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…
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…
One of the pitfalls for students studying for the GRE is balancing content learning with the cultivation of appropriate test-taking strategies. If you work under the misconception that the GRE is simply testing your ability to memorize rules and formulas,…
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,…
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…