GRE For Dummies with Online Practice Tests 9th Edition

About This Book

In GRE For Dummies, 9th Edition, I pretend you forgot everything. I start you at the very beginning to cover all the basic math and verbal concepts, and because you have the capacity, I then challenge you with GRE-level questions. I also show you how to approach these questions, avoid making common mistakes, and master the intuitive tricks that help you knock it out of the park.

To earn a top score on the GRE, you have three goals:

1. Know what’s on the exam.

   Read through this whole book. No matter how well you know a topic, you can discover strategies and common traps, and the GRE has a way of asking a question that’s different from what you’re used to — or what you learned in the classroom. This book will prepare you for this.

2. Strengthen your weak subject areas.

   Turn to specific sections for targeted information. This book is organized to make it easy for you to find strategies and practice for specific question types that you have trouble with.

3. Prepare for the test-taking experience.

   You’ll need the online practice exams to get ready for the experience. ETS offers two excellent online practice exams, free, but you’ll need more than two. Packaged with this book, also free (after you bought the book), are six online practice exams: three in this book, and all six online. When your exam is around the corner, take one or two practice exams in real-life, dress-rehearsal settings. Flip to Part 6, The Part of Tens, for ten ways to get the most benefit from the online practice exams.

Basically, this book does it all: It prepares you for the exam by bringing your skills from the basic level to the GRE level. What else is there?

There’s vocab.

To help you with vocab, as you read through this book, you’ll notice that some words have a style all their own. Each GRE vocabulary word in this text appears in this font, followed directly by its meaning. A good way to learn GRE vocab is to encounter it in a question and see what it means along with how it’s used. When you get stuck on a vocab word, write it down. This is an effective complement to studying from a list or flash cards.