Firefox add-on for GRE vocabulary building
Vocabulary-building for the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) usually involves a lot of cramming from wordlists in the many GRE training kits. And self-evaluation usually involves taking as many as one can of the hundreds of vocabulary tests both online and offline apart from the full GRE adaptive mock tests.
Now GREedge, a company specialising in delivering GRE coaching through mobiles and PCs, has come up with a software called ‘wordtracker’ which adds a toolbar to the Firefox browser and highlights words as the student browses the Internet.
“Most students do not like ‘mugging’ and we also believe the retention is low if a student just ‘mugs up’ words for the test. Instead, building a vocabulary while doing everyday tasks like surfing the Net makes the learning easier,” says Anand Kannan, managing director, GREedge.
The software highlights the so-called ‘GRE words’ in the page and on mousing over the word, it displays the dictionary meaning, usage, synonyms and antonyms of the word. Occasionally, an ‘evaluation’ pops up asking a simple question relating to the word.
Wordtracker also allows the student to ignore a word in future windows or to mark it as a ‘favourite’.
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