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Team-LRN CliffsTestPrep™GRE®CBT6th EditionbyJerry Bobrow, Ph.D.Contributing Authors/ConsultantsPeter Z Orton, Ph.D.Allan Casson, Ph.D.Jean Eggenschwiler, M.A.Rajiv Rimal, Ph.D.William A. Covino, Ph.D.Bernard V. Zandy, M.A.Howard Horwitz, M.A.Best-Selling Books • Digital Downloads • e-Books • Answer Networks • e-Newsletters • Branded Web Sites • e-LearningNew York, NY ◆ Cleveland, OH ◆ Indianapolis, INTeam-LRN CliffsTestPrepTMGRE®CBT, 6th EditionPublished by Hungry Minds, Inc.909 Third AvenueNew York, NY 10022www.hungryminds.comwww.dummies.comCopyright © 2000 Jerry Bobrow, Ph.D. All rights reserved. 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It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to thepublisher, and neither the author nor the publisherhas received any payment for this “stripped book.”Team-LRN Author’s AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank CliffsNotes Editor Michele Spence for her meticulous edit-ing of the original manuscript and Tim Gallan and the Hungry Minds editorialstaff for reviewing and editing this newest edition of my work.I would also like to extend my sincere appreciation to the following authors andpublications for permission to use excerpts from their fine writings:Dr. Albert Upton, Design for Thinking, Stanford University Press.Sy Montgomery, “Sharks,” Los Angeles Times, February 23, 1991, p.B-3.“Opinions and Social Pressure,” Scientific American, New York,November 1955John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women, 1896.Richard Losick and Dale Kaiser, “Why and How Bacteria Communicate,”Scientific American, Volume 276, No. 2, February 1997. Page 69.James R. Stamm, A Short History of Spanish Literature, Doubleday andCompany, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1967, Pages 52-53.And finally, I would like to thank my wife, Susan, daughter Jennifer (22), andsons, Adam (19) and Jonathan (15) for their patience, moral support, and comicrelief.— Jerry BobrowiiiTeam-LRN This Page Intentionally Left BlankTeam-LRN Table of ContentsPreface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixThe Graduate Record Exam Computer-Based Test (GRE CBT), familiarproblems with a new delivery system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixStudy Guide Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xIntroduction to the GRE CBT: The Computer-Based GraduateRecord Examination General Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1General Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Questions Commonly Asked about the Computer-Based GRE General Test (GRE CBT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Taking the GRE CBT: An Overview of the Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Test Center Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Using the Interactive Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Scratch Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Test-Taking Strategies: The Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Don’t Get Stuck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Eliminate Wrong Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Working from Multiple–Multiple Choice Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10PART I: ANALYSIS OF EXAM AREASIntroduction to the Verbal Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Introduction to Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Analysis of Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16A Short List of Common Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Antonym Practice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Answers and Explanations for the Practice Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Introduction to Analogies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Some Types of Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Practice Making Sentences with Word Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Possible Answers for Word Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Practice Analogy Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Answers and Explanations for Analogy Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Introduction to Sentence Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Practice Sentence Completion Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73vTeam-LRN Answers and Explanations for the Practice Sentence Completion Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Introduction to Reading Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Practice Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Answers and Explanations for the Practice Reading Comprehension Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Using the Following Word List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Introduction to Quantitative Ability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Introduction to Quantitative Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Suggested Approach with Sample Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Practice Quantitative Comparison Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Easy to Moderate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Above Average to Difficult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Answers and Explanations for Practice Quantitative Comparison Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Easy to Moderate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Above Average to Difficult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Introduction to Math Ability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Practice Math Ability Questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Easy to Moderate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Above Average to Difficult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Answers and Explanations for Practice Math Ability Questions . . . . . . . . . . 165Easy to Moderate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Above Average to Difficult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Introduction to Graphs and Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Charts and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Bar Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Line Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181viCliffsTestPrep GRE CBT, 6th EditionTeam-LRN Circle Graphs (Pie Charts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Practice Graphs and Chart Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Answers and Explanations for Graphs and Charts Sample Problems . . . . . 195Important Symbols, Terminology, Formulas, and GeneralMathematical Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Common Math Symbols and Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Math Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Important Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Customary System, or English System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Metric System, or The International System of Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Problem-solving Words and Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Geometry Terms and Basic Infromation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Introduction to the Analytical Ability Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Introduction to Analytical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Practice Analytical Reasoning Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Set 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Set 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Set 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Set 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Set 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Set 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Answers and Explanations for Practice Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Set 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Set 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Set 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Set 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241Set 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242Set 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244Introduction to Logical Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Ability Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Basic Skills Necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Suggested Approach with Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246Practice Logical Reasoning Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Easy to Moderate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262Above Average to Difficult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266Answers and Explanations for the Practice Logical Reasoning Questions. . . 268Easy to Moderate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269Above Average to Difficult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270viiTable of ContentsTeam-LRN PART II: FULL-LENGTH GRE CBT PRACTICE TESTVerbal Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Quantitative Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Analytical Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319Charting and Analyzing Your Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Verbal Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Average Level Correct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344Type of Question Missed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345Quantitative Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345Average Level Correct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347Type of Problem Missed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347Analytical Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348Average Level Correct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Type of Question Missed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350Answers and Explanations for the Practice Test . . . . . . . . . . . . 351Verbal Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351Quantitative Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357Analytical Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379PART III: ANOTHER PRACTICE TESTVerbal Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Quantitative Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399Analytical Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407Answer Key For Practice Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417Charting and Analyzing Your Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419Verbal Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419Quantitative Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419Analytical Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420Answers and Explanations for Practice Test Two . . . . . . . . . . . 421Verbal Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421Quantitative Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423Analytical Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428Final Preparation: The Final Touches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Before the Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435At the 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