Grockit Announces Real-Time GRE Test Prep Through Online Social Learning Games. GRE Students Now Have Unlimited Access to Grockit’s Collaborative Online Games.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2, 2009 — Grockit (www.grockit.com), an online social learning game company, announced today the launch of its GRE online test prep and learning game services.  Grockit’s test prep program is an engaging and intelligent way to prepare for the GRE using online collaborative social game play that allows students to benefit from peer-to-peer learning, as well as practice and learn from experts. In addition to the GRE, Grockit also helps students prepare for the SAT, ACT and GMAT.

Beginning with an advanced diagnostic analysis, Grockit for the GRE helps students evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, then allows them to tailor a personalized study plan to eliminate weaknesses and augment strengths. As members of the Grockit learning community, students can choose from or combine three routes of study:

Alone: Students play a game that provides complete diagnostic analysis on the student’s strengths and weaknesses. Grockit then adapts to each individual, feeding questions and study material that optimizes a student’s study time.

With peers: Students practice with other students in live games and study groups. Peers serve as a primary learning resource and knowledge is reinforced when students teach each other what they know.

With experts: Students have access to experts on a range of topics where shared knowledge allows them to hone the areas where they need improvement. Grockit offers students unprecedented transparency and full view into experts’ scores, strengths and weaknesses.

“Collaboration and peer-to-peer learning are the foundations of our online test prep programs,” said Farb Nivi, founder and CEO of Grockit.  “Whether the GREs are being taken by a recent university graduate or an individual looking to expand their education or switch careers, social learning speaks to people of all ages by engaging the learner through an enjoyable study platform.”

Additional community and interactive features of Grockit include:

Points and Leaderboards: Grockit incorporates two point systems, which serve as reputation-like indicators: Experience Points (XP) and Grockit Points (GP). A player earns XP by answering questions correctly and GP by teaching other players in the games.

Performance Statistics: Students can track their performance across different skill areas. Detailed analytics provide students with their strengths and weakness, highlighting where they need to focus their study time.

Diagnostics, Challenges, and Badges: By answering questions in collaborative games, players work towards unlocking certain solo activities. Diagnostics include a fixed set of questions designed to generate an initial assessment of the student’s current ability level. Challenges can be unlocked through subsequent collaborative game-play and are designed to provide students with targeted practice. Students are awarded badges for various accomplishments; for example, when a user answers ten questions in a row correctly they earn the “Hot Streak” badge, while a user that studies with others often receives a “Team Player” badge.

IM/Chat: Students can chat in real-time and collaborate with other students keeping them more engaged.

Students interested in signing up for Grockit for the GRE can visit: http://www.grockit.com/gre

About Grockit
Founded in 2006 with the vision to leverage the social web and to take learning out of the classroom, Grockit offers test prep and learning games that optimize how students study. It offers students a fun way to study and leverages the best of the web. Led by an innovative and expert management team, Grockit is an exciting young company that is poised to change the status quo in test prep and the educational process. Grockit is backed by Benchmark Capital and Integral Capital Partners and angel investors including Reid Hoffman (founder, LinkedIn) and Mark Pincus (founder and CEO, Zynga).