Jessica Wynn

It goes on and on.

My Bibles.

Yeah, it's fear marketing at its finest.

But students feel pressure to buy four or five different essential books and courses per exam.

And social media makes it worse.

If you're not using what I'm using, are you even studying?

Definitely.

But the problem is they're dense.

We're talking 500 plus pages per book, and you're supposed to work through all three.

There is the online LSAT trainer, which is more streamlined, or Manhattan Prep, which focuses just on strategy.

But students stress about choosing the right test prep.

Yeah, and the prep materials for the GRE are interesting because they try to be this one size fits all.

So they end up not great for anyone specific, but I guess it gets the job done.

Practice tests are what preparing for the GRE is all about.

Because the GRE tests verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning, and the vocab is brutal.

Like, for the GRE, you do need to know lachrymose.

Yeah, yeah, they took them out of the SAT, but the GRE loves them.

So there are whole books dedicated just to GRE vocabulary.

Students make flashcards, they use vocab apps like Magoosh, and they spend months memorizing words they will never use again.

Yeah, the GMATs for Business School, it's kind of its own special hell.