It is a computer based test required for post-graduate degree in all fields e.g. MS, PhD. This is one of the most recognized tests for admission in US universities. GRE is also accepted by some prestigious business schools in America. It is accepted by all US universities and many leading institutions across the globe.

1. GRE®
REVISED GENERAL TEST
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3. GRE – 5 STAR PROGRAM
 Admission Strategy for Top Universities
 like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Kelloggs, University of California, University of Cambridge,
Oxford University.
 Admission & Application Assistance –
 Short listing of Universities, SOP, LOR
 Assistance for Scholarship, Education Loan
 Visa process guidance, FOREX, Travel & Accommodation in Foreign Country
 Strategy for High GRE Score – 10 Stage Program
 Intensive Classroom Coaching for AWA, Verbal Reasoning, & Quantitative Reasoning
 Practice from various GRE Prep Books
 Freshly Designed Study Material & 20 Online Tests
 Batches
 Available in Group and 1-on-1 Personalized Coaching
 Flexible Batch timings on weekends and weekdays
 Multiple entry points in batches
 TOEFL Coaching Included!!! 3

4. NEW GRE TEST STRUCTURE
Item Scores Questions Duration
Analytical
Writing
Score Range
0 to 6
2 Essays
(Issue Based &
Argument Based)
30 Minutes per
Essay
Total 60 Minutes
Quantitative
Reasoning
Score Range
130 to 170
2 Sections
20 questions / section
30 minutes per
section,
Total 60 Minutes
Verbal
Reasoning
Score Range
130 to 170
2 Sections
20 questions / section
30 minutes per
section,
Total 60 Minutes
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Total Test Duration – 3 hours

5. ADVANTAGES OF
GRE® REVISED TEST
 Ability to change answers within the section
 Save tough questions for last (within the same section)
 Use of On-screen Calculator
 Antonyms & Analogies have been removed from the test
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GRE® scores will continue to remain valid for 5 years

6. UNIQUE BENEFITS FROM WESTERN
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20 Online
Tests,
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7. 10 STAGE PROGRAM TO ACHIEVE A HIGH SCORE IN
THE GRE®
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8. 10 STAGE PROGRAM
Stage 1 –
Mock GRE
Test
Stage 2 –
Intensive
Classroom
Coaching
Stage 3 –
Practice Tasks
Stage 4 –
Test Series – 5
Online Tests !!!
Stage 5 -
Identification of
Gray Areas &
R.C.A.
Stage 6 –
Increased level
of difficulty in
Questions
Stage 7 –
Test Series
Continued
Stage 8 –
Admission &
Application
Assistance
Stage 9 –
Scholarship
Assistance
Stage 10 –
Assistance in
Visa, Travel &
Accomodation
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* RCA – Root Cause Analysis

9. STAGE 1
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10. MOCK GRE TEST
 Mock GRE test is conducted –
 to gauge the current level of the student,
 analyze his/her strengths and areas of development and
 focus on the areas of development with customized time table
to achieve high score!
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Student does not need to prepare for this test in advance!!!

