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Aaahhhh! Gre's Are Coming! Panic!

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Get one of the study guides - you can pick these up in bookstores or on Amazon. I think Princeton and Kaplan both have ones with CD rom's so you can "take" sample tests in the same format that the test is given.

The math portion will be pretty well covered in the book, as will the verbal. The trick is the analytic section. Here is how they separate the "wheat from the chaff" as it were in the analytic test. There are three kinds of questions: ones that you can solve mechanically (so it makes sense to do little charts etc), ones that you can't solve, but can easily eliminate the wrong answers, and (this is the tricky bit) ones where if you shift your perspective from the details (which got you the first two kinds of answers) to the whole - it's easy to see what the answer has to be. Generally the are given in that order - so the first question in a set will have a mechanical solution, the second a negative solution, the third a wholistic solution. If this doesn't make sense, I'll write more. This kind of "perspective switching" is what the sort of people who become philosophers "do" naturally - so if it doesn't come naturally to you, you are a normal person!:) But I can explain it more to help you "get" it.
 
Please keep explaining Eleanor... I'd rather have too much info than not enough!

Meadowsweet,you're pretty darn amazing yourself!
 
Honestly, I would take a practice test if you can so you can see where your strengths and weaknesses are. Then find out which books are strongest in those areas (look at ratings on Amazon) and concentrate on that. If you are really hardcore, buy a general book and several books on specific sections. If you are on the go, Barron's has a set of flashcards for the new GREs. I am working on studying for them, too, this summer so good luck!
 
http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing

Just looked - they changed the analytic section. It is now writing based - so... while I could sit with you for hours and help you learn to do this... I don't have this new test scoped out enough to be able to say anything useful. The books (for the revised GRE) are your best bet. If you have specific questions or confusions after looking at them, I'm happy to do my best to answer. For you too rebOrn!
 
I might take you up on that--thanks, Eleanor! I just bought my first full book for the new GRE after months of shopping...the NOVA GRE prep course, which had good reviews online.
 
I got one of the practice books, which is helping. Someone else told me just take practice tests over and over

And good luck to you too, reb0rn
 
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