I am searching for a 1-6 months-long (or longer) GRE study programs.
I am familiar with conventional American programs such as Kaplan and
Princeton Review, but am convinced that the only way to significantly
improve one’s score is to participate in a full-immersion program (a
boot-camp of sorts), that requires relocation and a prolonged time of
study. I have heard of such programs in China and India, and wonder
if they exist in the US. In the absence of such, I would like to find
out if any English-speaking programs are available world-wide.
In your answer I am looking for 1)Name of the program 2)Link to a site
that contains relevant information, in the absence of which 3)
Information about the price and details of the program.
I am willing to pay up between 20-75$ for the information, depending
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Request for Question Clarification by
cath-ga
on
14 Jul 2003 13:43 PDT
Hi oriin,
This is a tough one! If you tell me what field of study you are in,
and what field of graduate school you intend to pursue, that might
help. I may have found a "bootcamp" for biomed students. Also
can you tell me what area of the country you are in, and whether
you're open to tutoring instead of/or in conjunction with
classroom instruction? Thanks for any direction you can give me!
cath-ga
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Clarification of Question by
oriin-ga
on
14 Jul 2003 15:29 PDT
I am going into Humanities, and therefore am taking the general GRE
(whereas biomed students probably take a Bio GRE which is a different
test). Anything beyond that should not matter, Currently I am
residing on the West Coast, but am willing to relocate. I am aware of
many tutoring options, and really am just looking for a dedicated
program (vs. one that just requires you to attend a class).
Yeah, it is a tough question -- I was not able to find anything on my
own. Let me up the compensation to 50-75$ to make it worth the time
spent.
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Request for Question Clarification by
cath-ga
on
14 Jul 2003 19:12 PDT
Hi Oriin,
I have an e-mail in to the Educational Testing Service. The writers
of the GRE might just know about something like this. Princeton
Review never did hear of such a thing. (I called them)
I found one full-time GRE study program, but it is for speakers of
English as a second language. They take two nights a week with
the American students, then two more sessions a week separately.
English isn't your second language, is it?
I also found a program which includes free access to its
classroom sessions (18 hours) with purchase of is
tutoring progam, 15, 25, or 35 hours. If you combine
the two and add homework and work in their computer
lab, you'd probably come up with a good month of prep.
Does this interest you?
Still looking...cath-ga
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Clarification of Question by
oriin-ga
on
14 Jul 2003 22:04 PDT
Good evening, cath.
English is my first language. Your second suggestion is not quite
what I am looking for. Let me know if you find something and thanks,
Dennis
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Request for Question Clarification by
cath-ga
on
15 Jul 2003 13:31 PDT
oriin, Hi!
I spoke with Kevin Gonzales, media relations officer for the
Educational Testing Service. He hadn't heard of any such bootcamp.
He said that when the GRE went to computer testing, the
test prep companies had a big problem, because now the tests
are administered year-round. Without six big test dates,
there are no really large phalanxes of students all wanting
to prep at the same time, so the classes had to become smaller.
He thought the immersion idea would be hard to do because
the smaller class size would make it prohitively expensive.
Here are the search terms I used:
GRE + full-immersion + month
test preparation + full immersion
GRE test preparation
test preparation bootcamp
GRE bootcamp
GRE immersion on yahoo
GRE study
GRE Prep program
full-time GRE prep
graduate record exam course
“immersion GRE test prep”
Perhaps someone else can find what you're looking for. If not,
I'd be happy to help you put together a combination of
tutoring, classroom, lab, and homework that should help.
Good luck, cath-ga
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