Taking the GRE is a big decision.  How you do on this test helps to determine which graduate school you will be able to attend.  How do you prepare for it?  How do you know what will be on it or how it will be graded?  There must be prep materials out there to help you, but where do you find them?  Don’t stress!  Register with Nova Press!

You could study with a book, but Nova Press has a GRE Preparation Website that is convenient and personalized.  You can access it anywhere you can access the Internet!  Other courses cost upwards of $699, but Nova Press’s GRE Online Course is only $49.95.  By registering with this course, you get access to GRE professionals who can give you feedback on your work as well as answer questions via live chat.  In addition, you get access to over 600 pages worth of material.

The course is set up in such a way that you can work your way through math, verbal, and/or writing content before taking practice tests OR go directly to the tests.  The course monitors your progress and directs you to the areas where you need more work.  If you have any question, just ask!  Most questions are answered in real time (during regular business hours), but all questions are answered with 24 hours.

The Nova Press GRE Online Course covers all of the content that the book does.  Separate sections for math, verbal, and writing help you to focus on the areas you need the most work.  Each section comprises a complete review of necessary materials, whether it be basic or more advanced math concept, grammar and punctuation review, or how to find your own writing style.  There are practice questions at the end of each topic, followed by answers and explanations on how to get the right ones.  The verbal section includes the 400 words and definitions that are most commonly used on the GRE.  Just to be on the safe side, Nova Press has included a section on Etymology, so if you do come across a word you don’t know, you can break it down to figure out its origins so you can increase your chances for a right answer on an educated guess.  The writing section includes rubrics, so you know exactly that the test-graders are looking for.

So if you’re looking for a GRE preparation website, look no further.  Nova Press’s GRE Online Course is the way to go.  It even comes with a guarantee:  If you still feel insufficiently prepared for the test after completing the course, you may repeat the course for free – with full access to our instructors!  Get prepared with Nova Press.

Originally posted 2012-04-05 02:10:35.

There are a lot of companies that claim to have the “Best GRE Books,” but the Nova Press GRE Prep Course and GRE Math Prep Course books truly are some of the best GRE books out there.  Whether you want to review everything on the test or just the math section, the Nova Press books cater to your needs.

The GRE Prep Course book thoroughly covers the three main sections of the GRE: math, verbal, and writing.  Each section gives an extensive review of important concepts and guidance on how to improve your work in those areas.  The math section addresses substitution, defined functions, number theory, quantitative comparisons, geometry, inequalities, and fractions & decimals, just to name a few areas.  The Math Notes section provides a brief overview of concepts while the individual subsections give clear examples with explanations, in case you need more detail.  Practice questions end each section, giving you an opportunity to apply what you’ve learned, and answers with explanations are provided in a separate area so you can check yourself.

The verbal section will help you improve your reading comprehension  by outlining steps to get to the real meaning of each reading excerpt.  As the GRE will ask for text completions, Nova Press again gives clear examples and explanations on how to arrive at the correct answer.  Perhaps the most valuable section are the vocabulary lists of commonly used terms on the GRE.  There is a main list, with the 400 most frequently used words, and then the 4,000 list with other possibilities.  That way, you are able to focus your attention where you feel it is most necessary.  Finally, just to make sure you have all of your bases covered, Nova Press has a section on Etymology, so that if you come across a word you don’t know, you can figure out its origins and make an educated guess as to its meaning.

Nova Press also has you covered with the writing section.  Aside from subsections on grammar and punctuation, the GRE Prep Course includes tips on how to develop your own writing style and on how to properly decipher the writing prompts, so you  know exactly what the test-graders are looking for.  Still need convincing?  The writing section includes rubrics for each of the essay types so you have a way to evaluate your writing consistent with the way the test-graders will.

Yes, there are a lot of books out there, but Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course and Nova Press’s GRE Math Prep Course are the best GRE books.

Originally posted 2012-04-03 00:33:02.

Need a convenient, specialized online course to help you prepare for the SAT?  Nova’s SAT Online Course is the way to go!  It’s and interactive and comprehensive course that you can move through at your own pace.  It includes over 600 pages worth of material with hundreds of SAT examples and problems.

By using Nova’s course, you gain access to our SAT experts, who provide personal feedback and can answer questions via live chat.  StudyDesk, another benefit to Nova’s course, allows you to track your progress and directs you to areas where you need to concentrate your study.  Plus, it allows you to move through sections at your own pace.  You can jump to specific content areas or go directly to the practice tests!

The course reviews concepts dealing with the verbal, math, and written sections of the SAT.  The verbal area gives specific tips on how to improve reading comprehension, critical reasoning, and sentence completion in addition to providing you with vocabulary lists and some tips on etymology.  By giving you the overview on etymology, Nova Press gives you the tools to determine the origin of words you don’t know so you can make an educated guess as to the definition, thereby increasing your chances of a correct answer.

