Literature Subject GRE
Did anyone here study for the Lit Subject GRE without buying a bunch of prep books? I'm trying to do some smart-studying by analyzing my incorrect and skipped questions on the practice test, but my studying strategies are this:
- Reviewing trouble areas in the introductions, author notes, historical contexts etc in my different anthologies (Norton, Heath, Broadview)
- Sparknotes (Please don't laugh!) for making my own study guide of major authors, their works, and the characters/places/plot points of those works that will help me with lit. identification.
- Wikipedia (seriously) for helping me to place unfamiliar authors, poets and playwrights-- at least in terms of their era, nationality, social context. (I couldn't tell you anything about Mario Vargas Llosa, even if you had a gun to my head).
- Vade Mecum, or whatever that site is called, for some other general studying.
- Looking over my other textbooks, especially Intro. to theory stuff.
Any words of advice? I just don't have the money to shell out on Kaplan, Princeton etc etc. If my university library had a GRE prep book for the lit subject test I would have nabbed it before this cram session, but my institution is more science and economics than liberal arts. Thus, I am out of luck. I'm just making an easy-to-study notebook of all of my information.
Taking the test on April 4th. I was hoping for more time, but that's the last date I can take it before application time this fall/winter. I wasn't self-disciplined enough to study during this last term, so it is going to be an epic study fest during Spring Break. I tend to do well on this form of test, though, so I'm going into it with a can-do attitude as opposed to icy fear.
Also, will likely be cross-posting this on WGI Lounge. Thanks for the tip on that, guys.