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Et Cetera Drill
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Online Tools
- More Review, More Strategy, More Ways to Learn
- Online Tools: Just a Few Clicks Away
- Part I: Orientation
- 1 Introduction
- CRACKING THE GRE
- WHAT IS THE GRE?
- What Exactly Is New About the GRE?
- WHY DO SCHOOLS REQUIRE IT?
- WHO IS ETS?
- TEST DAY
- Test Day Tips
- TEST STRUCTURE
- The Experimental Section
- Research Section
- The Tutorial and the 10-Minute Break
- Accepting and Sending Your Scores
- WHAT DOES A GRE SCORE LOOK LIKE?
- How Much Does the GRE Matter?
- Do Your Research
- SCHEDULING A TEST
- Computer Testing Facts
- Accommodated Testing
- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
- Practice for Technique, Not for Result
- Additional Resources
- Real GREs
- MAKING A SCHEDULE
- STAY UP TO DATE
- Summary
- 2 General Strategy
- CRACKING THE SYSTEM
- I Thought the GRE Was Coach-Proof
- Why Should I Listen to The Princeton Review?
- Think Like the Test Writers
- The Only “Correct” Answer Is the One That Earns You Points
- Cracking the System
- GENERAL STRATEGIES
- Take the Easy Test First
- Use the Mark Function
- Review
- Pacing
- GENERAL STRATEGY:POE—PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
- ETS Doesn’t Care How You Get the Best Answer
- The Importance of Wrong Answers
- Improve Your Odds Indirectly
- POE and Guessing
- Use That Paper!
- More About Scratch Paper
- Double-Check
- Let It Go
- The Week Before the Test
- Summary
- Part II: How to Crack the Verbal Section
- 3 The Geography of the Verbal Section
- WHAT’S ON THE VERBAL SECTION
- Text Completions
- Reading Comprehension
- Multiple Choice
- Select all that Apply
- Select in Passage
- Sentence Equivalence
- HOW IS THE GRE VERBAL SECTION STRUCTURED?
- BASIC STRATEGIES FOR THE GRE VERBAL SECTION
- Scratch Paper
- Personal Order of Difficulty
- Process of Elimination (POE)
- THE IMPORTANCE OF VOCABULARY
- Three Kinds of Words
- GENERAL STRATEGIES FOR THE GRE VERBAL SECTION
- Scratch Paper—Say No to Multitasking
- Take the Easy Test First
- Bend—Don’t Push
- Summary
- 4 Text Completions
- THE FORMAT
- Finding the Clue
- Practice: Finding the Clue
- A Quick Word About Your Words
- Positive/Negative
- TRIGGER WORDS
- Practice: Clues and Triggers
- PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
- Text Completions Drill
- AN IMPORTANT WORD ABOUT USING POE
- TWO- AND THREE-BLANK TEXT COMPLETIONS
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BLANKS
- THE LAST WORD—VOCABULARY
- Text Completions Practice Set
- Summary
- 5 Sentence Equivalence
- WHAT YOU WILL SEE
- APPROACHING SENTENCE EQUIVALENCE
- Sentence Equivalence Drill
- PROCESS OF ELIMINATION STRATEGIES
- Positive and Negative Words
- Synonym/No Synonym
- IF YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THE WORD BEFORE
- Sentence Equivalence Practice Set
- Summary
- 6 Reading Comprehension
- WHAT YOU WILL SEE
- READING AND THE GRE
- READING COMPREHENSION: THE BASIC APPROACH
- ATTACK THE PASSAGE
- Reading Comprehension and the Computer
- Types of Passage
- Approaching Short Passages
- Approaching Medium Passages
- Approaching Long Passages
- SIZE UP THE QUESTIONS
- Question Formats
- Question Types
- Fetch Questions
- Reasoning Questions
- POE Guidelines for Reasoning Questions
- Select-in-Passage Questions
- POE, REVISITED
- Avoid Extreme Statements
- Half Right = All Wrong
- Garbled Information
- Beyond the Information Given
- CRACKING THE QUESTION
- Reading Comprehension Drill
- CRITICAL REASONING
- What Exactly Is Critical Reasoning?
