East Tennessee State University
Office of Professional Development
PO Box 70559
Johnson City, TN 37614
PO Box 70559
Johnson City, TN 37614
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East Tennessee State University
Office of Professional Development
PO Box 70559 Johnson City, TN 37614 |
GRE Test Prep Workshop
Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available. Registration fee includes all-day workshop, continental breakfast and lunch. Course DescriptionETSU's School of Graduate Studies and the Office of Professional Development in the School of Continuing Studies will offer a day-long workshop to assist prospective graduate school applicants to prepare for the Graduate Record Examination.Participants in the workshop will receive coffee and a continental breakfast, lunch, five hours of instruction on the Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative, and Analytical Writing Measures of the GRE. They will also take three half-hour practice test, receive scores for those tests along with advice on improving their scores. Subjects covered in the workshop will include: Test-taking strategies for the new GRE Resources to prepare for the exam Score scales and timing for the three measures Reading comprehension questions Select-in-Passage questions Text completion questions Sentence equivalence questions Analyze an Issue essays Analyze an Argument essays Use of prompts in the analytical writing measure Quantitative Comparison: Greater than/less than, comparing the sizes of parts of geometric figures Algegra: Recognizing graphs of functions, evaluation of functions Geometry: Areas of regions, lengths of geometric figures, angles Data interpretation: Reading graphs, interpreting tables, bar graphs, pie charts Word problems: interpretations and strategies |
