Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with the GRE 5 Chapter 1: Knowing the GRE 7 Chapter 2: Planning Your Time 13 Chapter 3: Planning for Exam Day: Everything Outside the Exam 23 Part 2: Tackling the Verbal Section One Word at a Time 27 Chapter 4: Upping Your Best GRE Verbal Score 29 Chapter 5: What Are They Saying: Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence 33 Chapter 6: Getting the Gist: Reading Comprehension 51 Chapter 7: Critical Thinking: Argument Analysis Questions 67 Chapter 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 99 Chapter 10: Working with Numbers and Operations 105 Chapter 11: Solving Algebra and Functions 129 Chapter 12: Drawing Geometry 157 Chapter 13: Simplifying Word Problems 191 Chapter 14: Interpreting Data and Graphs 213 Chapter 15: Comparing Quantities 235 Part 4: Getting the Essays Right 253 Chapter 16: Writing the Essays Well and Fast 255 Chapter 17: Practicing Your Essays 271 Part 5: Full-Length Practice Exams: Show Time 279 Chapter 18: Practice Exam 1 281 Chapter 19: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations 307 Chapter 20: Practice Exam 2 321 Chapter 21: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations 345 Chapter 22: Practice Exam 3 357 Chapter 23: Practice Exam 3: Answers and Explanations 383 Part 6: The Part of Tens 393 Chapter 24: Ten Key Facts about the GRE 395 Chapter 25: Ten Mistakes You Won't Make (While Others Will) 399 Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Build Your Skills with the Online Practice Exams 403 Index 407.