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When building a house, smart people get with an architect long before the first thumb is hammered. Fail to get expert advice and you’re asking for train-track-through-your-balcony headaches!

Taking a GRE prep course is like talking to an architect.  They may cost you some bucks, but not nearly as much as it will cost you if you don’t talk to them. In fact, most GRE courses will return your initial moolah invested, with interest!

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Fourteen-year-old Milo Beckman did some great research to determine that longer SAT essays get higher scores. His finding are backed up by an MIT researcher who has found that length accurately predicts score 90% of the time. BONUS: Milo considered causality. He determined that length is actually what’s causing the higher score. It’s not just that better writers write more! Go Milo!

P.S. Since the GRE is a close cousin to the SAT and the essays are graded in a similar manner, it wouldn’t hurt to write more on the GRE essays as well!

Taking a prep course is really an ideal first step for most students.  If you’ve never built a house before, it would NOT be smart to go out and start pouring concrete and putting up boards on your own for a couple of months, and only then go talk to an architect/builder to find out exactly how to do things.

You normally start by getting with an architect to plan the building and by talking to a builder who knows something about exactly how to procede with each step of the process.  Taking a prep course is like talking to an experienced builder and architect first.  Although their services can come at a premium, they can help you make sure that none of your time and effort is wasted.  In fact, they will more than pay for themselves!

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This resource from gre.org includes “a description of the Analytical Writing section, strategies for each task, directions, scoring information, scoring guides, score level descriptions, a sample test, and scored essay responses with reader commentary.”  Download this pdf.