GRE Prep 2023 For Dummies with Online Practice
Explore Book- Use roots, prefixes, and suffixes to determine the gist of an unfamiliar word.
- Guess quickly if you’re stumped. The computer won’t let you go on until you’ve marked and confirmed an answer, and believe it or not, answering a few questions incorrectly hurts your score less than not finishing a section.
- Creating an approximate definition of the word in your mind
- Predicting the obvious opposite
- Remembering that words can have more than one meaning
- Choose positive or neutral answers, not negative ones.
- Guess quickly and move on when you encounter Roman numeral and negative/exception questions, because they’re often tricky and time consuming.
- Avoid picking an answer simply because it’s true. Always make certain that it answers the question correctly.
- Create a sentence that shows the relationship between the two words and then use that sentence on each answer choice.
- Beware of answers with inverse relationships (for example, part to whole when the question was whole to part).
- Read the entire sentence to get its gist before looking at the individual blanks.
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Search for key connector words (such as because, although, and however) that may change the meaning of the sentence from what you’d expect.
- Predict whether the blanks need positive or negative words.