Brent@GreenlightGRE

If you're interested, we offer a free, step-by-step study guide to help you prepare for the GRE: http://www.greenlighttestprep.com/study-guide/overview Cheers, Brent

There's a blurry line between what the ETS puts in its syllabus and what appears on the test. It's safe to say that, if it isn't in the syllabus then it's not tested. However, I wouldn't suggest that a topic's inclusion in the syllabus necessarily means that it is tested. Or at least the majority of people won't see it. Functions are covered in Section 2.6 (on pages 24 and 25) of the ETS syllabus. As you'll see, you don't need to know how to find the inverse of a function, and you don't need to know anything about direct and inverse proportions (although these concepts may be indirectly tested within other concepts such as ratios). The revised GRE curriculum does seem to suggest that they'll be testing some kinds of graphs (as well as certain transformations even), but I doubt that most people will see such questions. You might see a transformation question if you're hovering in the 167+ range, but even this seems unlikely. I'd stick with evaluating functions, and perhaps identifying the domain of a function (but not the range). Cheers, Brent - Greenlight GRE

When preparing for the GRE, it's important that you cover only those concepts that the GRE tests. I say this because I've seen some resources that have repurposed other courses and failed to either remove superfluous content that the GRE doesn't test or add content that the GRE does test. ETS's Official Guide to the GRE Revised General Test is a good start. If you're interested, we offer a free, step-by-step Study Guide that ensures that you cover everything that the GRE tests: http://www.greenlighttestprep.com/study-guide/overview Cheers, Brent

I just want readers to be sure what we mean when we say that Trig is not tested on the GRE. This means that you don't need to know anything about sine, cosine and tangent. However, you still need to know a lot about triangles, such as: - Angles add to 180 degrees - The Pythagorean Theorem - Area of triangle (including the ever-useful special formula for the area of an equilateral triangle) - Special right triangles (30-60-90 and 45-45-90) - (difference between other 2 sides) < 3rd side < (sum of other 2 sides) - and probably more Cheers, Brent

If you're interested, we have a free video explaining how all of the buttons work on the GRE's onscreen calculator. Cheers, Brent

You want to plug in numbers that represent a nice cross-section of all numbers (big, small, positive, negative) I recommend 0, 1, -1, 1/2, -1/2, 10 and -10 If you're interested, we have a free video on plugging in values: http://www.greenlighttestprep.com/module/gre-quantitative-comparison?id=1098 Cheers, Brent