Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with the GRE 5Chapter 1: Knowing the GRE 7Chapter 2: Planning Your Time 13Chapter 3: Planning for Exam Day: Everything Outside the Exam 23Part 2: Tackling the Verbal Section One Word at a Time 27Chapter 4: Upping Your Best GRE Verbal Score 29Chapter 5: What Are They Saying: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence 33Chapter 6: Getting the Gist: Reading Comprehension 51Chapter 7: Critical Thinking: Argument Analysis Questions 67Chapter 8: Expanding Your Vocabulary to Boost Your Score 77Part 3: Math You Thought You'd Never Need Again 97Chapter 9: Raising Your Best GRE Math Score 99Chapter 10: Working with Numbers and Operations 105Chapter 11: Solving Algebra and Functions 129Chapter 12: Drawing Geometry 157Chapter 13: Simplifying Word Problems 191Chapter 14: Interpreting Data and Graphs 213Chapter 15: Comparing Quantities 235Part 4: Getting the Essays Right 253Chapter 16: Writing the Essays Well and Fast 255Chapter 17: Practicing Your Essays 271Part 5: Full-Length Practice Exams: Show Time 279Chapter 18: Practice Exam 1 281Chapter 19: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations 307Chapter 20: Practice Exam 2 321Chapter 21: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations 345Chapter 22: Practice Exam 3 357Chapter 23: Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations 383Part 6: The Part of Tens 393Chapter 24: Ten Key Facts about the GRE 395Chapter 25: Ten Mistakes You Won't Make (While Others Will) 399Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Build Your Skills with the Online Practice Exams 403Index 407
Ron Woldoff, MBA, is the founder of National Test Prep, where he has helped thousands of students reach their goals on the GMAT, GRE, and SAT. He has taught his own GMAT and GRE prep courses at Northern Arizona University and is the author of SAT For Dummies and previous editions of GRE For Dummies.