Trying to improve your writing for the written section of the SAT can be a daunting task.  How do you  know what to review?  And how do you know what they’re looking for in your essays?  Nova’s SAT Online course can help you with the answer to these questions.  This portion of the course reviews basic grammar rules along with examples and explanations on how to determine the right ordering of words.  Practice sections allow you to put these rules to the test, and answers with explanations follow so you can make sure you’re solid.  This course also gives tips on how to develop your own writing style and on how to read the prompts so you know exactly what they’re asking.  Still wondering what they’re looking for?  Nova Press has included rubrics so you can gauge your own writing against what the test-graders would like to see.

The math portion gives clear explanations and examples of the many areas of math you should be familiar with.  Not sure what you need to review?  You can choose whether to go through the practice tests first and then go back to review content you got wrong, or you can work your way through the content  before taking a test.  With Nova Press, the choice is yours.

Don’t let studying for the SAT stress you out.  With some hard work on your part, guided by Nova’s SAT Online course, you can master the SAT.  It even comes with a guarantee:  If, after completing the course, you still do not feel sufficiently prepared for the test, you may repeat the course for free – with full access to our instructors.  You can’t go wrong with Nova Press.

 

Originally posted 2012-03-30 20:35:47.

Nova Press Books (though some may have heard of us as “Novum Press”) are the answer to all of your testing needs.  Whether you’re preparing for the ACT or SAT, MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, GRE, or TOEFL, Nova Press has a book geared specifically to preparing for that test.

These books help you learn the format of the test, familiarize you with common mistakes of test-takers, and help you to understand what the test is really testing.  For writing portions, the Nova Press books include rubrics, so you can gauge where you are now.  They provide practice prompts as well as sample responses so you can learn to evaluate others writing as well as your own.

The verbal sections of these tests are looking for many different skills.  Improving reading comprehension and vocabulary are key to success on most of tests.  The Nova Press books guide you through specific strategies for improving reading comprehension and give lists for vocabulary most commonly used on these tests.  Beyond just giving vocabulary and definitions, the Nova Press GRE book looks at the etymology of words, so that if you come across one you don’t know, you have knowledge to draw on to make a logical guess as to the meaning.

Math sections review common mathematical areas that are tested.  These sections in the books give an overview of concepts, followed by a more detailed explanation.  Sample problems are given along with answers and how to get to those answers.  Practice tests are essential to understanding the format of the test and to apply the principles explained in the section.  Whether you need to review all of the math required for the test or just specific topics, Nova Press books have you covered!

Don’t get overwhelmed trying to prepare for the tests whose scores can help to guide your future.  Instead, get prepared with Nova Press books.  With a little guidance from Nova Press and a lot of hard work, you can succeed.

Originally posted 2012-03-29 01:10:45.

The GRE is fast approaching … Or at lot faster than you might think!  However, there’s no need to panic if you’re studying with Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course.  With specific sections dedicated to each of the three main test areas, you can choose what to work on first and how much review you want to do.

The section dedicated to the GRE writing category is comprehensive.  The first subsection focuses on punctuation and grammatical errors that occur commonly.  By reviewing the rules and examples given in this subsection, you can reduce your error rate dramatically.  It will also help you improve your writing for graduate school, where mistakes can be detrimental to your future.  “Punctuation” focuses on the misuse of commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, apostrophes, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences.  The “Usage” section review pronoun usage, subject-verb agreement, misplaced modifies, faulty parallelism, faulty verb tenses, and idiom usage.  These subsections give clear examples of both correct and incorrect usage as well as practice tests to allow you to apply the information reviewed.

The GRE writing section is more than just correct grammar, though.  Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course outlines tools you can use to improve your own writing and steps you can take to prepare for the type of writing required on the test.  This section of the Prep course gives specific suggestions for improving introductions and conclusions as well as how to develop your own writing style.  Whether it’s improving your “transition” vocabulary, learning how to vary your sentence structure, or adding figurative language to your writing, you can find tips here.  Additionally, Nova Press provides writing samples that you can review and critique.

This section also includes rubrics for both the argument analysis essay and the one in which you provide your perspective on an issue.  It gives you suggestions for how to organize your thoughts during pre-writing, key words to look for when trying to determine the meaning of a prompt, sample essays to read along with critiques of those essays, and sample prompts for you to guide your writing practice.

Don’t walk into the test unprepared for the GRE writing section.  Study with Nova Press’s GRE Prep Course, and know what to expect when you walk in on test day.

Originally posted 2012-03-26 20:46:20.