Study-Abroad Exam Preparation
GRE General Test Preparation
Independent preparation for the GRE General Test's Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Analytical Writing sections, with original practice passages and self-review writing tasks.
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Who it's for
Learners preparing to take the GRE General Test for graduate-school admission, at any starting point.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the GRE's five-section format, section-level adaptive scoring, and the 130-170/0-6 scoring scales
- Apply section-specific strategies across Text Completion, Sentence Equivalence, Reading Comprehension, Quantitative Comparison, and data analysis
- Complete a self-assessed diagnostic, section practice, and a mixed mock test, and self-review a timed Analytical Writing response against real GRE-style criteria
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Test Overview & Adaptive Format
The GRE's five-section structure, timing, and the section-level adaptive scoring mechanism.
Verbal Reasoning
Text Completion, Sentence Equivalence, Reading Comprehension, and critical-reasoning strategy with original practice passages and arguments.
- 18 min
Verbal Reasoning: Text Completion Strategy
How Text Completion questions work and how to predict the missing word before looking at choices.
- 18 min
Verbal Reasoning: Sentence Equivalence Strategy
Selecting the two answer choices that both complete a sentence with the same overall meaning.
- 22 min
Verbal Reasoning: Reading Comprehension Strategy
Practicing main idea, detail, and inference questions against an original short passage.
- 20 min
Verbal Reasoning: Critical Reasoning and Argument Structure
Identifying conclusions, premises, and assumptions in a short original argument.
Quantitative Reasoning
Arithmetic and algebra, geometry, data analysis, and the GRE-specific Quantitative Comparison format.
- 22 min
Quantitative Reasoning: Arithmetic and Algebra
Percentages, ratios, and translating word problems into algebraic equations without common traps.
- 20 min
Quantitative Reasoning: Geometry
Applying core geometry formulas correctly, and why GRE figures are usually not drawn to scale.
- 20 min
Quantitative Reasoning: Data Analysis
Computing mean, median, and range from a described data set, and avoiding unsupported extrapolation.
- 20 min
Quantitative Reasoning: Quantitative Comparison Strategy
The GRE-specific 'Quantity A vs. Quantity B' format and how to test values systematically.
Analytical Writing
Structuring the Analyze an Issue task, plus test-day pacing and section-level adaptivity strategy.