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ccook · 09-22-2008, 12:47 PM

Hello All,

I am studying to retake the GRE to improve my verbal score. I am an engineer/web programmer and made a tool i developed into a web application after requests from friends. It has a few nice features, but all of them are centered around one thing: teach me the vocabulary. It will not perform magic such as teaching you the word list in one day, but if you are looking for a good way to attack over 5000 words this will do the trick.

Please feel free to check it out, GRE Vocabulary Training, and let me know what you think. I am always open to feedback! (Especially on what i can do to improve my own score

)

Charles

awatarn · 09-23-2008, 08:00 AM

Interesting site!
I love it.

ccook · 09-23-2008, 12:40 PM

Thank you awatarn! If I can change anything to make it more usable let me know.

Charles

ccook · 09-26-2008, 01:20 AM

I made some major updates to the program. It will now:

-Ask you to complete a sentence.
-Pick a word from the definition
-Pick a definition from the word

Hope this helps, I don't know if you guys tried it but i'm learning a lot from it

neison · 09-30-2008, 04:06 AM

Hey Charles, this thing is COOL! I've been plugging away on it for a while now and it's definitely helping me to remember words.

It looks like the system keeps track of what I already know and puts up new words that I don't?

Thanks for the hard work!

Neison

neison · 09-30-2008, 04:08 AM

oh, also for new users it looks like the url has moved...

Great Vocabulary for GRE and SAT

There's a leaderboard competition going on too

ccook · 09-30-2008, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neison

Hey Charles, this thing is COOL! I've been plugging away on it for a while now and it's definitely helping me to remember words.

It looks like the system keeps track of what I already know and puts up new words that I don't?

Thanks for the hard work!

Neison

Thank you Neison, I'm really glad its helping you and you like it

You are correct, it keeps track of which words you know and dont know. Removing learned words and adding new ones as you use it. When you do finish a list, it will go into review mode, reviewing the words which gave you trouble.

Quote:

Originally Posted by neison

oh, also for new users it looks like the url has moved...

Great Vocabulary for GRE and SAT

There's a leaderboard competition going on too

Correct, I moved it to greatvocab.com to not discourage SAT use

I was also very surprised to see people getting into the 100+ (and even 700+) ranges so fast.

Thanks again!

Charles

pateheo · 10-07-2008, 01:48 PM

Thanks!

neison · 10-09-2008, 07:16 PM

ccook you said you made this program to study, when are you taking the exam?

koolsatti · 10-11-2008, 09:12 PM

Thanks for such a great tool

09-22-2008, 12:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
ccook Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 13	Website to Study Verbal Hello All, I am studying to retake the GRE to improve my verbal score. I am an engineer/web programmer and made a tool i developed into a web application after requests from friends. It has a few nice features, but all of them are centered around one thing: teach me the vocabulary. It will not perform magic such as teaching you the word list in one day, but if you are looking for a good way to attack over 5000 words this will do the trick. Please feel free to check it out, GRE Vocabulary Training, and let me know what you think. I am always open to feedback! (Especially on what i can do to improve my own score ) Charles

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neison Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 9	ccook you said you made this program to study, when are you taking the exam? Last edited by neison : 10-09-2008 at 08:02 PM. Reason: needed to

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09-23-2008, 08:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
awatarn Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 15	Interesting site! I love it.

09-23-2008, 12:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
ccook Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 13	Thank you awatarn! If I can change anything to make it more usable let me know. Charles

09-26-2008, 01:20 AM	#4 (permalink)
ccook Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 13	I made some major updates to the program. It will now: -Ask you to complete a sentence. -Pick a word from the definition -Pick a definition from the word Hope this helps, I don't know if you guys tried it but i'm learning a lot from it

09-30-2008, 04:06 AM	#5 (permalink)
neison Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 9	Hey Charles, this thing is COOL! I've been plugging away on it for a while now and it's definitely helping me to remember words. It looks like the system keeps track of what I already know and puts up new words that I don't? Thanks for the hard work! Neison

09-30-2008, 04:08 AM	#6 (permalink)
neison Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 9	oh, also for new users it looks like the url has moved... Great Vocabulary for GRE and SAT There's a leaderboard competition going on too

10-07-2008, 01:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
pateheo Trying to make mom and pop proud Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 12	Thanks!

10-11-2008, 09:12 PM	#10 (permalink)
koolsatti Eager! Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 39	Thanks for such a great tool

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