The “article of the months” can be seen as falling along a spectrum. On one side, we have not-at-all-GRE like, vocabulary and elevated style notwithstanding, and at the other end, we have could-appear-on-the GRE.
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GRE Article of the Month – April and May 2015
April: Sight Unseen: The hows and whys of invisibility May: What part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand? Both articles by Kathryn Schulz for The New Yorker The next two articles of the month are going to be a two-for-one special. That is, not only are the articles drawn from the same publication (The […]
Active Reading Strategies for the GRE
Read the following passage and then we’ll talk: Once American men returned from the WWII battlefields, they quickly displaced the women who had temporarily filled jobs otherwise reserved for men. With most women reverting to their domestic role, the dramatic increase in the number of infants born is perhaps not too surprising. Yet, such factors […]
GRE Article of the Month: March 2015 – Blame the Dog
Blame the Dog By Steve Donoghue for Open Letters Monthly Man’s best friend? Well, according to this article, clearly not to the Neanderthal, which Homo Sapiens wiped out—granted unwittingly. See, that eternal bond of human and dog, one that many of us have experienced, might have very well led to the extinction of the […]
GRE Article of the Month Roundup
Reading high-level articles in esteemed magazines and literary journals can help improve your vocabulary and vocabulary in context skills. Which, as it happens, is a great way to improve your score on the GRE exam! With this in mind, Chris Lele recommends a GRE-level article about once a month, as part of our GRE Article […]
GRE Article of the Month – January 2015: Reign of the Robots
Reign of the robots: How to live in the machine age By Ian Leslie for NewStatesman.com Photo by Timothy Krause I’m always fond of articles that remind me of GRE essay prompts. The prompt I have in mind is the very one that the Official Guide to the GRE provides for the essays it critiques. If […]
GRE Article of the Month – December 2014: We Are All Confident Idiots
This article of the month not only comes with words, it also comes with videos. And I just dare you not to laugh. We Are All Confident Idionts By David Dunning for Pacific Standard – The Science of Society Photo by Gratisography / Ryan McGuire But first off, let’s talk about the words. Well-written and filled […]
GRE Article of the Month – November 2014
What Book Changed Your Mind? The Chronicle of Higher Education Photo by merra marie When someone finds out that I’m an avid reader, that person often asks me what my favorite book is. Typically, I become lost amidst the swirling cosmos that represents the books I’ve read in the last twenty years. More difficult yet […]
GRE Article of the Month – October 2014
Why Academics Stink at Writing An article by Steven Pinker for “The Chronicle of Higher Education” In an attempt to promulgate the instantiations of high-ordered English as they tend to be recapitulated in eminent publications, I hope to both guide and edify those GRE-aspirants who are under the not totally unsurprising notion that the development […]
GRE Article of the Month – September 2014
Heaven’s Gaits: What we do when we walk By Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker Photo by Erin Gamble This article of the month is a meditation on something we do every day—walk. While that subject may sound sleep inducing, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik infuses his writing both with pointed—yet subtle—wit and fascinating historical […]