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Biggest GRE Prep Mistakes

Have you been studying diligently for the GRE, but aren't seeing the results you want? Or did you take the exam and perform worse than you expected and lower than on your practice tests? As independent GRE tutors, we see…

Using (and Misusing) GRE Practice Tests

Among the many myths that abound regarding optimal preparation for the GRE, one of the more common and, unfortunately, more harmful ones is that there exists a direct relationship between quantity of practice tests taken and score improvements. And, unfortunately,…

Don’t Pigeonhole GRE Questions

If you've spent some time reviewing the various GRE resources out there, you'll inevitably run into advice espousing the best approach for certain situations. This is particularly true for word problems. You'll read that, for rates, you should always set up the R*T…

Mindfulness and the GRE

As an independent GRE tutor, I pride myself on finding unconventional means to boost scores when traditional, "big" test-prep strategies fail. Be it changing how I teach a concept, how I structure a lesson, or how I assign homework to…

GRE Word Problems: What’s in An Age?

A common type of word problem that gives many of my GRE students difficulty concerns age. Age questions are a sub-type of word problems and thus require the approach you should take toward all word problems: identify unknowns, assign variables,…

GRE Preparation: Where Do I Begin?

With the start of summer, I've been receiving a lot of panicked calls and e-mails from test-takers in their early stages of preparation. Much of the panic is some variation of the following: "I haven't done math in years, but…

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