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 Essay Right 253 Chapter 16: Writing the Essay Well and Fast 255 Chapter 17: Practicing Your Essay 265 Part 5: Full-Length Practice Exams: Show Time 271 Chapter 18: Practice Exam 1 273 Chapter 19: Practice Exam 1: Answers and Explanations 291 Chapter 20: Practice Exam 2 301 Chapter 21: Practice Exam 2: Answers and Explanations 319 Part 6: The Part of Tens 329 Chapter 22: Ten Key Facts about the GRE 331 Chapter 23: Ten Mistakes You Won't Make (While Others Will) 335 Chapter 24: Ten Ways to Build Your Skills with the Online Practice Exams 339 Index 343.