{"id":4362,"date":"2012-07-23T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.gre.web\/blog\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:44:45","slug":"gre-data-interpretation-humor-from-xkcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/gre-data-interpretation-humor-from-xkcd\/","title":{"rendered":"GRE Data Interpretation: Humor from XKCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been feeling frustrated with the <em>abstruse, opaque<\/em>, even <em>occult<\/em> charts and tables on the GRE&#8217;s Data Interpretation section, you might find this amusing.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/xkcd.com\/688\/\"><IMG SRC=\"\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/self_description.png\" width=\"650\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p><small><A HREF=\"\/\/xkcd.com\/688\/\">Click to enlarge.<\/A><\/small><\/p>\n<p>To practice GRE charts and tables for real, see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three <a href=\"\/\/www.ets.org\/gre\/revised_general\/prepare\/quantitative_reasoning\/data_interpretation\/sample_questions\">sample questions with explanations<\/a>, directly from ETS<\/li>\n<li><A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/07\/data-interpretation-is-really-about-reading-carefully-well-that-and-percents\/\">Data Interpretation is Really About Reading Carefully (Well, That and Percents!)<\/A><\/li>\n<li><A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/01\/gre-data-interpretation-for-hipsters\/\">GRE Data Interpretation for Hipsters<\/A><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been feeling frustrated with the abstruse, opaque, even occult charts and tables on the GRE&#8217;s Data Interpretation section, you might find this amusing. Click to enlarge. To practice GRE charts and tables for real, see: Three sample questions with explanations, directly from ETS Data Interpretation is Really About Reading Carefully (Well, That and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-interpretation","category-gre-strategies","category-math-gre-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}