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34 Cards in this Set
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Analogies: When you know both words in the stem pair
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- Make a defining sentence
- Apply that sentence to the answer choices - Use POE - If necessary, make a more specific sentence |
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Analogies: When you don't know one of the words in the stem pair
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- Try to make defining sentecnes with the answer choices
- Eliminsate those with nondefining relationships - With the remaining answer choices, Work Backward and eliminate answer choices whose defining senteces don't work with the stem pair |
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Anologies: When you don't know either of the words in the stem pair
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- Try to make defining sentences with the answer choices
- Eliminate nondefining relationships - Make an educated guess about which remaining answer choice as the strongest relationship |
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Analogies: Common GRE Relationships
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- Type of
- Used to - Degree - Characterized by - Without / Lacking |
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Sentence Completions: One-Blank Questions
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- Ignore the answer choices
- Come up with your own word for the blank (Use the clue and triger words to help) - Eliminate answer choices that don't match your word |
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Sentence Completions: Two-Blank Questions
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- Ignore the answer choices
- Pick one of the blanks and come up with a word for that blank - Look only at one side of each of the answer choices and eliminate those that aren't simliar to your word - Come up with a word for the other blank From the remaining choices, eliminate those that aren't similiar |
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Sentence Completions: Relationship Between the Blanks
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- Determine if the relationship is one of agreement or disagreement
- Eliminate those answer choices in which the two words don't have the same relationship as the blanks |
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Antonyms: When you know the stem words
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- Define the word for yourself
- Come up with a simple opposite for that word - Use POE to eliminate answer choices that don't match your opposite |
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Antonyms: When you "sort of" know the stem word
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Use Positive / Negative
- Determine if the stem word is positive or negative (it may not be either) - Eliminate those answer choices that do not have an opposite connotation Work Backward - Make opposites for the answer choices - Eliminate answer choices whose opposites aren't close to the stem word |
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Antonyms: When you don't know the stem word at all
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- Eliminate any answer choices that don't have opposites
- Guess the extremes |
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Reading Comprehension: Basic Steps
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- Familiarize yourself with the passage, paying attention to the main idea and structure
- Read the quest, find the lead words, and make sure you understand what it's asking - Use lead words and line references to find the relevant part of the passage - Read in detail about five lines above and five lines below the lead words - Answer the question in your own words - Use POE |
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Reading Comprehension: Least/Except/Not Questions
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- The best answer will seem like the wrong answer, the crazy choice that you would normally eliminate first
- For EXCEPT questions, look for "correct" answers and eliminate them |
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Reading Comprehension: Questions about Tone, Attitude & Style
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- ETS is politically correct
- ETS has respect for the authors and the subjects of the passages - You can eliminate any choice that is too negative or too extreme - You can eliminate any choice that suggests the author is detached |
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Math: Even / Odd
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- Zero is even
- Fractions are neither even nor odd |
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Math: Divisibility
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An integer is:
- divisible by 3 if the sum of it's digits is divisible by 3 - divisible by 4 if it's last two digits is divisible by 4 - divisible by 6 if it's divisible by both 2 and 3 - divisible by 9 if the sum of it's digits is divisible by 9 |
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Math: Multiplying Fractions
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- Reduce
- Multiply straight across |
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Math: Dividiing Fractions
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- Reduce
- Multiply the recipical of the second fraction straight across |
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Math: Adding / Subtracting Fractions w/ different denominators
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- Multiply the denominators
- Bowtie - Add or Subract across |
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Math: Percentage Increase/Decrease
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Percent Change = (Difference / Original) x 100
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Math: Exponents
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- 2^2 x 2^4 = 2^6
- 2^6 / 2^2 = 2^4 - 3^-2 = 1/3^2 = 1/9 - (4^5)^2 = 4^10 |
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Math: Plugging in
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- 10 and 100 are good numbers
- In mins/secs problems, 30 or 120 are good numbers - Alawys plug in at least twice in Quant Comp Questions |
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Math: Average Pie
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Total
________________________ # of | Average Things | |
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Math: Statistics
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- Median - middle value in a set of numbers
- Mode - number or range of numbers in a set that occurs the most (think mode=most) - Range - different between the highest and the lowest numbers in a set |
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Math: Standard Deviation
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- referes to how much the numbers in a set vary from the mean of the set
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Math: Bell Curve
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- Normal distribution percentages: 34% : 12% : 2%
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Math: Rate
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Distance or Amount
________________________ Time | Rate | |
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Math: Ratio Box
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| X | Y | Total
ratio | | | * by | | | real | | | |
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Math: Parallel Lines
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- When two parallel lines are cut by a third line, only big angles and small angles are formed
- All the big angles are equal, all the small angles are equal - The sum of any big and small angle is always 180 degrees |
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Math: Triangles
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= The length of any one side of a triangle must be less than the sum of the other two sides and greater than the difference between the two sides
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Math: Pythagorean Theorem
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Common Triangles
- 3-4-5 - 6-8-10 - 5-12-13 |
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Math: 45-45-90 Triangle
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- Isosceles right triangle
- The lenth of each short leg is x - The length of the hypotenuse is x*sqrt(2) |
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Math: 30-60-90 Right Triangle
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- Shortest side is x
- Hypotenuse is 2x - Remaining side is x*sqrt(3) |
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Math: Circles
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Circumference = 2Pi*r
Area = Pi*r^2 |
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Math: Slope
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- y = mx + b
- Slope = rise / run |
