"I HAVE AN ADMISSION TO MAKE" GRE / CBT by Richard J. Rome Copyright © 2007, 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...............................................VI
Dr. William E. Fitzgibbon III, Chairman and Professor
of Mathematics, University of Houston..................................VII

Acknowledgments........................................................VIII

INTRODUCTION:  THE INNER GAME OF TESTING...............................XI
    - A topology of cups and doughnuts during your GRE/CBF.............XII
    - the Key's, high-test fuel for your mind:  random guessing........XIII,XVI
    - the possibilities worth considering..............................XIV
    - Manage, to have a good time on your test.........................XVIII

SECTION I: GRE ESSAYS EXTEMPORANEOUSLY by I. M. Promptu................1-18

SECTION II:  GRE QUANTITATIVE PREP
MATH 1: Fractions, ratios, percentages, averages.......................19-58
    - a high-score illusion............................................59
    - reinforcement test Math-I (answers, scoring, solutions)..........59A-75
MATH 2: The real number system.........................................76-106
    - integers (are integral), odds, evens.............................76
    - algebraic operations.............................................79
    - identities.......................................................81
    - factors, multiples...............................................82
    - prime numbers, composite numbers.................................82
    - The powers of exponents..........................................83
    - perfect squares that are not bourgeois...........................85
    - Radicals are a good riddance.....................................91
    - Please excuse my dear aunt Sally for leaving the room............94
    - variables in terms of other variables............................95
    - equalities vs inequalities.......................................99, 100
    - Does symbolism give you an embolism?.............................103
    - reinforcement test Math 2 (answers and solutions)................107-124

EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY:  MATH 3 – MATH 6
MATH 3: Geometry (the first dimension).................................125-142
    - angles, lines....................................................125
    - triangles........................................................126
    - the right triangle...............................................127
    - quadrilaterals...................................................130
    - polygons.........................................................132
    - face diagonals...................................................133
    - circles..........................................................135
    - Re-recount twenty-two keys.......................................143
    - reinforcement test Math 3 (answers and solutions)................143-167
MATH 4: Geometry of Areas (the second dimension).......................168-177
MATH 5: Cartesian coordinates..........................................178-182
    - reinforcement test Math 4 & 5 (answers and solutions)............183-202
MATH 6: Geometry of Volumes (the third dimension)......................202A-213
    - reinforcement test Math 6 (answers and solutions)................214-232
MATH 7: WORD PROBLEMS
    - variation........................................................233-247
    - Does motion make you throw up?...................................238
    - work problems....................................................242
    - assigned-value problems..........................................245
MATH 8: GORDIAN COUNTING, COMBINATIONS.................................248-255
    - the fundamental principle of counting............................248
    - finite probability, odds, independent trials, more guessing......254
    - reinforcement test Math 7 & 8 (answers and solutions)............256-274
    - exhaustion as a means, rather than an end........................269
MATH 9: QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON (QC)/GRE ONLY..........................275-311
    - reinforcement test Math-9-1 (answers and solutions)..............275-293
    - reinforcement test Math-9-2 (answers and solutions...............294-311
MATH 10: DATA INTERPRETATION (graphs and tables).......................312-333
MATH 11: MODE..........................................................334-335

SECTION III:  THE GRE/CBF VERBAL PREP
1. COMPLETIONS.........................................................336-350

2. CRITICAL READING....................................................351-392

3. LOGIC PREP..........................................................393-456
    VENN DIAGRAMS......................................................393-400
CRITICAL REASONING.....................................................401
    - the conditional mood by Rudyard Kipling..........................401
    - reading and reasoning acuity.....................................405
    - anatomy of arguments/evidence links assumption to conclusions....411
    - limited samplings, parallel reasoning, paradox...................421
    - Are you "antisymmetric?".........................................423
    - fallacious, inconsistent and discrepant disputations.............440
    - how to dynamite an English argument by the IRA...................446
    - how to buttress an English argument by Oscar Wild................446
    - deductive vs. inductive arguments by Sherlock Holmes.............448
    - stratificational grammar nodes vs. Venn diagrams.................454

PERORATION IN THE LOCKER ROOM BEFORE THE TEST..........................457

GLOSSARY...............................................................460-482