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    GRE® Prep 2024 For Dummies® with Online Practice Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, ww. wi ley .com Copyright © 2023 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at www. wiley .com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and may not be used without written permission. GRE is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service (ETS). This publication is not endorsed or approved by ETS. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is not associated with any product or vendor ‘mentioned in this book. LIMIT OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: WHILE THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHORS HAVE USED THEIR BEST EFFORTS IN PREPARING THIS WORK, THEY MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS WORK AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO WARRANTY MAY BE CREATED OR EXTENDED BY SALES REPRESENTATIVES, WRITTEN SALES MATERIALS OR PROMOTIONAL STATEMENTS FOR THIS WORK. THE FACT THAT AN ORGANIZATION, WEBSITE, OR PRODUCT IS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK AS A CITATION AAND/OR POTENTIAL SOURCE OF FURTHER INFORMATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE PUBLISHER AND AUTHORS ENDORSE. THE INFORMATION OR SERVICES THE ORGANIZATION, WEBSITE, OR PRODUCT MAY PROVIDE OR RECOMMENDATIONS IT MAY MAKE. THIS WORK IS SOLD WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PUBLISHER IS NOT ENGAGED IN RENDERING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. THE ADVICE AND STRATEGIES CONTAINED HEREIN MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUR SITUATION. YOU SHOULD CONSULT WITH A SPECIALIST WHERE APPROPRIATE. FURTHER, READERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT WEBSITES LISTED IN THIS WORK MAY HAVE CHANGED OR DISAPPEARED BETWEEN WHEN THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN AND WHEN IT 1S READ. NEITHER THE PUBLISHER NOR AUTHORS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR OTHER DAMAGES. For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 877-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002. For technical support, please visit https: //hub.wiley com/community/support/dummies. Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand. Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-on-demand. If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http: //booksupport.. wiley com. For more information about Wiley products, visit www wi ley . com. Library of Congress Control Number: 2023935172 ISBN 978-1-394-18337-1 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-394-18341-8 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-394-18339-5 (ebk) | — StudyXY

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    Contents at a Glance Introduction... Part 1: Getting Started withthe GRE ........................................5 cHapTER 1: Knowing the GRE. ................. iii cHapTEr 2: Planning Your Time. .......... oo... 013 cHapTer 3: Planning for Exam Day: Everything Outside the Exam.............................23 Part 2: Tackling the Verbal Section One Word ata Time.................27 cuapTer 4: Upping Your Best GRE Verbal Score. ....... o.oo. 29 cuapters: What Are They Saying: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence.................33 chapters: Getting the Gist: Reading Comprehension.......................................51 carter 7: Critical Thinking: Argument Analysis Questions ..................................67 carter 8: Expanding Your Vocabulary to Boost Your Score... 77 Part 3: Math You Thought You'd Never Need Again......................97 cHapTER 9: Raising Your Best GRE Math Score................... ooo ..99 cHapTER 10: Working with Numbers and Operations........................................105 cHAPTER 11: Solving Algebra and Functions ...................... ooo. 129 cHAPTER 12: Drawing Geometry ................ o.oo iii 157 cuapTER 13: Simplifying Word Problems... L019 cHaPTER 14: Interpreting Dataand Graphs... 213 cHapTER 15: Comparing Quantities ..................... coin... 235 Part 4: Getting the Essays Right ............................................253 cHAPTER 16: Writing the Essays Welland Fast ..............................................255 cHAPTER 17: Practicing Your Essays ...............o.ooiiiiiiiiii e271 Part 5: Full-Length Practice Exams: Show Time..........................279 CHAPTER 18: Practice Exam T.........ooiiiiii ieee 281 cHAPTER 19: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations ....................................307 CHAPTER 20: Practice EXam 2... .....iiei tiie eee 321 cHAPTER 21: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations ....................................345 CHAPTER 22: Practice EXam 3 ........ooiiieiii ieee 357 cHAPTER 23: Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations ....................................383 Part6:ThePartof Tens......................................................39 cHAPTER 24: Ten Key Facts about the GRE. ..............................oioiiao.......395 cHAPTER 25: Ten Mistakes You Won't Make (While Others Will) .....................covv.....399 cHAPTER 26: Ten Ways to Build Your Skills with the Online Practice Exams .....................403 Index... 407

