GRE Study Guide: Lessons, Strategies, and Diagnostic Tests

Welcome to the 2016 edition of Varsity Tutors’ GRE Study Guide: Lessons, Strategies, and Diagnostic
Tests. We hope that you’ll find the lessons contained herein useful for improving your scores on the
Revised General GRE, which can help you gain admission to the postgraduate program of your
choice.
While you will find some advice for test-taking in this book, its primary focus is skills-based. In
other words, if you can learn how to do the math or how to read passages effectively, just to name
two specific examples, you’ll do better on the test. Being able to apply your skills in a timely fashion
is the main consideration in approaching the GRE, but the skills you learn and use are broadly
applicable, and will help you succeed even after you’re done taking your exam. What that means for
you is that we’re not trying to sell you on a proprietary “method” or some made-up approach. This
book is designed to teach you the skills you don’t know and remind you of the skills you have, but
may have forgotten.