Orion Taraban

GRE Bites

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GRE Bites offers listeners a weekly, relevant, bite-sized episode on GRE prep and grad school admissions. It’s co-hosted by Davis Evans, an educator with over a decade of experience, and Orion Taraban, a licensed psychologist and founder of StellarGRE, the world’s only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. The mission of the podcast is to help listeners ace the GRE and get into the graduate program of their choice.

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Orion Taraban

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Episode 21: How to quickly eliminate vocab-based answer choices on the GRE (verbal section strategies) 30.11.2022 10:48

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Half of any verbal section on the GRE will be comprised of vocab-based questions. However, it will be necessary to move through these problems in less than half the time in o...

Episode 20: How to prepare for the GRE writing section (understanding the grading system) 23.11.2022 13:03

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . As mentioned in a previous episode, your essays on the writing section of the GRE are graded by a computer algorithm, called the e-rater. This is important to appreciate, bec...

Episode 19: How to get a real break during the GRE (taking advantage of the test) 16.11.2022 12:56

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Sitting for the GRE is like sprinting a marathon. The test is nearly four-and-a-half hours long, and students are only given one ten-minute break (and a smattering of one-min...

Episode 18: Don’t clip coupons on the quantitative section of the GRE (shortcuts cost you) 09.11.2022 10:26

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . One of the most common sources of carelessness on the GRE is clipping coupons. This is when students attempt to save a few seconds on their time-to-solution by cutting corner...

Episode 17: Best numbers to plug in on the GRE quantitative section (how to stress the system) 02.11.2022 14:46

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Plugging-in -- the strategy by which we replace abstract algebra with concrete arithmetic on standardized tests -- is one of the most useful techniques on the GRE quant secti...

Episode 16: Is it a good time to go to graduate school? (understanding the economic moment) 26.10.2022 11:42

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . In this episode, Davis and Orion discuss whether it is currently a good time to go to graduate school. The consensus is that it is an excellent time to consider a post-gradua...

Episode 15: You can only get better (why rehearsal matters on the GRE) 19.10.2022 12:53

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . It's impossible to do something over and over again, and get worse at it. The amazing thing about repetition is that it only works one way. However, this is a double-edged sw...

Episode 14: Mindfulness and top performance on the GRE (focus is the mother of excellence) 12.10.2022 14:14

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . More than anything else, the GRE is a test of sustained mindfulness. The only way to achieve a top-percentile score is to completely eliminate carelessness, which demands tha...

Episode 13: Scheduling your GRE test (when is the best time to sit for the exam?) 05.10.2022 13:54

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . There are many considerations that influence the decision of when exactly to sit for the GRE exam. In this episode, Orion discusses several of these considerations, including...

Episode 12: The worst question to ask yourself on the GRE (how you are getting in your own way) 28.09.2022 10:50

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . If you're preparing for the GRE, it's quite likely that you've had the experience of feeling stuck on a certain problem. You don't know how to proceed and may feel the panic...

Episode 11: The two types of grad school (what is your ultimate goal?) 21.09.2022 13:24

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . In this episode, Orion discusses his conceptualization of the two types of graduate schools: those that award degrees that are legally required for certain professions, and e...

Episode 10: Breaking the GRE writing section (there is no man behind the curtain) 14.09.2022 13:01

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . The writing section is the least-discussed of the GRE's three sections, but -- fortunately -- it also happens to be the easiest to master. To do this, students simply need to...

Episode 9: Master GRE test anxiety with a mental trick (certain thoughts are not your friends) 07.09.2022 12:41

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Some degree of anxiety on the day of the test is probably unavoidable; however, if this anxiety is allowed to fluoresce into panic, then even the most well-prepared students...

Episode 8: How to quickly eliminate reading comprehension answer choices on the GRE (mastering the verbal section) 31.08.2022 12:00

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Reading comprehension questions are some of the most difficult and time-consuming questions on the GRE. So any strategies that students can employ to eliminate bad answer cho...

Episode 7: How to stop the bleeding on the quantitative section of the GRE (you’re wasting more time than you think) 24.08.2022 12:49

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Students have an average of a minute and forty-five seconds to answer each question in the quantitative sections of the GRE. To state the obvious: this is not a lot of time....

Episode 6: GRE versus GMAT (which test to take) 17.08.2022 11:12

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Now that every top-ranked MBA program in the country accepts both scores in their application materials, all business school aspirants are forced to decide which of the two o...

Episode 5: Why does the GRE exist at all? (understanding the origins of the test) 10.08.2022 13:13

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . It's been fairly well-established that the GRE is a test that measures itself. That is, GRE scores do not strongly correlate with grad school success or attrition. And, durin...

Episode 4: Best practices to improve efficiency on the GRE (how to move more quickly through the test) 03.08.2022 12:15

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . The time limit is one of the most challenging aspects of the GRE, and too many students resist appropriately incorporating it into their prep. This sets them up for failure....

Episode 3: Accuracy versus efficiency on the GRE (the eternal struggle) 27.07.2022 12:28

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . On the GRE, both accuracy and efficiency are essential to a top-percentile score. However, too much of one always affects the other. If students move too quickly, they end up...

Episode 2: How to reduce carelessness on the GRE (understanding fail-safe behaviors) 20.07.2022 12:32

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . The difference between the student scoring in the 80th percentile and the one scoring in the 90th isn't knowledge or even technique -- but rather the ability of the latter to...

Episode 1: Meet Orion, your GRE expert (a master teacher with a perfect score) 12.07.2022 11:04

Check out StellarGRE: our top-rated self-study program and the world's only empirically-validated GRE test prep system. Use the code "BITES" for 10% off all membership plans. To learn more, go to: https://www.stellargre.com . Welcome to the inaugural episode of GRE Bites! The goal of the podcast is to bring you weekly, bite-sized, relevant discussions on all things pertaining to GRE prep and grad...