Princeton Review Cracking the GRE

[laurbethm]

Just wanted to give a shoutout to Princeton Review's "Cracking the GRE." I used their methods to a T on the writing section, and ended up with a 6! According the PR, the number one indicator of a high score is length. I also used their "template" and it clearly worked like a charm. Oh, and just so you know it was PR, I got a 4.5 when I took the

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[circumfession]

*shrugs*

Personally, I think that following the basic outline of ANY decent template (modified to fit your own writing style and the specific question) would work well.

I used a version of Kaplan's template for both writing questions the two times when I took the exam. I modified it both times...and scored 6's across the board. I suspect that the score has a bit more to do with my english background than the magic of following any one testprep system...

(in the interest of full disclosure, I DO teach for Kaplan. That said, I've never been shy about steering my students to other resources when I feel that those are more helpful...and I've shamelessly used Barron and PR's methods when I feel that they are an improvement over my own company's)

As a general rule, ALL of the major testprep companies have similar (and similarly helpful) templates...all of those are aimed for the decent, but not absolutely fabulous writer. The strongest writers should probably study the templates to understand WHY it is organized that way, and see if they can get the same information across through their own organizational methods. If that's too much work, go ahead and use the template as given.