This document provides tips for different sections of the GRE exam, including text completion, sentence equivalence, reading comprehension, quantitative comparison, problem solving, algebra, proportions, and geometry. For each section, it outlines strategies such as using context clues, process of elimination, mapping passages, comparing quantities without calculating, picking numbers, solving for variables, writing proportions as fractions, and using the Pythagorean theorem for right triangles. Contact information is also provided at the end for test preparation resources.

1. GRE Tips
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2. Tackling Multiple Blanks
GRE Text Completion questions can require you
to fill in one, two, or three blanks with the
correct word—and there’s no partial credit!
However, multiple-blank questions aren’t
necessarily more difficult than one-blank
questions. These sentences often contain more
context clues to help you predict the type of
words needed. Moreover, when you fill in one
blank correctly, that word is often a clue to the
remaining word(s). Remember that with
multiple-blank Text Completions, you do not
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3. Sentence Equivalence – Eliminating Answer
Choices
 Sentence Equivalence questions present you with one blank and ask you to
choose two words from a list of six to fill in that blank. The words need to
meet two criteria:
(1) they must make sense in the sentence.
(2) They must give the sentence the same meaning. This means that process of
elimination is a powerful tool. Even if two answer choices are synonyms, if they
would not make sense in the sentence, eliminate those choices. Also, if a word
would make sense but no other choice would give the sentence the same meaning,
eliminate that word from consideration. Once you eliminate words that don’t make
sense or that don’t have a “partner” word in the list, your chances of selecting the
correct two words from the remaining ones are much greater.
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4. Reading Comprehension – Mapping the
Passage
 you’ve spent a lot of your life reading to learn things so you can take tests and write
papers. If the passage is about the behavior of molecules in hypertonic solutions,
remember that you are not taking a chemistry test. If the passage is about the concept of
chivalry in medieval romances, remember that you are not taking a literature or history
test. The GRE predictably asks the same types of questions no matter what the particular
subject matter of the passage is.
Prepare to answer these questions by taking notes about the passage’s main idea, the
structure of the passage, and any opinions that appear and whose opinions they are.
Taking these notes—making a Passage Map—will engage you in active reading, and the
notes themselves will help you answer many test questions.
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5. Quantitative Comparison – Compare, Don’t
Calculate
• Quantitative Comparison questions present you with two
quantities and ask whether Quantity A is greater, Quantity
B is greater, the two quantities are the same, or the
relationship cannot be determined. These four answer
choices are always the same, so have them memorized by
Test Day.
• Also, keep in mind that the question is not asking you for
the value of the quantities, only for their relationship.
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6. Problem Solving – Picking Numbers
 Problem Solving questions probably look a lot like math questions you solved in school.
You are given some information and asked to use it to find a value or values. GRE
Problem Solving questions may ask you to select one correct answer out of five
choices. Alternatively, they can be all-that-apply questions such that there may be one
or more than one correct answers. They can also be numeric entry questions,
providing you with a box in which to type the answer.
 Many questions will give you information in relatively abstract form. You might be
given variables instead of numbers or proportions of an unknown total, or you might
be asked to apply number properties rules. A great way to bring any question like this
down to earth is to pick numbers and then work with the numbers instead of abstract
unknowns.
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7. Algebra – Solving for x
Over and over on the GRE Quantitative section, you’ll be asked to isolate a variable. This may mean finding the value of
or it may mean solving for one variable in terms of another, such as a = 2b2c.
Here is a useful set of steps for solving most linear equations or inequalities for a variable:
1. Eliminate any fractions by multiplying both sides by the least common denominator.
2. Put all terms with the variable you’re solving for on one side by adding or subtracting on both sides.
3. Combine like terms.
4. Factor out the desired variable.
5. Divide to leave the desired variable by itself.
Example: Solve for x in terms of y.
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8. Proportions – Three Ways to Solve
• A proportion expresses the relative amounts of two
or more quantities. On the GRE, proportions show up
throughout the Quantitative section in problems
involving arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. It is
usually most helpful to write proportions as
fractions. Use labels so you remember which value
you put on top and which one you put on the
bottom.
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9. Geometry – Right Triangles
• One of the GRE’s favorite shapes is the
triangle, and certain triangles have special
rules that are worth memorizing.
• If you know two sides of a right triangle, you
can find the third by using the Pythagorean
theorem:
• a2 + b2 = c2, where a and b are two legs of the
triangle and c is the hypotenuse
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