Links
Additional Study Materials for the GRE in Literature
GRE Literature: Test Preparation Sites
Vade Mecum – A comprehensive site, and my personal favorite.
GRE English Literature Study Guide – A well organized site. Incomplete but worth checking out.
GRE Reading List- A reading list of books most likely to appear on the Literature GRE, based on previous tests.
GRE Literature Blog – well organized and comprehensive blog and study guide for the GRE Literature
GRE vocabulary – my vocab links.
hapax legomena – A good site with some pretty comprehensive GRE study notes and flashcards.
Official ETS Website – contains a free practice exam for the GRE in Literature.
Spark Notes – good in a pinch.
GRE General: Test Preparation Sites
GRE Ghost - This site provides links to download free GRE test preparation software and e-books from a wide variety of sources
Number2.com - FREE online test preparation software for the GRE General. Includes vocab building and practice questions for the math and verbal sections.
Audio Book Sites
Eighteenth-Century Audio – Excellent, high quality recordings.
Librivox – Over a thousand free audio books.
Graduate School in the Humanities – Insight and Advice
Thinking about graduate school in English? You may want to check out some of these blogs, which are for the most part by and about academics in the humanities. The ones I’ve selected offer some insight into the academic communities at various career stages (from grad student to disgruntled job seeker and, for the lucky few, happily tenured professor).
Tenured Radical
How the University Works – A cautionary tale
The Chronicle of Higher Education
University Diaries
Bitch Ph.D
Slaves of Academe
Bardiac