There are few things worse than going into a test totally unprepared. This has been the subject of countless nightmares for college students over the years.

While a geology test is a bad thing to take without being prepared, worse yet is the Graduate Record Examinations, better known as the dreaded GRE Test.

But how do you prepare yourself for a test that covers nearly everything you have learned since high school? If you are like me, you cram everything you can back into your head in three days.

It is possible. There are books out there specifically written to help you relearn everything you forgot immediately after you were tested on it.

The problem is getting through those books. As college students we are not used to having set schedules for anything we do. We go to work when we are required to, sometimes we go to class when we have to and everything else we should do gets done when we feel like it.

So to help you get ready for the GRE Test on schedule, here is my three-day guide to regaining all the knowledge you have lost over the years.

Day One: Around noon begin a frantic search for an instructional book on taking the GRE Test.

Start at the local college bookstores, check Wal-Mart, and then prepare yourself by getting gas for your car, because odds are at this point you will need to head to Monroe to find one of these elusive books.

These books will often cost anything from $16 to $30.

After you get home with your purchase, take a break. Enjoy a free evening, because tomorrow the marathon really begins.

Day Two: Allot yourself at least 12 hours to get through the first half of the book. It would probably be a good idea to get up sometime before noon and get to work.

Prep books usually start with the verbal review for the test. This means you will see some of the strangest words in the English language.

Try to put them use. If you decide to order out for lunch or dinner, work in crucial vocabulary words like integral and pulchritudinous.

As in, "Pepperoni is an integral part of my pizza in order for it to be pulchritudinous."

Also, if your parents call later in the day, try out the word antediluvian on them. See if they get the insult

Day Three: This is the crucial day. You will be trying to remember math formulas you may not have thought about since your junior year of high school.

Lock the doors and take your phone off the hook. Today you need no distractions. Don't even bother to shower, because there is no time to waste.

Work your way through the arithmetic, geometry and algebra reviews.

After you're done with those, you are ready for the practice tests. If your book does not include a one, you can always take one online at www.gre.org.

Don't panic. You're almost done.

Day Four: This is the day you've been preparing for. If you can, get a ride with someone to the test center. You can quiz yourself on the way over there. Once you get into the center, with proper identification and confirmation number, of course, you are on your own.

No study guides, no books allowed. But after the test, naturally, you can once again forget everything you relearned.

Michelle Hudgens is a senior journalism major from Pineville and serves as associate managing editor for The Tech Talk.