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Subject: Re: Preparing for GRE's (especially Computer Science)
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Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 18:25:39 EST
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[please pardon a non-university posting; I was a student once...]

In article <5679@dartvax.UUCP>, cline@dartvax.UUCP writes:
>>In article <9186@duke.duke.UUCP> ravi@duke.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes:
>>>Can anyone advise me as to the best way to prepare for GREs?            
>
>Buy the GRE software that ETS now offers for the General Exam.
>I comes in IBM and Macintosh formats.  But beware the IBM version.
>It requires a color monitor to work correctly.

Is this a recent occurrence that Educational Testing Service is selling
preparation/practice material for its own tests?  In the past, I understood
they heavily played down the importance of "practicing" for their tests
(maybe so as to get a wider spread in scores :-) ).

Way back when I was looking around at grad schools (1980) I tried taking
the (tough!) GRE practice tests in a privately published guide (dunno
the name anymore, but it was NOT Kaplan)) and later found, much to my
relief, that I scored far higher on the GRE itself than on the practice
tests.  So even if you do lousy on practice tests, don't give up on the GRE.

It IS a good idea to take practice tests (I'd be surprised if you couldn't
get them in college bookstores, like I did) if only to familiarize yourself
with the format, and perhaps to identify any areas you might need to
"bone up" (is that an ancient phrase? :-)) on to feel comfortable.
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