The Veritas Blog » Test Preparation http://veritutors.com/blog The holistic approach to education Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:34:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ GRE: On Prime Factorization and Numerical Scale http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-on-factorization-and-scale/ http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-on-factorization-and-scale/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:00:55 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=489 Closing out 2010 and – incidentally – the first season of the Veritas Blog’s GRE Series, class-leader Kyle T. returns to Math and discusses the benefits of two specific numerical strategies on the GRE: prime factorization and numerical scale.

Rejoin us in the new year for all new posts, not only in the GRE Series but also in debuting series on College-Admissions, Statistics, and the MCAT. Happy 2011, all!

Warmly yours,

The Veritas Team

On the Benefits and Uses of Prime Factorization:

On Multiplying Large Numbers by Scale:

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-on-factorization-and-scale/feed/ 1 GRE: On Antonyms http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-antonyms/ http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-antonyms/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:15:42 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=486 From Analogies to Antonyms, this week Veritas’ GRE class-leader Kyle T. outlines the best strategies for approaching GRE Antonym questions and GRE Verbal overall. Drawing on his background in linguistic psychology, Kyle provides unique and valuable tools to GRE-preparers who may often find themselves daunted by the challenging and unusual words tested on the exam. Why are so many “sn-” words nose-related anyway? Stay tuned.

Happy holidays!

The Veritas Team

On Antonyms:

On Specific Strategies for Verbal:

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-antonyms/feed/ 0 GRE: On Analogies http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-analogies/ http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-analogies/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:00:25 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=483 Veritas Tutor Kyle T. covers the ins and outs of GRE Analogy questions this week, in this ninth post in our on-going GRE series.

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-analogies/feed/ 0 GRE: On Verbal http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-verbal/ http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-verbal/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:00:12 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=478 As promised, this eight post in the Veritas Blog’s GRE series addresses the Verbal part of the exam for test-takers. In the videos embedded below from the Veritas Tutors’ YouTube channel, GRE tutor Kyle T. introduces the best general strategies for approaching the Verbal sections and explains why it is so important to remain precise and objective in responding to those sections’ questions.

For more content on the GRE exam and specifically on GRE Verbal, check out the Veritas YouTube channel or stay tuned: Additional posts with specific strategies for Verbal, as well as sample questions on which these strategies are employed, are soon to come.

Happy prepping!

The Veritas Team

On General Strategies for GRE Verbal:

On Precision and Objectivity in GRE Verbal:

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/on-gre-verbal/feed/ 0 GRE: Important Factors in Preparing for the Exam http://veritutors.com/blog/remaining-gre-vids-from-disc-1/ http://veritutors.com/blog/remaining-gre-vids-from-disc-1/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:00:39 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=452 In this seventh installment in the Veritas Tutors’ GRE Prep. YouTube series, tutor Kyle T. addresses three important factors to be considered in preparing for the exam:

  1. the exam’s logical, problem-solving nature;
  2. the exam’s time-limitations on pacing; and
  3. the exam’s mental in addition to academic challenges.

Stay tuned, Verbal-focused students; the next installment in this series will be addressed to you!

Hoping you all had a wonderful holiday last week,

The Veritas Team

On Logical Problem-Solving and the GRE:

On Time:

On Mentally Preparing for Taking the GRE:

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On Real and Imaginary Numbers:

On Testing Numbers in the GRE’s Quantitative Comparisons:

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/particular-mathematical-pointers-gre/feed/ 0 GRE: On “Listening to” the Exam http://veritutors.com/blog/listening-to-the-gre/ http://veritutors.com/blog/listening-to-the-gre/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:00:04 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=444 In our last clips-installment, Spring 2010 GRE Prep. class-leader Kyle T. introduced the advanced strategy of “listening to” the GRE and letting its subtle instructions inform your problem-solving practices. In this post – as promised – the Veritas blog gladly presents Kyle’s more detailed explanation of what exactly this advanced strategy means for GRE-takers.

Stop guessing!

The Veritas Team

On “Listening to” the GRE:

On Avoiding “Sucker Answers”:

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/listening-to-the-gre/feed/ 2 GRE: On Math http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-math/ http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-math/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:00:28 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=442 For our fourth installment of clips from Veritas Tutors’ Spring 2010 GRE Prep. class, we at Veritas have decided to deliver the best of GRE Math. In our last post, class-leader Kyle T. introduced some truly solid and illuminative strategies for approaching both Quantitative Comparison and Problem-Solving, the two major types of GRE Math question. Now, in this post, Kyle expounds on these strategies by explaining how to cleverly reframe challenging problems and then let these perspectival alterations positively inform your work. As Kyle himself says, “You need to know the material [tested by the GRE], but you really need to [...] get in[to] the head of the GRE. It’s going to get into your head at first, but you need to [...] get in[to its] head. [Then it's] like, ‘O! Cool, I see what you’re doing here.’” Adopting this downright smart approach to taking the GRE is an advanced strategy that Kyle will describe in greater detail in the blog’s next clips-installment.

Stay tuned!
The Veritas Team

On Thinking of Numbers as Measures of Space in Calculations:

On Savvily Overcoming the Seeming Challenges of GRE Math:

On Reasserting Wits, or “Knowing What You Don’t Need to Know,” in Challenging GRE Math Problems:

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-math/feed/ 1 GRE: FAQs – Take 2 http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-faqs-take-2/ http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-faqs-take-2/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:37:46 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=437 Jumping off the theme of our last clips-installment, the Veritas blog is happy to now present a third installment of clips, excerpt from Veritas Tutors’ Spring 2010 GRE Prep. class.  These new clips focus, as will all the clips to follow, on the FAQs central to taking the GRE and to succeeding in doing so. The three clips embedded in this post specifically address (1) working with the implications of the GRE’s computer-adaptive scoring system and (2) preparing for and approaching the Verbal, Math, and Writing portions of the GRE at the most basic levels.

Look out for future posts with more advanced content here, on our blog, soon!

Warmly yours,

The Veritas Team

On Taking the Computer-Adaptive GRE:

On Rehearsing GRE Vocabulary:

On Approaching GRE Math:

On Excelling at GRE Analytical Writing:

]]> http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-faqs-take-2/feed/ 1 GRE: FAQs http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-faqs/ http://veritutors.com/blog/gre-faqs/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:22:26 +0000 admin http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=420 The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) inspires many questions in its takers, but some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) are not truly central to the actual test’s being taken. In response to these tributary FAQs about the GRE, we are proud to present here on the Veritas blog a second installment of clips from Kyle T.’s Spring 2010 GRE Prep. class. These clips and more may all be found on our recently inaugurated Veritas Tutors YouTube channel for more information.

On Applying to Graduate School:

On the GRE’s Role in Graduate Admissions:

On the GRE Subject Tests:

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