- BREAKING AN ARGUMENT DOWN
- Identifying the Conclusion
- Practice: Identifying Conclusions
- Here’s How to Crack It
- Finding the Premise
- Practice: Finding the Premise
- Locating Assumptions
- Practice: Locating Assumptions
- QUESTION TYPES
- Reasoning Questions
- Assumption Questions
- Strengthen Questions
- Weaken Questions
- CRACKING CRITICAL-REASONING QUESTIONS
- The Basic Approach
- Strengthen Questions
- Weaken Questions
- OTHER CRITICAL-REASONING QUESTION TYPES
- Inference Questions
- Resolve/Explain
- WON’T ALL THIS TAKE TOO MUCH TIME?
- Critical Reasoning Practice Set
- Summary
- 7 Vocabulary for the GRE
- VOCAB, VOCAB, VOCAB
- LEARN TO LOVE THE DICTIONARY
- Learning New Words
- THE HIT PARADE
- Hit Parade Group 1
- Group 1 Exercises
- Hit Parade Group 2
- Group 2 Exercises
- Hit Parade Group 3
- Group 3 Exercises
- Hit Parade Group 4
- Group 4 Exercises
- BEYOND THE HIT PARADE
- Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1
- Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2
- Part III: How to Crack the Math Section
- 8 The Geography of the Math Section
- WHAT’S IN THE MATH SECTION
- Predictable Triggers
- It’s Really a Reading Test
- Read and Copy Carefully
- THE CALCULATOR
- GEOGRAPHY OF A MATH SECTION
- QUESTION FORMATS
- Standard Multiple Choice
- Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer
- Quantitative Comparison Questions
- There Is No “E”
- If a Quant Comp Question Contains Only Numbers, the Answer Can’t Be (D)
- Compare, Don’t Calculate
- Enter a Number
- MAXIMIZE YOUR SCORE
- The Two Roles of Techniques
- Take the Easy Test First
- Bend, Don’t Push
- POE: Ballparking and Trap Answers
- You Know More Than You Think
- Trap Answers
- HOW TO STUDY
- Practice, Practice, Practice
- Summary
- 9 Numbers and Equations
- IN THE BEGINNING …
- GRE Math Vocabulary
- Digits
- Numbers
- Integers
- PROPERTIES OF NUMBERS AND INTEGERS
- Positive or Negative
- Even or Odd
- Zero
- Keep in Mind
- Consecutive Integers
- Absolute Value
- FACTORS, MULTIPLES, AND DIVISIBILITY
- Factors
- Multiples
- Prime Numbers
- DIVISIBILITY
- Remainders
- MORE MATH VOCABULARY
- BASIC OPERATIONS WITH NUMBERS
- Order of Operations
- Multiplication and Division
- A FEW LAWS
- Associative Laws
- Distributive Law
- EXPONENTS AND SQUARE ROOTS
- What Are Exponents?
- Multiplication with Exponents
- Division with Exponents
- Exponents and Parentheses
- If You Expand It Out, You’ll Never Be in Doubt
- The Peculiar Behavior of Exponents
- What Is a Square Root?
- Playing with Square Roots
- Estimating and Simplifying Roots
- Learn These Four Values
- ALGEBRA: OPERATIONS WITH LETTERS
- Dealing with Variables
- Manipulating Equations
- Solving for One Variable
- INEQUALITIES
- WORKING WITH TWO VARIABLES
- Quadratic Equations
- FOIL
- Factoring
- Solving Quadratic Equations
- Simultaneous Equations
- PLUGGING IN
- Can I Just Plug In Anything?
