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GRE Test Prep Workshop

Dates:February 23, 2013
Meets:8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 1 session
Location:ETSU Gilbreath Hall 305/306
Instructor:Instructor Information
Fee: $55.00

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 Description

ETSU'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