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ABOUT THIS BOOK
If you don’t have a pencil in your hand, get one now! Don’t just read this book—write on it, study it,
scrutinize it! In short, for the next six weeks, this book should be a part of your life. When you have
finished the book, it should be marked-up, dog-eared, tattered and torn.
Although the GRE is a difficult test, it is a very learnable test. This is not to say that the GRE is
“beatable.” There is no bag of tricks that will show you how to master it overnight. You probably have
already realized this. Some books, nevertheless, offer "inside stuff" or "tricks" which they claim will enable
you to beat the test. These include declaring that answer-choices B, C, or D are more likely to be correct
than choices A or E. This tactic, like most of its type, does not work. It is offered to give the student the
feeling that he or she is getting the scoop on the test.
The GRE cannot be “beaten.” But it can be mastered—through hard work, analytical thought, and by
training yourself to think like a test writer. Many of the exercises in this book are designed to prompt you to
think like a test writer. For example, in the math secti