11. STAGE 2
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12. INTENSIVE CLASSROOM COACHING
Intensive Classroom Coaching through concept
based classes teaches the students:
 short cut methods
 advance calculation techniques
 tips, tricks, strategies
to improve on SPEED & ACCURACY!
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13. ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT
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14. ANALYTICAL WRITING
 The Analytical Writing measure consists of two
separately timed analytical writing tasks:
 Analyze an Issue task
 Analyze an Argument task
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15. STRATEGIES FOR ISSUE BASED ESSAY
WRITING
How to:
• Read the ‘issue based question’ carefully
• Draw assumptions
• Position your stand
• Support your own views on the issue (Importance of giving examples and
 how many examples ideally should be written for practice)
• Present your stand (We discuss what points should be jotted down on which you
are going to write)
• Frame of your response ( How many paragraphs ideally we should write and
what content should be included in each paragraphs.
• Divide and Manage the time for each and every step
• Gain good command on language
• Follow a logical flow of ideas, and write in simple and complex sentences.
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16. STRATEGIES FOR ARGUMENT BASED
ESSAY WRITING
 First 7-8 minute should be spent on planning about the topic.
 We discuss what points should be jotted down on the topic that you are going to write and
how you are going to present them
 Secondly, after reading the question what assumptions can be drawn and what alternative
explanations can be given.
 How to choose the best examples and how to present them.
 What examples and counterexamples can be taken into consideration, and what additional
evidences might prove useful in fully and fairly evaluating the reasoning.
 We discuss and write jointly with the students some sample arguments.
 We give thorough feedback to students on written arguments.
 What kinds of sentence we should write and how to present them in the right manner.
 How to quickly review the writing assessments.
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17. VERBAL REASONING
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18. VERBAL REASONING
The GRE Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE®
revised General Test contains three types of
questions:
 Reading Comprehension – More focus on Reading
the New GRE!
 Text Completion
 Sentence Equivalence
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19. READING COMPREHENSION
NEW QUESTION TYPES
 Multiple Choice Questions – Select One Answer
These are traditional multiple-choice questions with five answer choices, of
which you must select one
 Multiple Choice Questions – Select One or More Answer
These questions provide three answer choices and ask you to select all that are
correct; one, two or all three of the answer choices may be correct. To gain credit
for these questions, you must select all the correct answers, and only those;
there is no credit for partially correct answers.
 Select-in-Passage
These questions ask you to click on the sentence in the passage that meets a
certain description. To answer the question, choose one of the sentences and
click on it; clicking anywhere on a sentence will highlight it. In longer passages,
the question will usually apply to only one or two specified paragraphs,
marked by an arrow ( ); clicking on a sentence elsewhere in the passage will not
highlight it.
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20. READING COMPREHENSION
 Strategies to excel in the Reading Comprehension
 First, we discuss the difficult words list and its meanings, which generally come in questions
in RC. For example Analytical, Descriptive, Hyperbolic, Critical, Reproachful, Facetious,
Equivocal, Circular, Unwarranted.
 We discuss all important question types like Main idea and Prime purpose of the passage,
Descriptive Questions, Extension Questions, Inference type of questions, Explicit detail
question, Application Questions, Tone Question , Writing Technique Questions.
 While reading the passage we also discuss that how to understand Compare and contrast
two positions, Show cause and effect, State a position and then give supporting evidence.
 Importance of pivotal words like but, however, although, yet, despite, nevertheless,
nonetheless, except, In contrast, even though.
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21. READING COMPREHENSION
 How to make gist of each paragraph and get to the central idea of passage and how to
convert in a tree diagram.
 How to find out author’s purpose and structure; and the author’s voice/tone in the passage.
 Understand words and statements and increase your ability to interpret special meaning of
terms that are used,
 We will make you perfect in determining the strong and weak points of an argument or
evaluate the relative importance of arguments and ideas in a passage so that you can
easily understand logical relationships between points and concepts.
 We will make your perfect in drawing inferences from facts and statements question as well
 How to eliminate answer choices and reach to the correct answers.
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22. TEXT COMPLETION
 New Text Completion questions test your ability to interpret, evaluate
and reason from what you've read.
 Text Completion questions test this ability by omitting crucial words from
short passages, requiring you to fill them in by selecting words or
phrases.
 Strategies to crack the new “Text Completion” Section
• Read the entire passage carefully
• Identify the gaps between two sentences, two paragraphs or between two ideas
that are being conveyed
• Read two lines before and after the missing sentence / missing words
• Then correctly position the missing words or statements
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23. SENTENCE EQUIVALENCE
 New Sentence Equivalence questions tests your ability to reach a conclusion, about how a sentence
should be completed while focusing on the meaning of the whole sentence.
 Sentence Equivalence questions consist of a single sentence, one blank, and six answer choices. These
questions require you to select two of the answer choices. You receive no credit for partially correct
answers.
 Strategies to excel in the new “Sentence Equivalence” section
 You will have to Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning
of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
 Look for similar meaning words. For example - (slight & modest) or (original and innovative) the vs. other
3 options that sound more negative / opposite.
 Pay close attention to adverbs or adjectives just before the blanks (missing words)
 Do not change the meaning of the sentence
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24. QUANTITATIVE REASONING
