"I HAVE AN ADMISSION TO MAKE" GRE / CBT by Richard J. Rome Copyright © 1996, All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Forewords:
Dr. Joseph Cooper, Professor of Political Science and
former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Johns Hopkins University...............................................9
Dr. William E. Fitzgibbon III, Chairman and Professor
of Mathematics, University of Houston..................................10

Acknowledgments........................................................11
HIGHER SCORES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.....................................12

Introduction...........................................................16
    - If you pay peanuts to prep.......................................19
    - guessing: defensive/offensive/horseshoes and hand grenades.......20
    - cups and doughnuts during your test..............................21
    - the possibilities worth considering..............................26-28
    - the keys.........................................................29
    - Manage, to have a good time on your test.........................31

THE MATH PREP/GMAT, GRE
MATH 1: fractions, ratios, percentages, averages.......................32
    - reinforcement test Math-I (answers, scoring, solutions)..........71-76
MATH II: the real number system........................................84
    - integers (are integral), odds, evens.............................84
    - algebraic operations.............................................87
    - identities.......................................................89
    - factors, multiples...............................................90
    - prime numbers, composite numbers.................................90
    - The powers of exponents..........................................91
    - perfect squares that are not bourgeois...........................93
    - Radicals are a good riddance.....................................99
    - Please excuse my dear aunt Sally for leaving the room............102
    - variables in terms of other variables............................103
    - equalities vs inequalities.......................................107-108
    - Does symbolism give you an embolism?.............................111
    - reinforcement test Math II (answers and solutions)...............115-121

GEOMETRY: Math III, Math IV, Math V, Math VI
MATH III: Geometry (the first dimension)...............................129
    - angles, lines....................................................129
    - triangles........................................................130
    - the right triangle...............................................131
    - quadrilaterals...................................................134

    - polygons.........................................................136
    - face diagonals...................................................137
    - circles..........................................................139
    - Re-recount twenty-two keys.......................................148
    - reinforcement test Math III (answers and solutions)..............149-156
MATH IV: Geometry of Areas (the second dimension)......................167
MATH V: Cartesian coordinates..........................................177
    - reinforcement test Math IV, V (answers and solutions)............181-187
MATH VI: Geometry of Volumes (the third dimension).....................196
    - space diagonal...................................................197
    - reinforcement test Math VI (answers and solutions)...............207-213
MATH VII: WORD PROBLEMS
    - variation........................................................220
    - Does motion make you throw up?...................................225
    - work problems....................................................229
    - assigned-value problems..........................................233
MATH VIII: GORDIAN COUNTING, COMBINATIONS..............................237
    - the fundamental principle of counting............................237
    - finite probability, odds, independent trials, more guessing......244
    - reinforcement test Math VII, VIII (answers and solutions)........246-252
    - exhaustion as a means, rather than an end........................256
MATH IX: QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON (QC)/GRE ONLY.........................259
    - reinforcement test Math-IX-1 (answers and solutions).............261-267
    - reinforcement test Math-IX-2 (answers and solutions..............278-285

THE VERBAL PREP
VERBAL I: antonyms work forwards and backwards. (GRE/CBT ONLY).........337
    - reinforcement test Verbal-IA and -IB.............................349,354-359
    - analogies (GRE/CBT ONLY).........................................360
    - a typology.......................................................372
    - reinforcement test (answers and types............................373-378
    - sentence completions (GRE/CBT ONLY)..............................379
    - annotate structural clues (telltales)............................382
    - rehearsal........................................................384-389
    - reinforcement test/sentences completions and analogies...........393-400

CRITICAL READING/PROSE with a #2 pencil................................401
    - choosing the correct answer......................................416

CRITICAL READING/NARRATIVE (fiction/nonfiction)........................455
    - rhetorical devices...............................................391


TEST OF STANDARD WRITTEN ENGLISH (TSWE) GMAT, GRE
question types/directions/how to approach the questions................467
    - diction errors: homophones are a haven for malapropisms..........468
    - mixed metaphors, "Apology does not mend the offense."............470
    - substandard usage (sic) ain't no way to communicate..............471
    - Idiom is habit-forming...........................................472
    - verbosity by Calvin Coolidge.....................................472
    - grammar, the rules most commonly violated........................475
      - subject-verb agreement.........................................475
      - pronouns and their antecedents.................................480
      - tense and verb forms...........................................486
      - God bless the subjunctive!.....................................488
      - fragments......................................................492
      - parallelism....................................................492
      - modifiers......................................................500
      - She looks as a horse, and other comparisons....................503
    - logical connections..............................................506
    - ten-interrogative checklist......................................507
WRITE EXTEMPORANEOUSLY by I.M. Promptu; GMAT, GRE, LSAT................518

THE LOGIC PREP (GMAT, GRE, LSAT).......................................536
VENN DIAGRAMS..........................................................536
LOGICAL REASONING (50% of the LSAT 120-180 score)......................546
    - the conditional mood by Rudyard Kipling..........................546
    - reading and reasoning acuity.....................................548
    - anatomy of arguments/evidence links assumption to conclusions....556
    - limited samplings, parallel reasoning, paradox...................566
    - Are you "antisymmetric?".........................................568
    - fallacious, inconsistent and discrepant disputations.............587
    - how to dynamite an English argument by the IRA...................595
    - how to buttress an English argument by Oscar Wild................595
    - deductive vs. inductive arguments by Sherlock Holmes.............597
    - stratificational grammar nodes vs. Venn diagrams.................602
LOGIC GAMES (Analytical Reasoning) 101
    - sequent (spatial and temporal) skills............................606
    - matching attributes..............................................613
    - charting, scheduling, tabulating.................................622
    - group games......................................................624
    - syllogistic games................................................629
    - capsulate to maximate............................................632
    - alternation games................................................633
LOGIC GAMES (Analytical Reasoning) 102
    - circle alternations..............................................636
    - composite and complex group games................................641
    - family tree games................................................650
    - complex charting, scheduling, tabulating.........................654
    - matching multiple attributes.....................................659
    - hybrid games.....................................................662
    - grand slams A John McEnroe game..................................666

PERORATION IN THE LOCKER ROOM BEFORE THE TEST..........................669

GLOSSARY...............................................................672