Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on May 12, 2012
One of the best perks of being a grad school coach is having friends in high places. I’m saying this in a tongue-in-cheek manner, by the way. But forserious (not a real word), the wonderful wonderful people at Magoosh have come up with a resource that I think you all need to hear about.
Magoosh Test Prep brings expert GRE and GMAT test preparation advice right here for YGSC readers, but their entire mission is to do test prep the 21st century way – online! You can read more of where I’ve sang their praises before on this blog. They really do know their stuff!
The GRE has changed so many times since I took it way back when that it’s hard to keep up. Unless you’re Magoosh because keeping up with the GRE is what they do. So they have created this TOTALLY FREE ebook to keep you abreast of all of the changes and how you can score high on the newly Revised GRE. [click to continue…]
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…]
Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on March 15, 2012
This is a great question, whether you’ve taken the old GRE or are just embarking on your GRE journey. The short answer is that the new GRE is still adaptive, but in a very different way.
The Adaptive Nature of the Revised GRE
On the old GRE, the test adapted within each section. The computer would assume that every test taker was equal and would start with a mid-range question. If the test taker answered a few questions correctly, the test would become progressively difficult. And if the test taker answered the questions incorrectly, the test would become easier.
The old GRE algorithm is slightly more nuanced than this, but really the details, at this point, are moot. We only care about the revised GRE. [click to continue…]
