April 2012

Backup Strategy for GRE Text Completions

Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life.

by Dr. Khia on April 26, 2012

Here are more tips from the Magoosh test preparation experts on scoring high on the GRE exam!


The solution to many GRE Text Completion questions lies in the following approach: identify the keywords, come up with your own word for the blank(s), and match with the answer choice. Yet this strategy won’t always be successful. Sometimes we need to work backwards from the answer choices to see if we can create a sentence with a coherent meaning. [click to continue…]

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I Wanna Be Rich

Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life.

by Dr. Khia on April 5, 2012

There’s this really cheesy R&B song from the early ’90s that goes “I wanna be rich, ba ba ba-ba-ba-da-ba.” It was a pretty big hit at the time. The melody and hook runs through my head every time I daydream about untold riches.

Tonight, I started reading Ramit Sethi’s book “I Will Teach You To Be Rich,” of which there is a highly successful blog that is its namesake. In the very first chapter, “Would You Rather Be Sexy or Rich,” he references the average college student’s dreams of being a millionaire by 40 years old. He doesn’t mention it explicitly but I imagine that for many of these college students, their imagined path to wealth involves a trek through grad school, which begs the question: [click to continue…]

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