GRE for CRNA school

GRE

The website has all the info you need. I used Magoosh to study and found it helpful.

I'm confident I would've done better on the GRE straight out of high school. Having to relearn the math for me was ridiculous. Lots of word problems, geometry, etc.

If you don't have your CCRN get it.

Currently studying for the GRE. So overwhelming the amount of stuff you have to know for this test.. Very nervous to test, my future depends on a good score! [emoji16]

Have you scheduled a test date? Yes it is certainly overwhelming.

Yeah, I have! How about you GaMommy81? Are you taking the GRE? Apply to CRNA school?

I took it last year and I was not satisfied with my score. I am going to take it again soon but I have not scheduled a date yet.

I am just now looking into what the GRE is about and how best to study for it. I'd like to apply to nurse anesthesia programs this fall. I am not terribly worried about the math, but english has always been a struggle for me, despite it being my 1st--and only--language. (unless you consider eye rolls and grunting a language )

My husband just started CRNA school and took the GRE this past spring. He crammed for about 3 weeks, but did really well. If you go on the site for the GRE, they have all kinds of information regarding content, types of questions and examples. GRE books are expensive though, so I'd recommend going to your public library. We got 4-5 different brands of books from ours (plus they can order them from other libraries) and he did questions out of all of them. The only thing he bought was verbal flash cards and probably made it through about 250/500. Its considered high school math and then they changed the vocab section in the past few years so now its more context clues. When I took the GRE in 2010 it was still-random word, give the opposite- I think it is better now that they changed it. Make sure any books you get are from after 2010.

My best advice is to set a date. If you don't, you'll keep putting it off. It's a tough test and even tougher to "study" for. Set a date, it'll motivate you to just get it done!

Just get Magoosh and be done with it, has everything you could possibly need to study for it.

Gotcha! Best of luck!!! I'm really hoping to make my target score my first attempt but its so nerve-wrecking!

All I wanted was > 300, which I got. I pretty much did a magoosh practice test to see what my weaknesses were. Then I read the ETS book (made by the GRE folks) in order to learn how the test is administered and what they're looking for exactly. I studied about half of the Magoosh vocab words and maybe saw only a couple on the test. I didn't practice writing at all, but still received a 5.0 (writing has always been a strength of mine though). I used the basic essay format that I was taught during sophomore year in high school.

Unless you were an English lit major, the verbal section is for the most part a guessing game. It all comes down to the process of elimination and test taking strategies. The best thing you can do to boost your score is study high school math. I mostly read up on math concepts in the ETS book and just read through the rationales of the answers that they give you. I suck at math, but I still scored a 150 just by understanding concepts and not sweating small details. Keep in mind, I SUCKED at math, and was super happy about my score. Most of the quantitative section requires you to either answer a multiple choice question or choose the larger quantity between two equations. This is actually much easier than having to find an exact answer since you can ballpark it.

Like another poster said, just schedule a date. You can always retake the test and use the score select option to send schools whichever score you want.