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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Richter]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We have some exciting news to share in GRE Land—a new edition of our bestselling 5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems enters the world today! If you aren’t familiar with the 5 lb. Book, let me tell you—it’s my favorite of all the Manhattan Prep GRE products. I destroyed it when I was studying [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have some exciting news to share in GRE Land—a new edition of our bestselling <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/store/strategy-guides/5-pound-book-gre-practice-problems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems</a> enters the world today! If you aren’t familiar with the 5 lb. Book, let me tell you—it’s my favorite of all the Manhattan Prep GRE products. I destroyed it when I was studying for the test. Struggling with exponents, I tore out the exponents chapter and did them on the train. Worried about rates and work problems, I cut them out of its pages and carried a stack around with me to do and redo in my downtime. I ransacked the chapters of any topic that I found difficult or daunting. (Can you say </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">combinatorics</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">? No, I mean literally, can you say it? Because I couldn’t until I started working here at Manhattan Prep.) I love that the chapters are organized by topic, so </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">you</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> decide where you need practice and take a targeted deep dive. With over 2,000 GRE practice problems, you’re going to find the practice you need.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With this new edition, my favorite GRE book gets even better. Here’s what we’ve added&#8230; </span><span id="more-12110"></span></p>
<h4><b>NEW! Mini Mixed Sets</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve added eight mini mixed sets—four Quant and four Verbal—for you to use for timed practice. There are 10 practice problems in each set (half of a full GRE section) for you to do within 15 minutes (Verbal) and 17.5 minutes (Quant)—half the time of a full GRE section.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is an exciting addition, because a critical piece of GRE study is doing mixed timed practice. It doesn’t need to be a whole practice test or even a whole Quant or Verbal </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">section </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">for it to be valuable—just practicing with mixed content, under timed conditions, for 15 minutes (or 17.5 for Quant), and then reviewing your work, is a fantastic use of study time. You are able to rehearse things like:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mental flexibility (shifting between topic areas and problem types)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Test strategy (What did you skip? What did you guess on? How else did you make timing decisions, and would you make these decisions again?)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time-pressure skills (breathing between problems, maintaining/resuming focus while feeling anxiety)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And you’re able to, on review, ask yourself important questions about your test-taking chops, like:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What would I do differently next time? </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I’m taking the GRE, I’ll want to repeat _____________ [thing that you did during your mixed timed set]</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I’m taking the GRE, I </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">won’t </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">want to ____________ [thing that you did that didn’t serve you well]</span></li>
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<h4><b>NEW! Math Cheat Sheets</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m so, so thrilled about this addition, because we often hear this from our students: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where can I find all of the math rules in one place?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Until now, we haven’t had a great solution. But in the 3rd edition of the 5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems, you’ll find four sets of Math Facts for the GRE, organized by topic area: algebra, arithmetic, geometry, and statistics. These are great for quick and easy reference when you forget a formula or rule. And these are definitely the kind of resource that, during my GRE study days, I would have torn out of the book and carried around with me in my bag. </span></p>
<h4><b>NEW! Math Drills</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The third and final new section of the new edition are our math drills—100 of them, organized by topic (absolute value, algebra, averages, circles&#8230;to name the first few). This way, you can drill to drive home particular concepts and save the GRE-like problems for when you feel like you’ve got the idea and are ready to practice in the “real” test format. This isn’t to say you should do drills first and save the book’s GRE practice problems for after. I suggest you move between the drills and practice problems as needed. If you’re struggling on the GRE practice problems, revisit the topic in the </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/store/strategy-guides/math-strategies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Math</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/store/strategy-guides/verbal-strategies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Verbal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Strategy Guide, try a few of the 5 lb. Book drills, then return to GRE practice problems.</span></p>
