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Heather Landers; Steven Ihde; Athena Kennedy

Are you planning on attending graduate school, but nervous about having to take the GRE? Unsure of what you need to study to be prepared for the exam? This short course will build your confidence by going over the exam logistics, talking through the different sections of the exam and the format of exam questions in each section, give you the opportunity to take practice exam questions, and provide additional tips for preparing and studying for the GRE. Much of the course will be spent on content and questions similar to those on the actual exam.

Topics covered will include:

Overview of the exam format: Taking the new, revised GRE Exam

Overview of the Analytical Writing Measure

•Analyze an Issue

•Analyze an Argument

Overview of the Verbal Reasoning Measure

•Reading Comprehension

•Text Completion

•Sentence Equivalence

Overview of the Quantitative Reasoning Measure

•Math refresher

•Using the calculator

•Quantitative Comparison

•Multiple choice: Select one answer

•Multiple choice: Select more than one answer

•Numeric entry

Dates: Thursday, September 12, 7-8 pm--GRE Overview (Optional session)

Tuesday, September 17, 6-9 pm--Analytical Writing

Thursday, September 19, 6-9 pm--Analytical Writing/Verbal

Saturday, September 21 6, 9 am-12 pm--Verbal

Tuesday, September 24, 6-9 pm--Quantitative

Thursday, September 26, 6-9 pm--Quantitative

Saturday, September 28, 9 am-12 pm--Quantitative

Location: TBA (will be sent to registrants the first week of September)

Cost: $200

URL: http://tilt.colostate.edu/learning/shortcourses/grePrep.cfm

September 12 - September 28, 2013 7:00 PM - 8:00 AM

TBD - check event description

Heather Landers, 491-1324, heather.landers@colostate.edu