GRE 1,001 Practice Questions For Dummies E-Book

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Prepare for the GRE with targeted practice and professional insight 1,001 GRE Practice Questions For Dummies is your comprehensive guide to preparing for the GRE. Our test prep gurus lead you through questions designed to parallel the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections of the exam, and provide advice and guidance for improving skills on the Analytical Writing portion of the test. Each practice question includes the answer, along with step-by-step instruction and detailed narratives that explain the best approach. The GRE General Test is your ticket into graduate school, and solid preparation is the key to an impressive score. Whether you're coming straight out of college or have been out of school for a few years, there's a good chance you'll need to brush up on all the things you've forgotten and discover the things you didn't learn as an undergrad that graduate school will demand. Reading through your old notes and textbooks only helps so much! It's better to learn exactly what's on the test, and shape your study time around that information. This book includes a one-year subscription to online content including: Get: Free One-year access to practice questions online: * Hundreds of practice questions online -- from easy to hard * Track your progress, see where you need more help, and create customized question tests * Study what, where, and when you want * Detailed Answers and explanations for every question If you're studying for the GRE, nothing beats repeated practice as a way to avoid surprises on test day. You need to be fully prepared, and know exactly what to expect. 1,001 GRE Practice Questions For Dummies is the ultimate GRE prep method, with a targeted approach that will help you show what you know.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Introduction

What You’ll Find

How the Questions Are Organized

Beyond the Book

Where to Go for Additional Help

Part I: The Questions

Chapter 1: Sentence Completion

The Problems You’ll Work On

What to Watch Out For

Chapter 2: Reading Comprehension

The Problems You’ll Work On

What to Watch Out For

Chapter 3: Argument Analysis

The Problems You’ll Work On

What to Watch Out For

Chapter 4: Problem Solving

The Problems You’ll Work On

What to Watch Out For

Chapter 5: Quantitative Comparisons and More Problem Solving

The Problems You’ll Work On

What to Watch Out For

Chapter 6: Writing

The Problems You’ll Work On

What to Watch Out For

Part II: The Answers

Chapter 7: Answers

Cheat Sheet

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Introduction

Welcome to 1,001 GRE Practice Questions For Dummies. Don’t take the Dummies thing personally — you’re 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 bachelor’s degrees, and some of you even have master’s degrees. And now you’re 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 you’ve forgotten since high school — material you haven’t 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.

What You’ll Find

The GRE practice problems in this book are divided into six chapters: three verbal, two math, and one writing. Questions are grouped by topic. If there’s a topic that you struggle with, you’ll find a group of similar questions to practice and hone your skills. This book serves as an effective stand-alone refresher of GRE basics, or as an excellent companion to GRE For Dummies, 8th Edition, written by yours truly (with invaluable help from Joe Kraynak) and published by Wiley. Either way, this book helps you identify subject areas you need to work on so that you can practice them until you’re a pro, and thus prepare yourself for test day.

If you get a problem wrong, don’t 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 aren’t meant to discourage you. Rather, they’re meant to show you how to solve them so that you can practice and master them.

How the Questions Are Organized

The test is divided into three main parts: verbal, math, and writing.

Verbal

The verbal questions in this book cover the following topics:

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.

Math

The math questions in this book cover the following topics:

Arithmetic:

These questions are based on core arithmetic concepts, including prime numbers, absolute value, decimals, fractions, and ratios. Don’t 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.

Comparing quantities:

About 8 of the 20 math questions in each section rehash the topics mentioned previously, but they’re in the format where you compare Quantity A to Quantity B and determine whether one is greater, they’re the same, or the relationship can’t be determined.

Writing

You are tasked with writing two different essays on the GRE, and these pages provide plenty of practice:

Analyze an issue essay:

For your first essay, the GRE gives you an issue statement and asks you to declare and support your position on that issue. The GRE asks for

your opinion

, so be sure to state what you think — as long as you can support it.

Analyze an argument essay:

For your second essay, the GRE gives you an argument that is typically flawed or incomplete. Your job is to analyze the argument and its reasoning and evidence and describe why the argument is either faulty or sound, and what information or evidence is needed to validate the argument.

Beyond the Book

Your purchase of this book gives you so much more than just several hundred problems you can work on to improve your understanding of the topics on the GRE. It also comes with a free, one'year subscription to hundreds of practice questions online. Not only can you access this digital content anytime you want, on whichever device is available to you, but you can also track your progress and view personalized reports that show you which concepts you need to study the most.

What you’ll find

The online practice that comes free with this book offers you the same questions and answers that are available here along with hundreds more. And online, they’re in a multiple-choice format. What’s great about this format is that it allows you to zero in on the details that can make or break your solution. Sometimes one (or more) of the incorrect answer options is the result of a calculation error. When you catch yourself making such a common error, you’ll know not to take the same approach with similar problems on a graded test, when the right answers really count.