<h4><b>NEW! Extra Access to Interact<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> for GRE</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And last, as a perk of buying the new edition, you’ll get an enhanced free trial of </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/prep/on-demand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interact for GRE</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, our on-demand learning platform with video lessons, drills, and quizzes. After registering for the trial (you’ll find instructions inside your book), you’ll have access to the first 15 lessons of Interact and the corresponding GRE practice problems. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that’s all I’ve got—so for those of you who are like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">TL;DR</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, basically: the <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/store/strategy-guides/5-pound-book-gre-practice-problems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems</a> just got even heavier, albeit with some high-quality weight. All the more reason not to be afraid to tear it up, make it your own, and carry the useful parts around with you. ?</span></p>
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<p><em><strong><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-12222 size-thumbnail" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/12/mary-adkins-150x150.png" alt="mary-adkins" width="150" height="150" /><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/mary-richter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary Richter</a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in New York, NY.</strong> She&#8217;s also GRE Product Lead and an Instructor Manager at Manhattan Prep. Her first novel will be published in 2019. <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/classes/#instructor/61" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out Mary&#8217;s upcoming GRE prep offerings here!</a></em></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stacey Koprince]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got another one for you from our 5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems, and this one&#8217;s serious. I took it from the Advanced Quant chapter. Try it out and then we&#8217;ll chat!  Triplets Adam, Bruce, and Charlie enter a triathlon. There are nine competitors in the triathlon. If every competitor has an equal chance [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got another one for you from our <a href="//www.amazon.com/lb-Book-GRE-Practice-Problems/dp/1937707296" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline">5 lb. Book of GRE</span><span style="text-decoration: underline"> Practice Problems</span></a>, and this one&#8217;s serious. I took it from the Advanced Quant chapter. Try it out and then we&#8217;ll chat!</p>
<blockquote><p> Triplets Adam, Bruce, and Charlie enter a triathlon. There are nine competitors in the triathlon. If every competitor has an equal chance of winning, and three medals will be awarded, what is the probability that at least two of the triplets will win a medal?</p>
<p>(A) 3/14</p>
<p>(B) 19/84</p>
<p>(C) 11/42</p>
<p>(D) 15/28</p>
<p>(E) 3/4</p>
<p align="right">© ManhattanPrep, 2013</p>
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<p> </p>
<p><img decoding="async" style="margin: 5px;padding: 0px;border: 0px" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2000/HiRes1.jpg" alt="gre triathlon" width="355" height="238" align="right" />Yuck. I&#8217;m not a fan of probability in general and this one is particularly annoying. Why? Because they ask for the probability that <em>at least two</em> will win. Most of the time, when a probability question uses <em>at least</em> or <em>at most</em> language, we can use the cool 1 “ <em>x</em> shortcut because there&#8217;s only one not-included case.</p>
<p>For example, if I tell you I&#8217;m going to flip a coin three times, I might ask you to calculate the probability that I&#8217;ll get at least one heads. There&#8217;s only one case where I wouldn&#8217;t: zero heads. So you can just calculate the probability of zero heads and subtract from 1.</p>
<p>But we can&#8217;t do that here, because it&#8217;s possible for just 1 twin to win a medal and it&#8217;s also possible for zero twins to win a medal. Sigh.</p>
<p>Okay, how are we going to tackle this? Probability is a measure of the number of desired outcomes divided by the total number of possibilities. Let&#8217;s figure out the total number of possibilities first.</p>
<p>Take a look at the question again. Is this one of those questions where the order matters? If you don&#8217;t win, you don&#8217;t win. If you do win, does the question make a distinction between coming in first, second, or third?</p>
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<p>Nope. An actual contest probably would, but this question only makes one distinction: you either win a medal or you don&#8217;t. If Adam, Bruce, and Charlie come in 1-2-3, or if Charlie, Bruce, and Adam come in 1-2-3, the outcome is the same as far as the problem is concerned: all three win a medal. As a result, order doesn&#8217;t matter in this problem.</p>
<p>There are nine competitors; 3 will win a medal and 6 will not. Use the order doesn&#8217;t matter formula to figure out how many possible combinations there are:</p>
<p><img decoding="async" style="margin: 5px;padding: 0;border: 0" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/04/stacey-5lb-advanced-quant-1.jpg" alt="gre advanced quant 1" /></p>
<p>And simplify:</p>
<p><img decoding="async" style="margin: 5px;padding: 0;border: 0" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/04/stacey-5lb-advanced-quant-2.jpg" alt="gre advanced quant 2" /></p>
<p>3 × 4 × 7 = 84</p>
<p>Okay, there are 84 possible ways for 3 out of the 9 competitors to win medals.</p>
