I wish this article is some kind of help to people who are undertaking the tough work on GRE . This chapter is all about the paper test. Do not apply these trategies to the computer test because they won’t work.If you haven’t picked a format yet, go back and reread chapter 1. You should not read this chapter unless you know without question that you intend to take the paper test. Most people approach the GRE with one goal in mind: to finish. In other words, "I must work on each and every question on this test because if I Don’t, I lose potential points." Well, guess what? This thinking is why most people do poorly on the GRE.
The first thing you have to realize is that you are in the land of ETS, and you can’t operate in the land of ETS as you do in the real world. In the real world, the more you do, the better. But in the land of ETS, the more you do, the worse.
If you read through this book and learn only one thing about the paper test, it should be: The best way to improve your score is not to finish. Tather, it is to work on fewer questions and make sure you get those questions right. Less is actuall more. ORDER OF DIFFICULTY
How? How can doing less actually get you more? It doesn’t make a lot of sense yntil you understand how ETS constructs the GRE.
Basically, there are three types of questions on the GRE: Easy questions, medium questions, and hard questions. What makes an easy question easy? An easy answer.What makes a hard question hard? A hard answer. Well, how do you know which questions re easy and which questions are hard? It’s incredibly simple. ETS follows rigid order of difficulty on the GRE. On the verbal sections, the first third of the group of any question type is easy, the next third is medium, and the last third is hard. In othr words:
Easy sentence completions # 1-2 Medium sentence completions # 3-5 Hard sentence completions # 6-7 Easy analogies #8-10 Medium analoggies #11-13 Hard analogies #14-16 Easy antonyms #28-30 Medium antonyms #31-34 Hard antonyms #35-38 Notice that the one question type not mentioned above is reading comprehension. For reading comprehension, there is no order of difficulty. It’s the only question type doesn’t fit the mold. NO WORD OF YOUR OWN?
Together the clue and the triggers help you come up with your own word for the blank. There are times, however, when you won’t be able to come up with your own word--even though you’ve found the clue and the triggers. What do you do then?
You can still use the clue and the triggers to help you. Even though you may not be able to come up with your own word, you can often tell if what goes in that blank is positive or negative. If you know the owrd is positive, then you can liminate any answer choice that contains a negative word. If you know the word is negative, then you can elminate any answer choice that contains a positive word.
