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Here’s a great guest post/video from our friends at Accepted.com. In this short video, Linda Abraham explores the two kinds of optional essays, who should write them, and what should go into them. Don’t miss the crucial warning at the end! By Accepted.com, the premier admissions consultancy and essay editing company that has helped applicants around [...]
AWA Issue Task Step 1: Brainstorming
For many, the Issue essay is tough. In a short 30 minutes you are expected to come up with a persuasive essay on a topic you may know little about. And your readers aren’t your peers (who would probably be somewhat lenient in any omissions in logic). Instead, the GRE test graders are standing by, [...]
GRE Reading Comprehension: Meaning in Context
On the GRE a special type of question asks you to determine the meaning of the word based on how the word is used in the context of the passage. These questions are called vocabulary-in-context questions and usually comprise a few questions per test. The best way to solve a vocab-in-context is question is to [...]
Will My Undergraduate College’s Ranking Hurt My Chances of Getting into Grad School?
Here’s a great guest post from Dr. Thomas of Your Grad School Coach, enjoy! Colleges and universities earn bragging rights for appearing at the top of magazine “America’s Best College” lists, but what do these rankings really mean? What kind of impact does it translate to for the student who is going onto graduate school? [...]
GRE Vocab Goes XXX
Yes, the title is tongue-in-cheek. But there will definitely be ‘x’ words on the GRE – and by that I mean ‘ex’ words. These vocab beasts have long been the bane of many a student, as many blur into one word. The key is not just learning the definition but coming up with an effective [...]
GRE Eponyms
An eponym is any word that is derived from a person’s name. In the past I’ve mentioned how English is the most promiscuous of languages, absorbing languages as unrelated as Sanskrit and Finnish into its bulging lexicon. By extension, I’ve also mentioned how relying on Latin/Greek roots can oftentimes cripple your word detective skills. Thwarting [...]
GRE Perfect Math Score Challenge
The Revised GRE is a long, grueling test. To get a perfect score on the quantitative section (a 170) you will not only have to answer the difficult questions correctly, but you will also have to answer all of the easy ones. Nonetheless, I’ve focused on the difficult questions for the 170-challenge. I can’t promise [...]
Magoosh GRE Android app, prep on the go
You may have been wondering what the Magoosh team has been up to recently. Well, we’ve been hard at work on a secret project… We’ve been creating a Magoosh GRE Android app! Many Premium users of our online GRE prep product have been asking for a better mobile interface and that’s what we wanted to [...]
Backup Strategy for GRE Text Completions
The solution to many Text Completions lies in the following approach: identify the keywords, come up with your own word for the blank(s), and match with the answer choice. Yet this strategy won’t always be successful. Sometimes we need to work backwards from the answer choices to see if we can create a sentence with [...]
Test your GRE Vocabulary Skills
How strong is my vocabulary? As you prep for the GRE, this is a question you may have already asked yourself. Practice tests and practice questions have already given you a sense of this. Yet it is never a bad idea to get a vocab assessment. Below, I’ve done my best to pick words indicative [...]