<p>Now, how many of those will include at least 2 of the triplets? Let&#8217;s start with the easier case: all 3 win. There&#8217;s actually only 1 possible way that all three triplets could take all 3 medals(since order doesn&#8217;t matter). All that matters is that the three medals are taken by the three brothers, in any order.</p>
<p>What about the cases where only two of the three win? Let&#8217;s stay that Adam and Bruce win but Charlie doesn&#8217;t. Is there only one way for that to happen?</p>
<p>No “ there are actually 6 ways for that to happen! Let&#8217;s say that the 6 other contestants are named D, E, F, G, H, and I, respectively. So one winning set could be Adam, Bruce, and D. Another winning set could be Adam, Bruce, and E. Essentially, Adam and Bruce could be paired with any one of the other 6 “ just not their brother Charlie.</p>
<p>Likewise, if Adam and Charlie are the two who win, they can be paired with any one of the other 6. And if Bruce and Charlie are the winners, they can also be paired with any one of the other 6.</p>
<p>There are 18 different ways, then, in which two of the three triplets win. Add that to the 1 way that all three can win: there are 19 different ways that at least two of the three triplets win.</p>
<p>Because there are 84 possible combinations overall, the probability that at least two of the triplets will win is 19/84.</p>
<p>The correct answer is B.</p>
<p>What if you had to guess? Is it more likely that all 3 of the triplets will win a medal or that none of the 3 will? Since there are more competitors, the competitors are more likely to take the top 3 spots than are the triplets.</p>
<p>Is it more likely that 2 of the 3 triplets will win a medal or that 1 of the 3 will? Let&#8217;s say that 1 triplet wins a medal. For the remaining two medals, we have a choice of 2 other triplets and 6 non-triplet competitors. It&#8217;s more likely, then, that the non-triplet competitors will win the remaining medals¾there are more of them. So, again, it&#8217;s more likely that a lower number of triplets will get medals.</p>
<p>The overall probability for at least 2 triplets, then, should be less than 50%. Eliminate answers D and E and guess from among the other three choices.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Key Takeaways for Messy Probability:</strong></p>
<p>(1) First, probability isn&#8217;t super-common on the test, so if you hate these, do know the basics but also know how to guess. If you get a harder one (like this one), just guess and move on!</p>
<p>(2) If you do want to tackle a tough probability problem, first try to think about it in real-world terms. Pretend you&#8217;re the one running the triathlon and awarding the medals. This will make it easier to figure out, for example, that order doesn&#8217;t matter in this particular problem.</p>
<p>(3) Next, break things into smaller parts. <em>Probability</em> = <em>desired</em> / <em>total</em>. I have a formula to calculate the <em>total</em>. I can break the <em>desired</em> portion down into exactly-2-win or exactly-3-win. And so on!</p>
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<p>© ManhattanPrep, 2013</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stacey Koprince]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>  We&#8217;ve very excited because our latest book, the 5 lb Book of GRE Practice Problems, is about to hit shelves! The book contains more than 1,100 pages of practice problems (and solutions), so you can drill on anything and everything that might be giving you trouble. Let&#8217;s try out one of the problems! This Text Completion [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>We&#8217;ve very excited because our latest book, the <a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/gre/blog/index.php/2013/01/29/the-gre-5-lb-book-is-coming/#.UQlEMx070uc" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline">5 lb </span><span style="text-decoration: underline">Book of GRE</span><span style="text-decoration: underline"> Practice Problems</span></a>, is about to hit shelves! The book contains more than 1,100 pages of practice problems (and solutions), so you can drill on anything and everything that might be giving you trouble.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s try out one of the problems! This Text Completion (TC) problem has just one blank, so give yourself approximately 45 seconds to get to your answer. Afterwards, we&#8217;ll solve the problem and also discuss how to approach TC questions in general.</p>
<blockquote><p>After many years of war and bloodshed, some become ____________ suffering, casting a blind eye to scenes of misery around them.</p>
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<td valign="top" width="163">inured to<em></em></td>
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<td valign="top" width="163">exempted from</td>
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<td valign="top" width="163">dominant over</td>
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<td valign="top" width="163">effusive towards</td>
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<td valign="top" width="163">maudlin over</td>
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</table>
<p align="right">© ManhattanPrep, 2013</p>
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<p>There are several important steps that help us to answer TC questions both effectively and efficiently.</p>
<h3>(1) Read <em>only</em> the sentence</h3>
<p>Read all the way to the period, but do NOT then jump to the answer choices. Instead</p>
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<h3>(2) While reading, look for the Target, Clues, and any Pivots</h3>
<p><em>The Target</em>: The blank is talking about <em>some</em>thing; what is that thing? Is it a particular person or other noun in the sentence? Is it an action?</p>
<p><em>Clues</em>: At least one clue will be present to tell us what kind of meaning the answer choice must have</p>
