Geometry GRE Preparation Guide

Updated for the revised GRE, the Geometry Guide illustrates every geometric principle, formula, and problem type tested on the GRE to help you understand and master the intricacies of shapes, planes, lines, angles, and objects.

Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules, strategies and in-depth examples of how the GRE tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains both “Check Your Skills” questions in the chapters that test your understanding as you go and “In-Action” problems of increasing difficulty, all with detailed answer explanations.

Purchase of this book includes one year of access to 6 of Manhattan GRE’s online practice exams.

Chapter by Chapter

1. INTRODUCTION & THE REVISED GRE
Introduction, How to Use Manhattan GRE's Strategy Guides, The Revised GRE, Question Formats in Detail

2. ALGEBRA IN GEOMETRY
Using Equations to Solve Geometry Problems

3. TRIANGLES & DIAGONALS
The Basic Properties of a Triangle, Perimeter and Area, Right Triangles, Pythagorean Triplets, Isosceles Triangles and the 45-45-90 Triangle, Equilateral Triangles and the 30-60-90 Triangle, Diagonals of Other Polygons

4. POLYGONS
Quadrilaterals: An Overview, Polygons and Interior Angles, Polygons and Perimeter, Polygons and Area, 3 Dimensions: Surface Area, 3 Dimensions: Volume, Quadrilaterals, Maximum Area of Polygons

5. CIRCLES & CYLINDERS
The Basic Elements of a Circle, Sectors, Inscribed vs. Central Angles, Inscribed Triangles, Cylinders and Surface Area, Cylinders and Volume

6. LINES & ANGLES
Intersecting Lines, Exterior Angles of a Triangle, Parallel Lines Cut By a Transversal

7. THE COORDINATE PLANE
Knowing Just One Coordinate, Knowing Ranges, Reading a Graph, Plotting a Relationship, Lines in the Plane, The Intercepts of a Line, The Intersection of Two Lines, The Distance Between 2 Points

8. DRILL SETS

9. PRACTICE QUESTION SETS