Useful Resources

 

GRE preparation and testing

 

GRE Testing:

 

Education Testing Services(Register, practice, order score reports)

      • To reserve a GRE test date, you must go through the ETS website and locate a test center near you.

       

      • After registering, ETS will send you a GRE powerprep CD that has two computer-based GRE tests and sample Analytical Writing essay topics.

       

      • ETS has useful study resources such as verbal and quantitative review material and additional pratice tests. Visit the Test Takers Download Library on the ETS GRE website.

Subject Testing(Biochem, Cell And Mol Bio; Bio; Chem)

      • Download pratice booklets for subject tests from the Test Taker Download Library.

 

 

GRE prep centers:

 

Kaplan

Princeton Review

      • Both programs have centers close to Pomona. You can sign up for GRE classes either at the center or online, or you can hire a private tutor. Kaplan provides free practice GRE tests and notifications for practice test dates appear in the CDO weekly newsletter.

 

GRE literature: (Found at bookstores or on Amazon.com)

General

    • Cracking the GRE, 2007 Edition by Princeton Review
    • Kaplan GRE Exam, 2007 Edition by Kaplan (comes with CD)
    • Barron's How to Prepare for the Gre Graduate Record Examination, 16th Edition by Sharon Weiner Green and Ira Wolf (comes with CD)

Subject

    • Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology (REA) - The Very Best Test Prep by Thomas E. Smith and Marguerite Wilton Coomes (2007)
    • Kaplan GRE Biology, 2nd Edition by Kaplan (2004)
    • Cracking the GRE Chemistry Test, 3rd Edition by Princeton Review (2005)