Increase Your GRE Score
Master the skills you need to succeed on the GRE with personal coaching sessions from a top test-prep expert, including powerful and intuitive strategies for all parts of the exam.
Students will work directly with one of the country’s leading specialists, who has written books for a major test-prep publisher. You will practice personalized, advanced strategies through up to 30 hours of phone or video coaching in weekly sessions that include a specific study plan, review of assignments, and analysis of timing and testing strategies. Compared to the typical classroom program, personal coaching gives you more hours for a longer period (13-26 weeks). Through individualized instruction, you will master effective strategies, including tools for people who struggle with math.
What You Will Learn
Discover effective tools and strategies and for success on every part of the GRE.
- Learn powerful, intuitive tools for mastering verbal, math and timing strategies.
- Get familiar with specific strategies for overcoming test anxiety, poor performance on standardized tests and math anxiety.
- Understand how to interpret the instructions for the Quantitative comparison questions, how to analyze data interpretation graphs and how to recognize the patterns of GRE math questions.
- Learn how to make decisions about using your time on the Quantitative section, including how to choose which questions to work on and how much time to spend on a question.
- Know how to skim Reading Comprehension passages for structure and how to master tools for distinguishing between two very close answer choices.
- Learn the underlying agendas for the Analytical Writing tasks and specific steps for creating an essay that will earn a passing score.
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Note:
- This is a 30-hour course.
- UC San Diego undergraduate students may be eligible to take this course for with financial assistance through the Student Grant Program. The $500 voucher would be applied to tuition and the balance would be paid by students.
- Please contact precollege@ucsd.edu with questions.
- The 30-hours of coaching should be completed within two quarters in which you register. If these hours are not completed during this time, attempts for make-up sessions will be made, but cannot be guaranteed.
Course Number: EDUC-90049
Credit: 0.00 unit(s)
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9/25/2023 - 3/23/2024
$1200
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Cutts, Jay
Jay Cutts is the lead author of the Barron's LSAT and MCAT prep books. Over the past 30 years he has helped over a thousand students get accepted to law school, med school, grad school, and business school. He specializes in individualized instruction and is a pioneer in teaching advanced intuitive strategies for test taking, timing, verbal problem solving, logical problem solving, math problem solving, and scientific problem solving.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDOfficial GRE Super Power Pack 2nd
by Educational Testing Service
ISBN / ASIN: 9781260026399
Official GRE Super Power Pack 2nd
by Educational Testing Service
ISBN / ASIN: 9781260026399
Intuitive Math - 100+ Power Strategies for ACT® and SAT® Math: Advanced Skills for the Math Anxious and the Math Gifted 2020
by Jay Cutts
ISBN / ASIN: 9781734630602
Intuitive Math - 100+ Power Strategies for ACT® and SAT® Math: Advanced Skills for the Math Anxious and the Math Gifted 2020
by Jay Cutts
ISBN / ASIN: 9781734630602
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
Pre-enrollment required.
No refunds after: 9/18/2023.
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NOTE:
Students can enroll within the course at any point during the scheduled start and end dates. The instructor will reach out to students within five business days of enrollment to schedule coaching sessions. Dependent on enrollment date, coaching sessions may be scheduled past the end date of the course.
9/25/2023 - 3/23/2024
Zoom Only
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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1/9/2024 - 3/25/2024
$1200
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Cutts, Jay
Jay Cutts is the lead author of the Barron's LSAT and MCAT prep books. Over the past 30 years he has helped over a thousand students get accepted to law school, med school, grad school, and business school. He specializes in individualized instruction and is a pioneer in teaching advanced intuitive strategies for test taking, timing, verbal problem solving, logical problem solving, math problem solving, and scientific problem solving.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDOfficial GRE Super Power Pack 2nd
by Educational Testing Service
ISBN / ASIN: 9781260026399
Intuitive Math - 100+ Power Strategies for ACT® and SAT® Math: Advanced Skills for the Math Anxious and the Math Gifted 2020
by Jay Cutts
ISBN / ASIN: 9781734630602
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
No refunds after: 1/2/2024.
-
NOTE:
Students can enroll within the course at any point during the scheduled start and end dates. The instructor will reach out to students within five business days of enrollment to schedule coaching sessions. Dependent on enrollment date, coaching sessions may be scheduled past the end date of the course.
1/9/2024 - 3/25/2024
Zoom Only
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Pre-College Programs department at 858-534-0804 or precollege@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.