont just read the answer explanation and move on. Instead, come back to the problem and solve it again, this time avoiding the mistake that you made the first time. This is how you improve your skills and learn to solve the problems correctly and easily. Whatever you do, stay positive. The challenging problems in this book arent meant to discourage you.

Rather, theyre meant to show you how to solve them so that you can practice and master them.

• Sentence completion: These questions have sentences with one, two, or three words missing, and you have to select the word or words that logically complete the sentence.
• Reading comprehension: The GRE gives you a reading passage along with two to five questions based on the passage. The questions challenge your ability to discern the purpose of the passage and the significance of the details.
• Argument analysis: The GRE provides a short argument in the form of a passage and then asks you to select an answer that would either strengthen or weaken the argument. You may also have to define the roles of bolded sentences or select a sentence that serves a specific purpose.

• Arithmetic: These questions are based on core arithmetic concepts, including prime numbers, absolute value, decimals, fractions, and ratios. Dont be fooled by the simple nature: these questions can be as challenging as any that you find on the GRE.
• Geometry: Geometry covers basic shapes, such as triangles, circles, and squares.

  These questions also go into basic 3-D shapes, including cylinders and boxes, but no prisms, spheres, or cones. The GRE sticks to its limited scope of math concepts.

• Argument analysis: The GRE provides a short argument in the form of a passage and then asks you to select an answer that would either strengthen or weaken the argument. You may also have to define the roles of bolded sentences or select a sentence that serves a specific purpose.
• Algebra: These questions are extensions of arithmetic, going into exponents, square roots, and numeric sequences. They also explore variations of solving for x and linear equations having x and y.
• Word problems: No set of word problems is complete without the two trains coming from Chattanooga. These questions cover those, along with weighted averages, probability, Venn diagrams, permutations, and combinations.
• Graphs and data interpretation: The GRE problems feature variations of median, range, and standard deviation concepts. It also asks challenging tables and graphs questions where, like the reading comprehension, you are given a set of graphs along with three questions based on those graphs.