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    INTRODUCTION... About This BOOK... ooiiii en Icons Used in This BOOK +... ..oiiiie tiie 2 Beyond the BOOK. ...........ooii iil 2 Where to GofromHere ................ooiiiii nl 3 PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITHTHEGRE ................................5 cuarrers: Knowing the GRE... 7 Knowing the GRE Sections. ................oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieaean 7 Knowing the GRESCOres. .............ooiiiiiiiiiiiei iia... 9 Calculating your score. ..............oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieieee 9 Checking yourscore ..............ooiiiiiiiiiiiiieiieiiiaieieea...... 10 Seeing or canceling yourscores ...................oiiiiie 1 Taking advantage of the ScoreSelect option................................ 1 Bringing the GRE into Your Comfort Zone. .....................oooieneeo... 1 Getting familiar with what'sontheexam .................................. 11 Understanding the other admissions requirements .........................12 Using Old SCOres ....... oie 12 carrer: Planning Your Time... a3 Planning Your Prep Time ............... cc... 13 Planning your long-term study time. ......................................13 Planning your short-term study time ......................................15 Planning your last-minute study time .....................................16 Planning your practicetime..............................cociee.l 16 Planning Your Exam Time .................. oii 17 Planning your questiontime ....................... ol 17 Throwingamentaldart ....................... co 17 Planning your intermission time. ........................ ool 17 Planning your computertime ...................... coca... 18 Planning Your Mental and Physical Time......................................19 Staying active ......... oii eee 19 Eatingwell........... 19 Relaxing. .......... 19 Scheduling Your Exam ............... iii. 20 Scheduling for the testing center .........................................20 Scheduling forhome..................... ll 20 euaererz: Planning for Exam Day: Everything Outside the Exam..........23 Planning the Night Before ..................................................23 Knowingwhattobring .............................lll023 Knowing whatnottobring...................... L284 Planning for Contingency ................... cocoa... 25 It's Them, Not You: Testing under Adverse Conditions ..........................26 BR | study

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    PART 2: TACKLING THE VERBAL SECTION ONE WORD AT A TIME ... 27 curren s: Upping Your Best GRE Verbal Score ...............................29 Building Your Core Skills. ................. 229 Managing Your Time. ............... oii... 30 euarers: What Are They Saying: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence .........................033 Clinching Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence Questions. ................33 Keepingitstraight ................... 34 Trying it out... eee... 34 Developing Your Skills for Finding the Correct Answers .........................35 Interpreting the Text 101 .......................coooiiiiiiieen......35 Getting the gistofthetext...............................................36 Taking the Best and Only Approach. .........................................36 Interpret the text without looking at the answer choices .....................37 Complete the text with yourownwords ...................................37 Eliminate wrong answer choices. .........................................38 Interpreting Trickier Sentences. .........................cooiiiiaa.......38 Use transition words to get the gist of the phrases..........................39 Start with the second or third missingword................................40 Getting Your Hands Dirty with Some Practice..................................41 Text Completion questions... 4] Sentence Equivalence questions. ................... col... 44 wrens: Getting the Gist: Reading Comprehension .......................51 Recognizing the Three Reading Comprehension Question Formats. ..............51 Multiple-choice questions: Choose one answer .............................52 Multiple-choice questions: Choose one or more answers ....................52 Sentence-selection questions: Choose a sentence from the passage. ..........53 Developing Strategies for Success ...........................................53 Using the contextasyourroadmap ........................oooeee..... 53 Grasping the gist of the passage. .........................................54 Avoiding common traps. ...........coiiiiiiiii ieee... 54 Answering the question yourself..........................................55 Acing the Three Commonly Tested Reading Comprehension Passages. ...........55 The biological and physical science passage................................55 The social sciences passage. .................coieiiiiiiaiieaian......58 The humanities passage. ....................cooiiiiiiieie aio... 61 The social sciences passage redux ........................ciiiii.......63 eaerer 7: Critical Thinking: Argument Analysis Questions.................67 Covering the Answer Choices .......................ccoiiiiiiiaian......68 Reading the Question for What It's Asking. ....................................68 Reading the Passage for What the Question Is Asking ..........................68 Identifying the “because” and “therefore”. .................................69 Finding the unstated assumption.........................................70 Exploring common logical fallacies. ....................................... 71 Answering the Question in Your OwnWords ..................................72 Eliminating Each Wrong Answer ................. co... 72 Applying the process of elimination.......................................73 Testingyourskills ............... 73 X GRE Prep 2024 For Dummies with Online Practice