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25. QUANTITATIVE REASONING
 Quantitative Comparison Questions
 Multiple-choice Questions — Select One Answer
Choice
 Multiple-choice Questions — Select One or More
Answer Choices
 Numeric Entry Questions
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26. QUANTITATIVE REASONING
 The skills, concepts and abilities are tested in the four content areas below:
 Arithmetic topics include properties and types of integers, such as divisibility,
factorization, prime numbers, remainders and odd and even integers; arithmetic
operations, exponents and radicals; and concepts such as estimation, percent,
ratio, rate, absolute value, the number line, decimal representation and
sequences of numbers.
 Algebra topics include operations with exponents; factoring and simplifying
algebraic expressions; relations, functions, equations and inequalities; solving
linear and quadratic equations and inequalities; solving simultaneous equations
and inequalities; setting up equations to solve word problems; and coordinate
geometry, including slopes and intercepts of lines and graphs of functions,
equations and inequalities.
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27. QUANTITATIVE REASONING
 Geometry topics include parallel and perpendicular lines, circles,
triangles — including isosceles, equilateral and 30°-60°-90° triangles —
quadrilaterals, other polygons, congruent and similar figures, three-
dimensional figures, area, perimeter, volume, the Pythagorean theorem
and angle measurement in degrees. The ability to construct proofs is
not tested.
 Data analysis topics include basic descriptive statistics, such as mean,
median, mode, range, standard deviation, interquartile range, quartiles
and percentiles; interpretation of data in tables and graphs, such as line
graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, boxplots, scatterplots and frequency
distributions; elementary probability, such as probabilities of compound
events and independent events; random variables and probability
distributions, including normal distributions; and counting methods, such
as combinations, permutations and Venn diagrams.
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28. STRATEGIES FOR QUANTITATIVE
COMPARISON
 Questions of this type ask you to compare two quantities – Quantity A and
Quantity B – and then determine which of the following statements describes the
comparison:
 Quantity A is greater.
 Quantity B is greater.
 The two quantities are equal.
 The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
 6-Step Method for QC :
-- Compare, don’t calculate
-- Compare piece by piece
-- Make one column look like the other
-- Do the same thing to both columns
-- Pick Numbers
-- Redraw the diagrams
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29. STRATEGIES FOR
“1 ANSWER CHOICE” TYPE OF
QUESTIONS
 Strategies to beat the Multiple Choice – Select 1 Choice
type of questions
 Use the fact that the answer is there.
 If your answer is not one of the five answer choices given, you
should assume that your answer is incorrect and do the following:
 Reread the question carefully – you may have missed an important
detail or misinterpreted some information.
 Check your computations – you may have made a mistake, such as
mis-keying a number on the calculator.
 Re-evaluate your solution method – you may have a flaw in your
reasoning.
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30. STRATEGIES FOR
“1 ANSWER CHOICE” TYPE OF
QUESTIONS
 Examine the answer choices.
 In some questions you are asked explicitly which of the choices has a certain property.
You may have to consider each choice separately or you may be able to see a
relationship between the choices that will help you find the answer more quickly.
 In other questions, it may be helpful to work backward from the choices, say, by
substituting the choices in an equation or inequality to see which one works.
 However, be careful, as that method may take more time than using reasoning.
 For questions that require approximations, scan the answer choices to see
how close an approximation is needed.
 In other questions, too, it may be helpful to scan the choices briefly before solving the
problem to get a better sense of what the question is asking. If computations are
involved in the solution, it may be necessary to carry out all computations exactly and
round only your final answer in order to get the required degree of accuracy.
 In other questions, you may find that estimation is sufficient and will help you avoid
spending time on long computations.
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31. STRATEGIES FOR
NEW “1 OR MORE ANSWER” TYPE
 Strategies to master the new “1 or More Answer” type of Questions
 Note whether you are asked to indicate a specific number of answer
choices or all choices that apply. In the latter case, be sure to consider all of
the choices, determine which ones are correct, and select all of those and only
those choices. Note that there may be only one correct choice.
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 In some questions that involve inequalities that limit the possible values of
the answer choices, it may be efficient to determine the least and/or the
greatest possible value. Knowing the least and/or greatest possible value may
enable you to quickly determine all of the choices that are correct.
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 Avoid lengthy calculations by recognizing and continuing numerical
patterns.
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32. STRATEGIES FOR
NEW NUMERIC ENTRY TYPE OF
QUESTIONS
 Questions of this type ask you either to enter your answer as an integer or a decimal in a single answer
box or to enter it as a fraction in two separate boxes — one for the numerator and one for the
denominator.
 Make sure you answer the question that is asked.
 Since there are no answer choices to guide you, read the question carefully and make sure you provide
the type of answer required.
 Sometimes there will be labels before or after the answer box to indicate the appropriate type of answer.
 Pay special attention to units such as feet or miles, to orders of magnitude such as millions or billions, and
to presents as compared with decimals.
 If you are asked to round your answer, make sure you round to the required degree of accuracy.
 For example, if an answer of 46.7 is to be rounded to the nearest integer, you need to enter the number
47.
 If your solution strategy involves intermediate computations, you should carry out all computations exactly
and round only your final answer in order to get the required degree of accuracy. If no rounding
instructions are given, enter the exact answer.
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Examine your answer to see if it is reasonable with respect to the information
given. You may want to use estimation or another solution path to double-check your
answer.

