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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…

GMAT vs GRE: Which Test Should You Take?

As the GRE has gained more acceptance among business schools, the myth that the GRE is an inferior exam or one that would somehow sabotage an applicant’s business school chances has been pretty much dispelled. The GRE was changed over…

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…

The GRE is a Thinking Test

Many students prepare for the GRE with the same mindset that they’ve adopted toward tests throughout their academic lives. In college and high school, much of the preparation for an exam was often focused on memorizing rules and content and…

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