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 [...]
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GRE: On Math
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. [...]
GRE: FAQs – Take 2
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. [...]
GRE: FAQs
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 [...]
The Veritas YouTube Channel
Veritas Tutors has recently launched its very own YouTube Channel (at http://www.youtube.com/veritastutors)! This channel is meant to realize part of Veritas’ dedication to open education and will showcase noteworthy clips and features from some of its paid services. To kick off this channel here, at the Veritas Blog, we’re proud to present the first clip [...]
How Do We Learn Best?
On September 6th The New York Times ran this article, debunking many of the sacred cows of education like learning styles and study habits. Here is our take on these issues and personal psychology:
Getting Academic Things Done – Seminar Recording
In this recent seminar, Veritas Tutors co-founders, Jay Bacrania and Andrew Magliozzi, spend an hour helping students think about organization and how to make themselves more effective students.
Guest Blog: Leveraging TOEFL Skills in Your College Classes
Introduction One of the things that we always encourage at Veritas is to see the value in test preparation that extends well beyond the test. By preparing in this way, you’ll both leverage your preparation for something greater than the test, and likely also do a better job of preparing yourself for the test as well. [...]
School Context in College Admissions
We recently received a question from a parent asking about a policy change at her child’s school, the esteemed Boston Latin School. With rampant student competition, the school has recently changed its policy to remove Honors classes from its Freshman curriculum. With no GPA weighting for ninth grade BLS students, this curious parent wondered whether [...]
How to get into (your) Harvard 2010
Thank you to all the guests who made it out to the second in our series of free seminars. This installment was particularly exciting. We were joined by Chris H. former Assistant Director to Admissions at Yale College and current member of the Veritas Tutors Admissions Consulting team.
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