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GRE (Graduate Record Examination)
The GRE is required for admission to most graduate programs in the U.S (except law, business and medicine). The exam measures verbal, quantitative and analytical writing skills. Many graduate programs base financial aid packages, including fellowships and teaching assistantships, on GRE scores. AEI offers the GRE quantitative and verbal components as combined or separate courses to facilitate the greatest measure of success.
Quantitative Course
The quantitative course includes arithmetic, basic algebra, basic geometry, and elementary statistics. Higher level mathematics such as calculus and trigonometry are not tested. The challenge on these questions, especially for international students, often is a matter of careful reading and avoiding traps by using smart-test strategies. We will teach you how to acquire the skills needed for GRE success.
Verbal Course
The GRE verbal course requires an extensive vocabulary base to successfully complete the non-contextual presented analogies and antonyms. The course is intended for the university-ready students whose English language skills allow them to read critically to answer questions about inferences, premises, assumptions, implications, logic, gaming strategies, conclusions, paradoxes and reasoning. A major goal of this course is to bridge any gap between the English skills that the student has learned and the use of acquired skills to perform well on the GRE.
For further information please see www.gre.org
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GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test)
To matriculate into a graduate business school, the GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test) is a normal requirement. You may take the quantitative and verbal sections together or as separate courses.
Quantitative Course
The Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency sections of the GMAT course cover arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. The materials are fairly straightforward, though careful reading skills and test strategies are needed and will be acquired in this course. Data Sufficiency is a very challenging part of the test and requires the ability to systematically figure out, not an answer, but what information is or is not necessary to solve the problems. The students will be given practice and approach tactics that will help them to succeed.
Verbal Course
The purpose of this course is to prepare the advanced mastery of English for the Graduate Management Admission Test. Students who enroll in this course are usually students who have completed an undergraduate degree and plan to matriculate at a university where the GMAT is required for admission.
Test takers need to know how to use proper grammar and reason critically. In this course students will be equipped with skills to read aggressively and write expressively. Reading comprehension is not a matter of recall but of ability to analyze the passage for its implication, assumption, or inference.
Students are given an overview of the test with particular attention to the Verbal section. The verbal section consists of Sentence Completion, Essay Writing, Critical Reasoning, and Reading Comprehension. The instructor guides the student through the comprehensive text and reviews areas of difficulty. This course will focus on effective test taking strategies for obtaining a high score on the GMAT.
For further information please see www.gmat.org
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LSAT (Law School Admission Test)
The LSAT helps law schools make sound admission decisions by providing a standard measure of acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills that law schools can use as one of several factors in assessing applicants. Prospective law students come from a wide variety of academic backgrounds, ethnic groups, and cultures.
Diversity of experience among applicants both personal and academic - serves to enrich the law school applicant pool and, ultimately, the legal profession. The LSAT is not, of course, the sole factor law schools use to make their admission decisions. It is, however, only common yardstick by which the ability of all prospective law students can be measured fairly.
The LSAT is a half-day standardized test required for admission to all 202 law schools that are members of the Law School Admission Council (LSAT). It provides a standard measure of the acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills that law schools can use as one of several factors in assessing applicants. The test is administered four times a year at hundreds of locations around the world.
The LSAT consists of six sections, including two sections on Logical reasoning, a section on Reading comprehension, a section on Logical Games, an Experimental section and a Writing section. The LSAT course prepares students for the five sections of the exam that are actually graded, with particular emphasis on the Logical reasoning and Logic games sections, the two sections that are unique to the LSAT and that comprise sixty percent of the scored exam. (The Experimental section is unscored). Students develop reading and writing skills through class materials and homework assignments. The course objective is to prepare the students to achieve excellence on the LSAT.
The LSAT course is taught in two eight-week sessions:
LSAT I: Provides an overview to the test, including an introduction to the requirements and strategies of each section of the LSAT. This course also helps students to identify their strengths and weaknesses with regard to each section of the test and to determine effective study methods.
LSAT II: Provides in-depth practice and analysis of each section with an emphasis on correcting weaknesses and building confidence and speed. In addition, LSAT II also focuses on improving writing ability.
For further information please see www.lsat.org
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