Of course, the real beauty of the online problems is the ability to customize your practice. In other words, you get to choose the types of problems and the number of problems you want to tackle. The online program tracks how many questions you answer correctly versus incorrectly so you can get an immediate sense of which topics need more of your attention.

This product also comes with an online Cheat Sheet that helps you increase your odds of performing well on the GRE. Check out the free Cheat Sheet at www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/1001GRE. (No access code required. You can benefit from this info before you even register.)

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Where to Go for Additional Help

The solutions to the practice problems in this book are meant to walk you through how to get the right answers; they’re not meant to teach the material. If certain concepts are unfamiliar to you, you can find help at www.dummies.com . Just type “GRE” into the search box to turn up a wealth of GRE-related information.

If you need more detailed instruction, check out the previously referenced GRE For Dummies.

Part I

The Questions

Visit www.dummies.com for free access to great For Dummies content online.

In this part …

Become familiar with the ways the GRE asks you to read sentences and paragraphs, and brush up on the vocab that you’re likely to see. You also get to work on hundreds of math problems so that you recognize the common GRE traps and tricks. Finally, you get some practice writing the essays.

Sentence Completion (

Chapter 1

)

Reading Comprehension (

Chapter 2

)

Argument Analysis (

Chapter 3

)

Arithmetic (

Chapters 4

and

5

)

Geometry (

Chapters 4

and

5

)

Algebra (

Chapters 4

and

5

)

Word Problems (

Chapter 4

)

Graphs and Data Interpretation (

Chapters 4

and

5

)

Quantitative Comparisons (

Chapter 5

)

Analyze an Issue Essay (

Chapter 6

)

Analyze an Argument Essay (

Chapter 6

)

Chapter 1

Sentence Completion

Sentence Completion refers to Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions. Text Completion questions have one, two, or three words missing, and you choose one word for each blank. Sentence Equivalence questions have one word missing, and you choose two words for the blank.

Half the challenge is interpreting the sentence, and the other half is sorting through the vocabulary. With practice, you learn to easily interpret the sentence, and with exposure, you recognize the commonly-used GRE vocabulary words.

The Problems You’ll Work On

When working through the questions in this chapter, be prepared to

Look for clues in the sentence to determine its meaning.

Recognize irony, figures of speech, and formal diction.

Use transition words (“but, however, therefore”) to get the gist of the phrases.

Break the sentence into smaller pieces.

Check one word blank at a time to eliminate answer choices.

What to Watch Out For

The meaning of the sentence is not always clear, and the vocabulary can be tricky, so watch out for trap word-choice answers that

Appear to fit the sentence but don’t support its meaning

Support the meaning of the sentence but aren’t used properly

Appear to have one meaning but actually mean something else, such as “condone,” which means “approve”

For questions 1–90, each of the following sentences has a blank indicating that a word or phrase is omitted. Choose the two answer choices that best complete the sentence and result in two sentences most alike in meaning.

1. The crowd applauded the dancer, despite her odd ways, finding brilliance in the ________ of her movements.

[A] offensiveness

[B] anomaly

[C] irregularity

[D] mastery

[E] grotesquery

[F] banality

2. I read every political blog I found to ________ as many facts about the state of the world as I could before my interview with the foreign service.

[A] accrete

[B] eradicate

[C] garner

[D] jettison

[E] comprise

[F] accumulate

3. The dedication highlighted Dr. Carter’s Nobel Prize in mathematics as the ________ of his career, which hardly acknowledges the honor of such a distinction.

[A] zenith

[B] apex

[C] plateau

[D] median

[E] pedestal

[F] foundation

4. Tracy thought James was a perfect match for her in every way except for his ________ taste in food, with her palette not as adventurous as his.

[A] humdrum

[B] dazzling

[C] eclectic

[D] lackluster

[E] diverse

[F] inspired

5. Mr. Horton turned beet red after Ricky failed to show the proper ________ at Kim’s graduation.

[A] unruliness

[B] tranquility

[C] majesty

[D] violence

[E] decorum

[F] tact

6. Considering how outlandish the pop star’s wardrobe is when she is on stage, her gown at the music awards was very ________.

[A] extraordinary

[B] banal

[C] predictable

[D] derivative

[E] conventional

[F] unique

7. As much as Carl wanted to buy the mountain bike, he felt that it wasn’t a ________ decision.

[A] trustworthy

[B] risky

[C] pragmatic

[D] corrupt

[E] precarious

[F] rational

8. Downhill skiers are some of the most ________ in the Olympics, reaching speeds of up to 80 miles per hour.