- Good Numbers Make Life Easier
- PLUGGING IN THE ANSWERS (PITA)
- PLUGGING IN ON QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON QUESTIONS
- Always Plug In at Least Twice in Quant Comp Questions
- Numbers and Equations Drill
- Summary
- 10 Real World Math
- EVERYDAY MATH
- FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, AND PERCENTS
- Fractions
- Reducing and Expanding Fractions
- Adding and Subtracting Fractions
- Multiplying Fractions
- Dividing Fractions
- Comparing Fractions
- Comparing More Than Two Fractions
- Converting Mixed Numbers into Fractions
- Decimals
- Comparing Decimals
- Digits and Decimals
- Percentages
- Converting Decimals to Percentages
- Translation
- Percentage Increase/Decrease
- PLUGGING IN ON FRACTION AND PERCENT PROBLEMS
- RATIOS AND PROPORTIONS
- What Is a Ratio?
- Every Fraction Can Be a Ratio, and Vice Versa
- Treat a Ratio Like a Fraction
- Find the Total
- What Is a Proportion?
- AVERAGES
- Think Total
- Up and Down
- MEDIAN, MODE, AND RANGE
- STANDARD DEVIATION
- Your Friend the Bell Curve
- RATE
- CHARTS
- Chart Questions
- Don’t Start with the Questions: Start with the Charts
- Approximate, Estimate, and Ballpark
- Chart Problems
- Real World Math Drill
- Summary
- 11 Geometry
- WHY GEOMETRY?
- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- DEGREES, LINES, AND ANGLES
- Vertical Angles
- Parallel Lines
- TRIANGLES
- Angles in a Triangle
- Equilateral Triangles
- Isosceles Triangles
- Angle/Side Relationships in Triangles
- Perimeter of a Triangle
- The Third Side Rule
- Area of a Triangle
- The Pythagorean Theorem
- Right Isosceles Triangles
- 30 : 60 : 90 Triangles
- FOUR-SIDED FIGURES
- Perimeter of a Rectangle
- Area of a Rectangle
- Squares
- CIRCLES
- Radius and Diameter
- Circumference of a Circle
- AREA OF A CIRCLE
- THE COORDINATE SYSTEM
- Slope
- VOLUME
- DIAGONALS in three dimensions
- SURFACE AREA
- PLUGGING IN ON GEOMETRY PROBLEMS
- DRAW IT YOURSELF
- Redraw
- Geometry Drill
- Summary
- 12 Math Et Cetera
- OTHER MATH TOPICS
- PROBABILITY
- Two Important Laws of Probability
- FACTORIALS
- PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS
- FUNCTIONS AND FUNNY-LOOKING SYMBOLS
- GROUPS
- Et Cetera Drill
- Comprehensive Math Drill
- Summary
- Part IV: How to Crack the Critical Thinking and Analytical Writing Section
- 13 The Geography of the Critical Thinking and Analytical Writing Section
- ESSAYS AND THE GRE
- How Do Schools Use the Writing Assessment?
- How Will the Essays Be Scored?
- Who Are These Readers Anyway?
- How Much Time Do They Devote to Each Essay?
- So How Do You Score High on the Analytical Writing Essays?
- What ETS Doesn’t Want You to Know
- What Your Essay Needs in Order to Look Like a Successful Essay
- So All I Have to Do Is Type “I Hate the GRE” Over and Over Again?
- Read the Directions Every Time
- Oh, Yes, You Can Plan Your Essays in Advance
- ISSUE VERSUS ARGUMENT ESSAY
- The Issue Essay
- The Argument Essay
- HOW DOES THE WORD-PROCESSING PROGRAM WORK?
- Does Spelling Count?
