So you want to expand your vocabulary in preparation for the GRE Verbal section. You may have even done a few sessions of flash card review – that was fun, wasn’t it? As I have asserted in a past blog entry, there are other, less-traditional but more “inspired” avenues to increase one’s GRE word awareness.  In my next few posts, I will help you throw back a few handfuls of lofty GRE words while providing [...]

Remember high school when you were preparing for the SAT and/or the ACT? Almost everyone you knew was getting ready for a standardized admissions test—and when you took it, it was on a specific date when hundreds of thousands of other people your age all over the country were taking exactly the same test.  It may have been agonizing or annoying, but at least it was shared agony and annoyance. Everyone who knew you was [...]

Every graduate school and graduate program website that you have perused likely has one common statement: “The Perfect Graduate School (TPGS) has a diverse student body” (exact wording may vary). Then, because that statement is just sitting there, hanging out in your subconscious, it starts to haunt you as you begin to write your personal statement. But I’m not diverse. I’m just a girl from a rural town in the South. But I’m not diverse. [...]

Do you remember details about phenomenology from our recent blog post and YouTube video? No? That’s okay! In fact, as Adi says, you don’t want to get caught up in the details of GRE Reading Comprehension passages. Instead, focus on the overall structure and tone for GRE test day success in Reading Comp. Take another 5 minute GRE study break and watch as Kaplan GRE expert Adi Hanash walks you through a GRE Reading Comprehension question that [...]

Recently, we posted a complex Problem Solving question on the KaplanGradPrep Facebook page. It intrigued a lot of people, so we decided it’s worth sharing here, too.   First, here are some strategy suggestions.  Unless you’re really adept with exponents, this is a good question to skip initially. Fractional exponents already designate this problem as a higher difficulty one, so you should make sure you get to other problems first.  When we say you should [...]