33. GRE – CLASS TIME TABLE
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34. STAGE 3
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35. PRACTICE TASKS
 From various GRE prep books
 Skill Builder & Base Builder
 Princeton
 Kaplan
 Barron’s
 GRE Big Book
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36. STAGE 4
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37. TEST SERIES
 A series of 5 tests are undertaken to track the
progress.
 Comparative review of the previous test with the
current ones gauges to understand where the
progress has been made and the area to be
improved.
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TOTAL of 20 Online Tests are included in the GRE Curriculum

38. STAGE 5
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39. RESOLVING GRAY AREAS
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Test Review,
Analysis with
Faculty & Student
Services Exec
• Structured
Feedback
Root Cause
Analysis
• Concepts Not
Clear or Time
Management
Action Plan (Next
Steps)
•Additional Coaching /
Practice
•Repetition of topics
•Guidance on Time &
Stress Management
•Speed tests with
Accuracy check

40. STAGE 6
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41. INCREASED LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY
 Questions from
 IIT-JEE
 LSAT
 Tougher questions prepared by experts from Western
Academy will be solved.
 This is will augment your speed & accuracy and help
you solve GRE questions with further ease & increased
confidence!
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42. STAGE 7
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43. 15 MOCK TESTS & PRACTICE
 Continue with balance 15 tests, review, feedback
and resolving of new grey areas if any.

 Appearing for 15 Mock tests would boost your
morale and instill confidence for the finale.
Practice makes Man Perfect!!!
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44. STAGE 8
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45. ADMISSION & APPLICATION ASSISTANCE
 Short listing Universities - Our experts provide assistance
to help you short list Universities that would best suit your
 Academic and/or Professional goals,
 Personal Profile, and
 Financial Parameters.
 Targeting top 20 universities in the world like Harvard,
Stanford, MIT , Cambridge, Oxford etc.
 In addition to the above we will also assist you with SOP, LOR
and the complete University Application process
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46. ADMISSION & APPLICATION ASSISTANCE
 Special attention is given to your application to each
university
 Your application will be reviewed by the students who are
already studying that particular course in that particular
university
 With the wealth of knowledge & experience our experts
have, we save you time & money, to map you to the right
university, for you after carefully reviewing your profile.
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47. STAGE 9
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48. SCHOLARSHIP GUIDANCE
 Scholarships & Financial aid fee waivers are awarded to
international students on the basis of the academic merit and
to those who need it.
 Candidate with
 strong academics, including GRE and TOEFL Scores
 good performance on standardized exams &
 extra-curricular achievements
 strong application package
would be eligible for scholarship awards & financial
assistance.
 Scholarship is awarded at the discretion of the Scholarship
Committee of that institution.
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49. STAGE 10
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50. FURTHER ASSISTANCE
 Education Loan Guidance
 Visa Application
 Travel & Student Insurance
 FOREX
 Accommodation arrangements
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51. COURSE DURATION & FEES
 GRE Course Duration: 2 – 3 Months
 Course fees –
 15000 for Group Coaching
 25000 for 1-on-1 personalized coaching
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52. THANK YOU!