GRE Word Problems: Favorite Tricks and Traps
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The GRE is a fair test. GRE word problems will always give you enough info to turn the words into the right equations. However, that doesn’t mean they’ll make the translation easy or obvious! To make tough GRE word problems tougher, the test writers use certain words and phrases that they know are frequently misinterpreted. This makes you more likely to write down the incorrect equations and more likely to get the problem wrong. Read more
De-Tangling Difficult Word Problems on the GRE
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Let’s start with a problem that’s been giving my students trouble recently. Read it through, but don’t try to solve it—yet.
