Help!! Need to take my GREs for several nursing schools...

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I need some serious help. I am applying to several RN programs that are a BSN to masters 2nd degree track. I have to take my GREs and I am very nervous about it. I took them once without really prepping for it and didnt do well. Does anyone have any tips or study guides that they used that helped? I got 6 months to prepare but everytime I go to a bookstore i get overwhelmed with so many books and guides offered.

~Belle

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Specializes in Anesthesia, CCRN, SRNA.

Try out kaptest.com. It is part of Kaplan.com I am using it to study for my GRE test. If you don't do better than you did on your original GRE test Kaplan will completely refund the cost of the program. I am doing kaptest online and am hoping my real GRE scores will come up. I did a diagnostic GRE and got a total score of 1000. I'm shooting for a 1300.

Good luck!

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Specializes in Maternity, quality.

I bought a Kaplan book that included a CD-ROM for around $30. The CD-ROM included a bunch of instruction that you could work through at your own pace and practice tests (as well as vocabulary "flashcards"). It was a little cheesy in parts (this was a few years ago, it may have improved), but it got the point across. I didn't use the book that it came with much.

A friend of mine signed up for one of the Kaplan classroom classes... she thought it was okay. I'm not sure if it was worth the amount of money she paid for it (I think it was around $1,000), but her score did go up from the first time she took it.

Good luck, you will do fine!

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

i took the kaplan course and the gre some years ago. what i remember was emphasized by kaplan was to start reading the new york times, especially the sunday edition because that is the level of reading that will be on the comprehension section of the test. they recommended we get vocabulary flashcards that were printed commercially. they were the size of business cards and i think there were 1000 cards in 2 boxes. word on the front, definition on the back. over six months you just work you way through them. it was also recommended that we read the etiology section of an unabridged dictionary and become somewhat familiar or at least recognize some word roots as they can often help figure out the definition of a word you don't know. for math, they were very clear that it wasn't as much how much math you know, but that you recognized that there was a short cut you could be using to get the correct answer. time and time again, complex geometry problems were reduced to very simple things when they showed us short cuts to the answers that we might not have thought of. they also recommended working the logic problems that are published monthly by dell and others to get the hang of those nasty things. i actually worked with a nurse that loved working those and always had one of those magazines with her. they were my biggest fear because it took me so long to figure just one problem out.

i had a banker's box of gre study guides published by just about every one of the major college prep companies as well as old gre exams i purchased from gre itself. i just hauled it all over and gave it to my niece a few months ago, otherwise i would have printed out the kaplan study tips for you.

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