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    carers: Expanding Your Vocabulary to Boost Your Score .................77 Brushing Up on Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots. .................................77 Prefixes... o.oo TT SUFfIXES oo 00.80 ROOES «oe eee. 80 Memorizing the GRE's Most Common Vocabulary Words. .......................82 PART 3: MATH YOU THOUGHT YOU'D NEVER NEED AGAIN............97 cuarrers: Raising Your Best GRE Math Score..................................99 Managing Your Time. ................. oii... 100 Typing an Answer ................ iii... 100 Selecting Two or More ANSWers ................oooeveeniineneenenanna......101 Choosing among threeanswers .........................coovienen......101 Choosing among more than threeanswers ...............................102 Selecting the Quantity That's Greater. ..........................ccoen.......102 carrer 10: Working with Numbers and Operations..........................105 Working with Integers, Factors, and Multiples ................................105 Working with Math Terms ......................................oo.o...... 106 Working with Prime and Composite Numbers................................106 Working with the Units Digit ...............................................107 Working with Absolute Value. ..............................................108 Working with one absolutevalue ........................................109 Working with two absolute values .......................................109 Working with Order of Operations.............................ccoeeee. 0. 110 Working with Fractions. ..............................o IN Adding and subtracting. .............. oo IT Multiplying ............ ee 113 Dividing... oe 114 Working with mixed numbers and improper fractions......................114 Cross-multiplying. .................. 114 Working with Decimals. .................................oocoiiel 115 Adding and subtracting. .................. ool 116 Multiplying .......... ea 116 DIVIdING . oe 117 Working with Percentages ........................coooiiiiiiiieae..... 118 Converting .........o.iii eee 119 Calculating percentage of change........................................119 Working with Factorials ..................... 121 Working with Ratios ................... oii 122 Working with total numbers .............. o.oo 122 Working with amountsintheratio.......................................124 Maintaining the ratio. ........................ oll 124 Combining ratios. ............oooiiiiiiiii ee... 126 cuarrer 11: Solving Algebra and Functions .............................0129 Solving Bases and Exponents ...................ciiiiiiiieeeeeea.. 0129 Solving Math Operators ................cooiiiiiiiiiiiieieaean.....132 Solving for X . oo. ea. 134 Solving for xwithanumber....................... 0134 Solving with the FOIL method ...........................................135 Factoring backout...................... ie... 138 Solving Square Roots and Radicals. .........................................139 BR | study

