GRE prep courses?

[cookderosa]

Bump.

Hi all, I'm also planning to take the general GRE exam very soon. Any suggestions for study resources? (Besides the Cracking the GRE book.)

I have nothing to report, I got a waiver by submitting my transcript for prior grad school work.

[Waldorfteacher]

i am studying for the revised GRE now and found a fantastic prep site that is first-rate. I have pasted the link below.

https://gre.magoosh.com/?referrer_code=f5366535k1p372

I am scheduled to sit the revised GRE the third week in January. For seasoned test takers who study exam construction as well as exam content, this site is for you. Magoosh covers both areas with over one thousand exam level practice questions followed by video explanations of how to arrive at the credited response. In addition, there are many short video
lessons covering every content area in the verbal & quantitative sections, as well as all levels of problem difficulty strategies.

As was posted already in this thread, time is the main adversary on this exam. Because the revised GRE is section adaptive and not question by question adaptive like the previous GRE model, you are allowed to skip through the questions in each section. This allows you to cherry pick the less time consuming questions in order to maximize your score. Easy or hard questions give the same credit. Because there are five sections following the two thirty minute
AWA essays, one unscored for test development, your score on the first verbal and first quantitative sections will determine the difficulty level on the subsequent sections. So, all totaled, there are seven sections which take almost four hours to complete.

My particular style of test preparation is piqued by test content in test format, i.e, real questions. Because the revised GRE has multiple response modes, you will be well served by practicing in the format you will see on test day. Check out Magoosh, you will be pleasantly surprised there is a GRE prep site at the level that Instantcert occupies in the CBE world.

[Levi]

Thanks, guys! I'll be checking these out.

[NAP]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I want to update this section of this great post:

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1. GRE POWERPREP VERSION 2.0 - ETS (the company that administers the GRE) provides a free standalone program with two full practice tests.
Pros: The tests were very close to what actually appeared on the real GRE in regards to both user interface and material.
Cons: The program does not tell you which questions were wrong! It only provides a score (130 to 170 for Verbal and Quantitative).

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This software does allow you to review your answers now after the test is scored. During this time, you can see which questions were answered correctly and what the correct answers were for the ones you got wrong. It does not provide explanations, though. These are official practice tests that are taken on the computer software that is like the real exams.

Update: I posted my feedback here: http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...post149773

[sklineho]

Great thread, thanks.