11/4 Did you take a GRE prep course (e.g. Kaplan)? If so, which one?
Would you recommend it? It's a bit expensive.
\_ I strongly reccomend the Kaplan cd/book. I think it's about
40 bucks, but I'm positive that I got a much higher score
than I would have without it. I don't think the classes
are useful unless you lack discipline. All of the test
reverse engineering is there in the book/cd.
\_ Depends on what you need. If you have decent math skills,
then any decent book will cover most of the basic types
of questions you'll deal with on those sections. The
best thing for vocab I found was to study the "hit list,"
of frequently used words on the test (I think it's in
the Princeton review book). It's not that many words to
learn, but they really do pop up quite often. If you're
gonna take the computer version, you might also want to
make sure to get a cd with practice tests in that format
just to get used to it.
\_ Take a practice test and see how you do. If you get below
2000 I'd take the class, it will help you raise your score
at least 200 points, provided you actually do the hw and
take the practice test on the recommended schedule.
\_ GRE is now out of 1600 (800 for verbal & 800 for quant) with
a analytical writing section out of 6.0. I used the Kaplan
GRE CDs & helped a bit when i took it last year. |
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