Study effectively for the GRE. This GRE test prep course prepares you for the analytical writing, verbal reasoning, and quantitative reasoning sections of the exam.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Structure of the GRE
- GRE scoring
- How the GRE test adapts to you
- Establish baseline score and set goals
- Prepare a study timeline
- Build your study sequence
- Overview of the GRE essays
- Review sample GRE issue essay prompt
- Review sample GRE argument essay prompt
- Scoring criteria for both essays
- Develop a thesis for the issue essay
- Issue essay examples
- Argument essay flaws
- Language, grammar, and writing mechanics
- Analyze an issue essay
- Analyze an argument essay
- Overview of GRE math questions
- Build math concepts
- Test-taking math skills
- Build mental math skills
- Using the calculator
- Quantitative comparison technique
- Estimation technique
- Backsolving technique
- Translation technique
- Variables in choices (VIC) technique
- Adding numbers technique
- Make things look alike technique
- Find patterns technique
- Trial-and-error technique
- Integers: Factors, multiples, and remainders
- Integers: Even and odd and primes
- Order of operations
- Number properties
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Multiplying and dividing fractions
- Decimals
- Mental percents
- Taking percents and increasing by percents
- Percent change
- Ratios and proportions
- Direct proportion and inverse variation
- Exponents
- More exponents
- Fake exponent rules
- Scientific notation
- Square roots
- Cube and fourth roots
- Operations with expressions
- Multiplying expressions
- Algebraic identities
- Linear equations
- Linear equations with two variables
- Quadratic equations
- Linear inequalities
- Functions
- Symbol functions
- Coordinate geometry
- Function graphs
- Distance between points
- Equation of a line
- Finding intercepts
- Special slopes
- Solving incomplete points and equations
- Solutions of lines and inequalities
- Quadratic equation graphs
- Circle equations
- Absolute value graphs and graph shifts
- Averages
- Mixtures
- Rate
- Work
- System of equations
- Interest
- Number lines
- Arithmetic sequences and sums
- Sequence word problems
- Point, lines, segments, and planes
- Angles
- Parallel lines
- Polygons
- Triangles
- Pythagorean theorem
- Special right triangles
- Area of a triangle
- Congruent triangles
- Similar triangles
- Quadrilaterals
- Circles
- Circle area and circumference
- Boxes
- Cylinders
- Frequency
- Mean, median, mode, and range
- Quartiles and percentiles
- Standard deviation
- Normal distribution
- Intersection and union of a set
- Venn diagram problems
- Permutations
- Combinations
- Basic probability
- Either/or probability
- Probability word problem example
- Graph and chart questions
- Overview of verbal reasoning
- How to build vocabulary
- Use word roots to build vocabulary
- Improve reading comprehension
- Identify the function of a passage
- Reading efficiently
- Overview of text completions
- Learn the text completion technique
- Use signposts
- Double-blank text completions
- Triple-blank text completion
- Analyze complex sentences
- Difficult vocabulary in text completions
- Review text completions
- Sentence equivalence overview
- Difficult vocabulary in sentence equivalence
- Review sentence equivalence
- Reading comprehension overview
- Read for the big picture
- Read critically
- Basic question technique
- Detail questions
- Whole passage questions
- Word-in-context questions
- Inference questions
- Select-all and select-in-passage questions
- Wrong answer types
- Review reading comprehension questions
- Overview of function questions
- Basic function question technique
- Review function questions
- Overview of logic questions
- Logic question technique
- Strengthen an argument technique
- Weaken an argument technique
- Explain a paradox
- Wrong answer types
- Review logic questions
- GRE test-taking strategies
- Conclusion and next steps
Taught by
Vince Kotchian
