Prepare for your Graduate School Entrance Exam

• Improve your test score
• Enroll in self-guided classes
• Learn when it’s most convenient for you
• Complete the course within four months

The online Graduate School Test Preparation courses provide a nationally recognized curriculum for the following tests:

• GRE – most widely used for general graduate school
• GMAT – most widely used for MBA and graduate business
• LSAT –law school admissions

Programs Details

The online Graduate School Test Preparation courses are open to the public and are non-credit courses that follow a self-directed, work-at-your-own-pace format. Students access the Web and take an assessment test to help them determine what they need to study and then receive study plans and practice tests.

Western has partnered with Cambridge Educational Services*, nationally recognized in the field of test preparation, to assist you in preparing for your entrance exam.

The emphasis on every course is the Cambridge Six-Step Approach™ to test taking:

• Step 1 – Diagnostic Testing and Assessment Service
• Step 2 – Basic Skill Review
• Step 3 – Problem-Solving, Concepts and Strategies
• Step 4 – Practice Test Reinforcement
• Step 5 – Final Exam, Assessment Report and Review
• Step 6 – Personal Study Plan

Terms of Enrollment
Enrollment will be ongoing but with fixed start dates and four-month completion cycles for each course.

Registration forms received by the end of the month will begin your enrollment during the first week of the following month. Please contact us if an earlier start date is requested.

Refunds
Refunds must be requested in writing by the fourth day of the month your enrollment starts.

Online Format
The online courses are easy to navigate. There is nothing to download or install. All you need to participate is Internet access and an E-mail address. Although there isn’t an interactive instructor, assistance is accessible 24 hours a day via an 800 phone number and E-mail.

Computer Adaptive CD-ROM
The Cambridge Computer-Adaptive CD-ROM helps students increase their test scores through added practice either at home or in a lab setting. The CD-ROM familiarizes students with the timed test format, often preventing crucial mistakes and saving vital time when actually taking the test. The CD-ROM features a tutorial section that includes all pertinent test information. It contains timed computer adaptive practice tests, untimed practice tests and non-adaptive practice with printable score reports to review individual items. The CD-ROM has full explanations for all of its practice tests and strategies for solving the problems more quickly.

CD-ROM is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7.

*Cambridge Educational Services
Founded in 1990, the Cambridge Educational Services goal was to help students achieve test scores that reflected their true potential and ability. More than a decade later, Cambridge has established itself as a world leader in test preparation.

Cambridge’s proven Six-Step ApproachTM has helped more than a million students around the world to reach and retain their potential by achieving high test scores. The combination of Cambridge materials, the Six-Step ApproachTM and qualified TestPrepTM instructors provide the highest-quality of instruction.

Cost

The cost is $265 per course and includes an adaptive CD-Rom, official tests and two assessment reports.

Online Registration
Follow the steps below:

1. Complete the online registration form from this website or by email request one from the Testing Center's office.
2. Fill out the required information section completely.

In-person:
Cashier's Office
Old Main 110

Confidential FAX:
360-788-0854
Credit card payment or purchase orders must accompany faxes.

Mail:
WWU Cashier - Testing Center
Western Washington University
516 High Street, MS 9004
Bellingham WA 98225

Note:  Credit card payments are not accepted over the phone.