GRE Subject Tests

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Keep an eye on the registration deadlines, which are about a month before the test date. If you're within a week of the October deadline and are still feeling a bit shaky on some aspects, register for the November test and give yourself the extra study time. If September rolls around and you're feeling good about the materials, sign up for October!

The bulk of the Lit GRE is analyzing and interpreting literature, albeit it at a much tougher level than the A&I CLEP. Get to know the greatest hits of the big-name novelists, poets, and (to a much lesser degree) essayists from the major literature eras. There will be a bit of Beowulf and Chaucer, and Shakespeare of course, but the focus is on the Brits from the mid 1700s to the late 1800s and the Americans from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s (plus Beat Generation and mega-major black authors from the second half of the 1900s - get familiar with Ginsburg, Kerouac, Burroughs, Morrison, Wright, Hughes, Ellison, and Baldwin).