Making the grade for post-graduate studies. The Graduate Record Exam is a must for anyone who aspires to post-graduate study, and it creates more general anxiety than anything since the SAT. This guide is the answer to every test- taker's prayers, providing all the tricks (and a sample exam) necessary for you to score big.

Of the 420,000 students who take the GRE, many of them are already taking the CAT (Computer-Adaptive Test) version instead--and that number is growing. Because it can be taken any time of the year, the popularity of the test has increased dramatically. The book contains two adaptive paper-and-pencil exams that mirror the CAT format, and "Cracking the GRE CAT with Sample Tests on CD-ROM" provides four additional electronic sample tests that are exactly like the official ETS CAT tests students will take.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the latest developments in the theory and practice of CAT. It can be used both as a basic reference and a valuable resource on test theory. It covers such topics as item selection and ability estimation, item pool development and maintenance, item calibration and model fit, and testlet-based adaptive testing, as well as the operational aspects of existing large-scale CAT programs.