As long as we're on the topic of GRE preparation, let me refer you to Sheppard Software, where all kinds of free web games are available to help you learn geography and expand your vocabulary. The "Learn SAT/GRE Words" quizzes have not thrown me any unexpected curves, but the "Expert Word List" quizzes provide a much stiffer challenge. I've taken four of them, and I'm averaging around 75-80%. These are pretty humbling; I know many of the words, and some of the others I know I knew at some point. But some of these words are either totally new to me, or they're words that I remember encountering maybe once or twice in context but have never really been certain of their meanings.
But I'm just putting off the inevitable...does anyone know of any free online SAT/GRE math quizzes?
Posted by Stacie at January 8, 2005 10:10 AMI remember during my first year of grad school talking to my Chinese office-mate (also a first year) who was just learning to speak English. We eventually got around to comparing GRE scores. We were pretty much even on the Quantitative and Analytical sections, but he blew me away on the verbal part. I asked him how he did it, and he said he memorized 10,000 GRE vocabulary words and their definitions. That was humbling. A few months later, I was driving around with him up north and he said, "this place is very bucolic." Huh?
Posted by: Jim at January 8, 2005 10:54 AM