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    Simplifying ......... a. 140 Adding and subtracting. ................ oo 14 Multiplying and dividing. .................. 142 Simplifying first... 142 Solving Coordinate Geometry ...................ciiiiiiiiiiiaiienaen....... 143 Solving common problems ............... LLL. 143 Solving linear equations... ................... coi... 146 Solving two linear equations .................... o.oo... 148 Solving graphed circles. ..................... ol... 152 Solving Patternsina Sequence. ..................ooiiiiiiiiaiieiae.......153 Solving f(x) Functions ...................... ici... 154 cuarrer 12 Drawing Geometry o.oo... 57 Drawing Linesand Angles ..............................ciiiieiel... 157 Drawing lines ................ iii 157 Drawingangles. ................... iii iii... 158 Measuring Polygons .................. iii 160 Measuring total interiorangles............................... LL... 162 Measuring one interiorangle ...................... oie... 162 Drawing Triangles .................. oo iii... 163 Drawing three types of triangles. ........................................163 Measuring key characteristics. .......................oiiiai... LL. 164 Drawing perimeterandarea.......................coiiiiiiiiiiaa....... 166 Measuring with the Pythagorean theorem ................................168 Drawing common right triangles. ........................................169 Drawing Quadrilaterals. .................... 172 Drawing Circles ............... iii 174 Drawing partsofacircle........................ o.oo. 174 Drawing the circumferenceandarea.....................................176 Drawing thearcand sector .....................cooiiiiiiiien.......178 Drawing overlapping shapes.......................... oo... 182 Drawing 3D Shapes. ................oiiiiiiiiiiiiiii eae... 184 Drawingacylinder........................ ie... 184 Drawing a rectangularsolid.............................................185 Drawingacube ................... iii... 186 cuarrer 13: Simplifying Word Problems... a9 Simplifying the Steps. .............. cc. i 191 Simplifying Time and Distance .....................c.oooiiieieae......192 Simplifying Units of Measurement ..........................................193 Simplifying Averages. .......... coi... 194 Simplifying missing-term averages. ........................coil.......194 Simplifying evenly spaced integers. ......................................195 Simplifying weighted averages ............................. 0.00196 Simplifying Work Problems ...........................................0198 Simplifying Team-Work Problems. ..........................................199 Simplifying Mixture Problems ........................ ool. 200 Simplifying Sets and Groups .................ciiiiiiiiiiii eae... 203 Simplifying the Venn diagram ...........................................203 Simplifying the setsformula ............................................204 Simplifying Probability ................. 204 Step #1: Setup the fraction............................................0205 Step #2: Multiply consecutive probabilities. ...............................205 Step #3: Add either/or probabilities on a singleevent.......................206 Simplifying probability in sets and groups. ................................208 Xll GRE Prep 2024 For Dummies with Online Practice

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    Simplifying Counting Methods .............................................208 Basic countingmethods.................... o.oo... 209 When order matters: Permutations ....................oooiiiinae.... 2.210 When order doesn't matter: Combinations. ....................... 000.212 cuarrer 14: Interpreting Data and Graphs........................213 Interpreting Basic Stats. ................o iii. 213 Interpreting the median................................ 00213 Interpreting themode. ...............................oiiiell..l 215 Interpreting therange.........................ciiiiiiiiiiiiee..... 215 Interpretingthemean..................... coi... 216 Interpreting standard deviation ..................... o.oo. 219 Eyeballing standard deviation ...........................................220 Interpreting mean deviation ............................oel......223 Interpreting the distribution curve .......................................223 Interpreting Tables and Graphs ............................................224 Interpreting tables. ................... i... 224 Interpreting graphs..........................iiie.....225 cuarrer 1s: COMparing Quantities .......................235 Comparing Exact Answer Choices. ...............................0........235 Comparing Steps... o.oo eee... 236 Comparing via Strategy. ...............ooiiiiiiiii ieee... 237 Comparing similar appearances. .................c.oooevieninienaon......237 Comparing drawings. ...................c.oiiiiiiiiiiiiie......238 Comparing CONCEPtS. .... outta... 240 Comparing identical terms. ........................ 24 Comparing ranges. . .... o.oo iii eee... 246 Comparing estimates .................ooiiiiiiiiiaiinieaneeo.......247 Comparing with Four Square................................0.o........248 Comparingwithahundred .............................................250 Comparing multiple unknowns. .........................................250 PART 4: GETTING THE ESSAYSRIGHT ......................................253 cuarrer 16: Writing the Essays Welland Fast. ..................................255 Setting Your SightsonaPerfect6...............................0.......256 What the essay scores reallymean.......................................256 Key methods to scoringwell ............................ 00.257 Writing the Issue Essay. ...............ooiiiiiiiiiiii eae... ...258 Step 1: Read and understand the prompt.................................258 Step 2: Identify examples you already know about the issue.................259 Step 3: Take a position that’s in line with your examples ....................259 Step 4: Write your ISSU@ @SSay. .........vvoinieieei aie... 260 Tying everything together with smooth transitions .........................263 Writing the Argument Essay. ...............cooiiiiiii iia... ..264 Step 1: Read and understand the prompt.................................264 Step 2: Identify the position stated in the argument ........................265 Step 3: List the reasons given to support the stated position.................265 Step 4: Identify the flawed assumptions behind each reason ................266 Step 5: Write your @SSay.........oeuiinetei aie. 267 Table of Contents

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