- Summary
- 14 The Issue Essay
- THREE BASIC STEPS
- The Prompt
- STEP 1: THINK
- Key Terms
- Opposite Side
- Examples
- STEP 2: ORGANIZE
- Separate Your Examples
- Write Your Thesis Statement
- Practice: Steps 1 and 2
- PROMPT 1
- Prompt 2
- Practice: Sample Responses
- STEP 3: WRITE
- What the Readers Want to See
- Essay Essentials
- Preconstruction: The Introduction
- Establish the Topic
- Preview the Issue
- Present the Thesis
- Preconstruction: Body Paragraphs
- Transition/Topic Sentence
- Explain How Your Example Supports Your Thesis
- Preconstruction: Conclusion Paragraphs
- Alert the Reader
- Summarize Main Points
- Putting It All Together
- Your Turn
- Another Sample Response
- FINAL THOUGHTS: WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR TIME
- Summary
- 15 The Argument Essay
- THE PARTS OF AN ARGUMENT
- Conclusion Words
- Premise Words
- ASSUMPTIONS
- Three Common Types of Arguments and Their Assumptions
- WRITING THE ARGUMENT ESSAY
- WHAT THE READERS ARE LOOKING FOR
- Doing the Actual Analysis of the Argument
- Brainstorming for Assumptions
- Organizing the Analysis of an Argument Essay
- A Sample Template
- How Would the Result of Our Brainstorming Fit into the Template?
- Customizing Your Analysis of an Argument Template
- You Are Ready to Write an Argument Essay
- What To Do with Your Time
- Practice: Writing an Argument Essay
- Just Keep Practicing
- Summary
- Part V: Answers and Explanations to Drills and Practice Sets
- CHAPTER 4: TEXT COMPLETIONS
- Practice: Finding the Clue
- Practice: Clues and Triggers
- Text Completions Drill
- Text Completions Practice Set
- CHAPTER 5: SENTENCE EQUIVALENCE
- Sentence Equivalence Drill
- Sentence Equivalence Practice Set
- CHAPTER 6: READING COMPREHENSION
- Reading Comprehension Drill
- Practice: Identifying Conclusions
- Practice: Finding the Premise
- Practice: Locating Assumptions
- Critical Reasoning Practice Set
- CHAPTER 7: VOCABULARY FOR THE GRE
- Group 1 Exercises: Matching
- Group 2 Exercises: Matching
- Group 3 Exercises: Matching
- Group 4 Exercises: Matching
- CHAPTER 9: NUMBERS AND EQUATIONS
- Numbers and Equations Drill
- CHAPTER 10: REAL WORLD MATH
- Real World Math Drill
- CHAPTER 11: GEOMETRY
- Geometry Drill
- CHAPTER 12: MATH ET CETERA
- Et Cetera Drill
- Comprehensive Math Drill
- Part VI: The Princeton Review GRE Practice Tests and Explanations
- TEST INSTRUCTIONS
- General Instructions
- Analytic Writing Instructions
- Verbal Reasoning Instructions
- Quantitative Reasoning Instructions
- 16 Practice Test 1
- SECTION 1: ISSUE TOPIC
- SECTION 2: ARGUMENT TOPIC
- SECTION 3: QUANTITATIVE REASONING
- SECTION 4: VERBAL REASONING
- SECTION 5: QUANTITATIVE REASONING
- SECTION 6: VERBAL REASONING
- 17 Answers and Explanations for Practice Test 1
- INTERPRETING YOUR RESULTS
- Analytic Writing Sections
- Verbal Reasoning
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Interpretive Guide
- SECTION 3
- SECTION 4
- SECTION 5
- SECTION 6
- 18 Practice Test 2
- SECTION 1: ISSUE TOPIC
- SECTION 2: ARGUMENT TOPIC
- SECTION 3: VERBAL REASONING
- SECTION 4: QUANTITATIVE REASONING
- SECTION 5: VERBAL REASONING
- SECTION 6: QUANTITATIVE REASONING
- 19 Answers and Explanations for Practice Test 2
- INTERPRETING YOUR RESULTS
- Analytic Writing Sections
- Verbal Reasoning
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Interpretive Guide
- SECTION 3
- SECTION 4
- SECTION 5
- SECTION 6
- 20 Appendix: Accommodated Testing
- About the Authors
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