<p><em>Pivots</em>: Does the sentence change direction at any point? Do the clues point in the same direction as the blank, or should the blank go in the opposite direction?</p>
<p>In our sample question, the blank is talking about a characteristic of some people mentioned in the sentence “ these people become something. This is our target.</p>
<p>There are two clues that help us get at the desired meaning. First, something happens <em>after</em> many years of war and bloodshed “ that is, these experiences somehow change people. How? Some people start to cast a blind eye to scenes of misery around them.</p>
<p>Are there any pivots? Both of these modifiers are connected to the main part of the sentence by commas, but there are no contrast words that might indicate a change of direction. In other words, the meaning in the blank agrees with the clue. Further, remember that the blank happens because people experience a lot of war and bloodshed “ that is, there is a cause-effect relationship.</p>
<h3>(3) Write your own Fill-In, then find a match in the answers</h3>
<p>This is a <em>crucial</em> step; do not skip it. Figure out what kind of meaning you think the blank should reflect <em>before you look at the answer choices</em>. Then, when you look at the answer choices, ask yourself does this word match the meaning of what I decided should go in the blank?</p>
<p>Why is that so important? Let&#8217;s say that I tell you I want a word that means really happy. Then I show you a list of 5 words. Here they are:</p>
<blockquote><p> </p>
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<td valign="top" width="115">morose</td>
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<td valign="top" width="115">apoplectic</td>
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<td valign="top" width="115">ecstatic</td>
</tr>
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<td valign="top" width="115">garrulous</td>
</tr>
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<td valign="top" width="115">zealous</td>
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</tbody>
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<p> </p></blockquote>
<p>Which of these questions is easier to answer:</p>
<p>(1) What does each word mean?</p>
<p>(2) Which word means really happy?</p>
<p><em>You do not care what each word means.</em> You only care about finding the <span style="text-decoration: underline">one</span> word that means really happy. You can look at a word and think this doesn&#8217;t mean happy much more quickly than you can articulate the specific definition of that word.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t make your life harder: figure out what you think the blank means before you look at the answers. In our original problem at top, we might think something like, Well, if you see a lot of terrible things and that causes you to be sort of blind to the suffering of others, then maybe it&#8217;s something like ˜people become <span style="text-decoration: underline">used to</span> suffering or ˜people become <span style="text-decoration: underline">so used to</span> suffering <span style="text-decoration: underline">that they don&#8217;t notice it anymore</span>.</p>
<p>Notice that we didn&#8217;t come up with one single word to put in the blank. That&#8217;s fine “ you don&#8217;t need a real vocab word. You just have to get the meaning straight in your own mind, using whatever words make the most sense to you.</p>
<p>Write your fill-in down. Okay, now we can look at those answers!</p>
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<p>Which of these answers means to get so used to something that you don&#8217;t really notice it anymore?</p>
<p>If you picked the first answer, inured to, then you are absolutely correct. Inured has the meaning that we articulated above.</p>
<p>What about the other four answers? While the clock is ticking, it&#8217;s enough to know that the word doesn&#8217;t mean what you want it to mean. After we&#8217;re done with that set of problems or that test, though, we should go back and make sure that we feel comfortable with all of the vocabulary that shows up anywhere in the problem.</p>
<p>If someone becomes exempted from something, that means he or she is no longer required to do something or can skip something. To become dominant over might signify to conquer or to dominate something or someone. Effusive denotes someone who is doing something to excess or having an over the top reaction Finally, a maudlin person is sad or weepy and overemotional. Note the trap in this last answer. A test-taker might easily think that after many years of war and bloodshed, someone could become sad or overemotional, but the meaning at the end of the sentence contradicts that interpretation; the sentence describes people who <em>stop</em> noticing the misery.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s possible that we won&#8217;t be able to articulate the kind of meaning that we want to have for the blank. At this point, we&#8217;re likely going to have to guess, but there are strategies we can use to try to narrow down the answers a bit. We&#8217;ll talk about these in a future article.</p>
<p>The correct answer is inured to.</p>
<p><strong>Key Takeaways for Text Completion Problems:</strong></p>
<p>(1) Know your three steps: (1) read the full sentence; (2) find the target, clue, and pivot; (3) write your own fill-in, then match to the answers.</p>
<p>(2) While the clock is ticking, do NOT try to fully define each answer; rather, try to find the one answer that matches what you think should go into the blank. Afterwards, of course, study any words you don&#8217;t know well enough.</p>
<p>(3) Aim to average about 1 minute per question on text completions. For one-blank questions, plan to work a bit faster than average; for three-blank questions, you&#8217;ll likely go over the average a bit.</p>
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