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Stories abound about how someone’s friend’s cousin’s roommate took the GRE cold (with no preparation) and aced it. This story may be true on a very rare occasion, but you hear only the success stories. Those test-takers who went cold and bombed it don’t brag about the outcome. As an instructor, however, I hear those other stories all the time.

The GRE doesn’t test your intelligence: It tests how well you’ve prepared for the test. I’d put my money on a prepared dunce over an unprepared genius every single time. Dramatically raising a test-taker’s score, say from the 30th to the 90th percentile ranking, is something I do every day before breakfast, and it’s what I do for you in this book. Being prepared means knowing what to expect and how to answer the questions, which means that the first time you calculate a fraction of a circle had better not be on the actual GRE. Make your mistakes here, in practice, not on the test.