GRE Course Frequently Asked Questions

The course tuition is $950. This covers all of the course materials, including the fifteen coursebooks and the computer-adaptive diagnostic tests. Students are welcome to write in the coursebooks and may keep all of the materials to study once the course is over. The tuition for the weekend course is $350.

To reserve a spot in one of our GRE courses, you must either pay the tuition in full or make a down payment of at least $100. You can register online for any of our GRE courses. If you choose to make a down payment, you must pay the remainder of the tuition at least one week prior to the first class meeting. TestMasters accepts the following forms of payment: checks, money orders, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover. Please note that TestMasters only accepts personal checks that are received at least ten business days prior to the first class meeting. If you complete your enrollment less than one week before the first class meeting, you will be charged a $50 late registration fee.

If you wish to cancel your enrollment for one of our GRE courses, you must submit a written cancellation request to TestMasters. Your tuition payment is refundable if and only if you notify TestMasters in writing of your intent to withdraw at least ten business days prior to the start date of your specified course. Tuition refunds are processed and either credited or mailed within ten business days.

The materials for the TestMasters GRE Course include fifteen coursebooks, each of which contains a lesson section that the instructor covers in class and a homework section that is based upon the concepts taught in the lesson. The coursebooks incorporate all of the real GRE questions that the Educational Testing Service has released, including all of those in Practicing to Take the GRE General Test, 10th Edition. Students also receive several computer-adaptive GRE diagnostic tests on disc.

If you pay the tuition in full and if TestMasters receives your signed student enrollment agreement at least one week prior to the first class meeting, your course materials will be shipped free of charge approximately one week before the start of the course. Otherwise, you will be charged a $50 late registration fee. Please note that a signature is required for delivery of the shipment.

In lieu of shipment, TM reserves the right to distribute materials at each lesson

Of course. TestMasters instructors arrive thirty minutes before the start of each of the fifteen lessons to answer questions from the previous lesson's homework. Students are also given opportunities to ask questions during the three-hour lesson.

When you enroll in the course, we will send you a confirmation letter that includes your unique user ID number. Once you have received this number, you can visit the members page on our website and register as an online user. Registering will enable you to create your own password. Once you have registered, you can access the Online Resource Center by entering your ID number and password in the member login area, which is located in the upper right-hand corner of the home page.

No. TestMasters GRE students should not study any GRE material until the course begins. We teach proven strategies and techniques that help students significantly improve their test performance in terms of both accuracy and speed. Students who work through GRE questions without first having learned these strategies and techniques are not likely to achieve optimal results.

Definitely not. Previewing the coursebook or attempting to do GRE problems in the coursebook before attending the corresponding lesson is counterproductive for a number of reasons. In each lesson your instructor will introduce and discuss at length important concepts, strategies, and techniques that you must learn to apply to the GRE problems in the coursebook. Students who attempt to do GRE problems without the benefit of this information often develop bad habits and must spend precious time and energy breaking these habits before they are able to apply the proper techniques. In addition, our method of teaching involves challenging students with new material in class. This critical element of the course is lost if you have already worked through the material on your own.

Always make sure that you have something to write with. In addition, you must bring the appropriate coursebook to each of the twenty lessons. It is important not to forget your coursebook because TestMasters instructors usually bring only one or two extra coursebooks for students to borrow. If you are attending the 30-minute question-and-answer session before class, you should also bring the coursebook from the previous lesson.

Yes. If you would like to attend a single class at an alternate location, you may log into the members area of our website and print out a pass, which you must present to the class instructor at the alternate location. If you would like to switch locations permanently, you may do so at no additional charge, as long as the class at the original location and the class at the new location are running on concurrent schedules and there is space available at the new location. If you decide that you would like to transfer from one class to another, please contact us immediately so that we can reserve a space for you at the new location.

Students enrolled in the TestMasters GRE Course may repeat the entire course at any time within three years of the original date of registration for the reduced fee of $475. Students enrolled in the TestMasters Weekend GRE Course may repeat the weekend course at any time within three years of the original date of registration for the reduced fee of $185. Weekend course students cannot enroll in the full-length course for the reduced repeater fee. Similarly, full-length course students cannot enroll in the weekend course for the reduced repeater fee.