Dave Scalise is a tenured Full Professor at the University of San Francisco where he has taught more than 25 different courses in Business, Mathematics, Logic, and Law at the undergraduate and graduate level; received several university and college teaching awards; written more than 45 articles appearing in numerous domestic and international academic journals; originated more than 100 presentations, and created 150 voice tracks, pod casts, and educational films over his career.
His current research interests include Trade Mark, Trade Dress, Contracts and Mediation.
Professor Scalise is the founder of The Fairfax Lectern, Inc. a Northern California educational publishing company that has copyrighted more than 16 books, articles, CD ROMs and other electronic preparation materials for entrance exams (ACT, SAT, LSAT, GRE, and GMAT) which have helped more than 50,000 students worldwide.
Professor Scalise provides the verbal content for Magoosh GRE and for other test prep programs soon to be offered by Magoosh.
Posts by Professor Dave:
- Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence Tips: Catch Word Strategy
Directions: First, watch the introduction video. Then, in each of the following 10 sentences use the blank space to write in two or more possible answers. Pay close attention to the wording and logic of the sentence. Focus on the way in which the sentence provides clues about the relationships between words… - Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence Tips: Categorizing Signposts Strategy
For insights and strategies on how to attack the Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions on the GRE watch the following video closely… - Text Completion Tips: The Clue Sweeper Exercise
Watch this introductory video to understand how to use clues to master text completion… - Just the Facts: The New GRE Essentials
- New GRE Exam Format
The GRE is “section-level adaptive.” This means the difficulty of the second section (verbal, for example) is determined by how well you did on the first (verbal) section. Of course, this adaptive feature does not alter your preparation, pacing, or focus… - Overview of the New GRE: Text Completion Question Types
ETS test-makers say that the “Text Completions measure your ability to recognize words or phrases that both logically and stylistically complete the meaning of a sentence.” Further, the Text Completion section… - Overview of the New GRE: Sentence Equivalence Question Types
Sentence Equivalence questions are much like the Text Completion questions we just covered. They test the ability to reach a conclusion about how a sentence should be completed on the basis of partial information. But to a… - Overview of the New GRE: Math Question Types
The ETS states: “The quantitative reasoning measure is designed to assess your ability to solve problems in a quantitative setting, using quantitative reasoning, elementary mathematical concepts, and basic… - Overview of the New GRE: Reading Comprehension Question Types
Five-Choice Question Formats may (among other things) ask you to search for pertinent information in the passage, deduce the main idea; theme, or purpose of the piece; define a word in the context of your reading;…
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