Comprehensive GRE Course: Strategies, Practice, & Review

1. Daily classes of 1.5 hour June-Aug 2011 By: shivgan3@yahoo.com 1-on-1 Course for the New GRE

2. Content • About the teacher • How to use Wiziq • Introduction to the Course • Types of Question Old vs. New • Developing a personalized Strategy and setting up targets • Books Required for the study • References

3. About the Teacher • Premium teacher at Wiziq.com • Have taken more than 400 public classes all of which can be accessed on Wiziq • Scored 630/800 in Verbal (91%ile) May 2011 • All important concepts also uploaded on Youtube • One of the biggest video collection on GRE (uploaded on Wiziq)

4. How to use Wiziq • Request a trial from Wiziq.com; you may call them as well for support, maintenance and training • Lets see how to access old recordings and use Wiziq (by Screen Sharing) • What all you get in this course

5. Introduction to the New GRE • What is the new GRE • Lets check the ETS Website now (by Screen Sharing)

6. Introduction to this course • Attending the Classes and learning process • Solving problems from the books • Attempting paper tests • Power Prep 2

7. Personalized Strategy • Building a strategy for you • How to use the next 3 months; fix the dates • Use Google calendar and also the calendar on your mobile; sharing strategy file on gdocs • Strict time table to complete the resources that are targeted • We will start with the Official Guide to GRE and then move to Verbal Workout for the New GRE

8. Course Buildup Tentative Preparation time (20 June - 30 Aug) • Level 1:1 hour/day class for 10 days (then a break of couple of days or more as required) • Level 2: 1 hour/day class for 10 days (then a break of couple of days or more as required) • Level 3: 1 hour/day class for 10 days Practicing the tests from Power Prep 2 and other tests • Final Level: Doubt solving classes for the test questions

9. Which one is better? • New GRE is not dependent on non-context vocab, gives a change to get 99%ile in math, as 800/800 is old is still 92%ile • More focus on RC and FIB • More than once choices correct questions • Along with this, I will be working on GRE Big book: RCs and Sentence Completion which remains the same. • And also vocab learning techniques which will be the same.

10. GRE Secrets for the NEW GRE! • Still ETS is using the ETS Big Book based collection (see yourself: screen sharing) • The questions of RCs have now become easier as chances of long RCs is minimized • Time bound gaming has become very more relevant which very less people understand • Memory no longer an issue for the exam! • All major RC areas and ETS’s predilection remains exactly the same • Importance of Sitters has increased

11. Resources/Text • New GRE 2011-2012: Strategies, Practice, And Review by Kaplan • McGraw-Hill's Conquering The New GRE Math • Cracking The New GRE, 2012 Edition • New GRE 2011-2012 Premier (With CD-ROM) by Kaplan • Big Book ETS Publication

12. ETS asks (while registration) • Used free GRE test preparation software or books published by ETS • Used GRE test preparation book published by ETS or ETS/McGraw-Hill • Used test preparation book or software published by another publisher • Used ScoreItNow!TM Online Writing PracticeAccessed test familiarization information on the GRE website

13. Unique exclusive features • Application of Yoga and Dhyan series • GRE secrets and untold things revealed • Strategy for exam temperament • Daashatra Technique for vocabulary • Book Reviews to get the crux of many books

14. Major areas • Reading comprehension related areas (very scientifically dealt with) • Sentence completion (strategically resolved area) • Vocab based questions (requires longest time) • AWA

15. Official Guide to GRE (Level 1) • Target time to complete this book • Use camera and take picture of doubts, email me or bring the jped / pdf files to the class to discuss doubts • Or tell me the page number during the live class

16. How to read OGG • Bible for the exam • A publication by ETS • One thing comes out that the exam is moving move toward critical reasoning (page 56) • Long passages cannot have multiple choice question • Since exam of Verbal in two parts, longer passages cannot fit in • This book is the book of revelations

17. GRE Math • The best part here is that 800/800 was common(which was 92%) but the new GRE’s math will give you 99%ile

18. ETS says: • The GRE Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE® revised General Test contains three types of questions: • Reading Comprehension • Text Completion • Sentence Equivalence • Multiple-choice Questions — Select One Answer Choice: These are the traditional multiple-choice questions with five answer choices of which you must select one. • Multiple-choice Questions — Select One or More Answer Choices: These provide three answer choices and ask you to select all that are correct; one, two or all three of the answer choices may be correct. • Select-in-Passage: The question asks you to click on the sentence in the passage that meets a certain description.

19. Reading Comprehension Strategy • Time in each of 3 types of questions • More than one option correct (1/7 vs 1/2) • Size of passage • Pre knowledge • Making notes for direction / diagramming like T or A or V • Importance of triggers • Sitters vs time takers

20. Text Completion Strategy • Tone • Direction of the passage • Diagramming and symbols • Political language • Paraphrasing • Checking flow at the end • Grammar(parts of speech) / active-passage / idiomatic usage ie parallelism

21. References • Please see the old ppts • Refer to common docs with me on google docs • Use skype to call me