- I am Sakshar Thakkar from BARODA.
Yesterday I had my GRE.
Got 1260 Q-790 V-470.
I am very thankful to the whole community.
Some words which i remember:
Crone, Prudent, Demoniac, Therapeutic, Splentetic, Yield,
Procastinate, Hackneyed
there were 3 RCs of 50,30 n 120 lines.
which took more time.
In quant:
first sum was very easy..
100000*(0.00392)
Then there were 3 to 4 sums from Geometry
DI was bit tough
One sum was on Standard Deviation.
Word problems were also tough
Do the first 10 questions very carefully coz it will decide the range of ur score. If ur first 10 are right ur score would be above 750.
- Nik: Hey guys ..got 1480 ..
800 Q and 680 V
new delhi center ...
Maths was very easy ...finished it 12 mins to spare ...5-6 questions got repeated ...
My advice would be to learn Barron's words ...Sentences were a bit tricky ...get some good practice from Barron's and Kaplan ...
RC were easy if you had time to read all the passage...
MAKE SURE YOU READ RC FULLY AND WITH UNDERSTANDING....
RC was of 80-60-60 lines....
Analogies and antonyms had normal Barron's words and also 2-3 non-barron and non-oct thread words ....
My advice would be to do each question very carefully ...Then its not tough at all ... I got a research section also ...skipped it!!
- Abhishek: Hi all,
I had been a passive user of this communtiy ....and well I gave my GRE on 26 Oct and got a score of 1380(800Q + 580V). Quant was really cool ...u do not need to spend more than 2 hrs preparing fr it..
Regarding verbal my experience was very horrifying.... at first all words were from barrons and sort.... and as far as I know I got the first 9 correct in abt 9 mins then I got a really tough RC based on some "painting philosophy" and the first question had five options each having abt 5 lines each so I spent abt 5 mins just reading those and wasn't able to comprehend any of it and screwed up my 5 mins without any answer .....after that it was just a race against time as i half read the next 2 comprehensions and answered very casually ...just completing my verbal part.
So just an advice PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! do not spend more than 2-3 mins on reading any RC or better read the ques first and then try to answer it from the RC(might not always help)...but please keep an eye on the remaining time...as it is said in the barrons "ur first objective should be to get to the ques which u can answer"
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11 comments:
Hi Sarthak,
I took GRE today (20th NOV). Made 1380 (Q800 + V580). Quant started off very easy but became ultra-tough eventually. Got words out of Barrons' for Verbal.
Your blog was a great help for my preparation. Keep up the good work! :)
Congrats Surendra! Hope u get the university of your choice...
Thanks for commenting and apprecaiting here!!
thank you for your wonderful advises
best regards
http://enggrewords.indiah.org
Hey Sarthak,
just took my GRE a week ago (19th Nov), and wanted to share my experience here as well. First of all: I got 1370 (790Q & 580V). For preparation I used mainly The Princenton Review's "Cracking the GRE" book, which I can recommend to get an overview of the test and some first practice (the book includes 4 online practice tests). The math, however, is way harder in this book than what I've seen anywhere else (including the actual GRE test), especially regarding permutations and combinations.
For more math practice, I also bought Kaplan's "GRE Math Workbook", which includes hundreds of test-type questions and thus helps you to get faster in your answering. For verbal, I can only recommend Kaplan's "GRE Vocabulary Flashcards" - 500 hard words on small handy cards, complete with synonyms and stuff. They're good for practising on the train, bus, tube etc. My actual GRE included many of these words, so it was definitely worth studying them.
Finally: this blog was definitely a place that helped me a lot - thanx! Keep up the good work!
Chris
Hi Chris,
Congrats on your GRE score :)
your quants score is fantastic! I always knew Kaplan Maths workbook is a pretty decent book for quants practice..and have recommended it to lots of guys...but I'm glad you let us know about how effective The Princenton Review's "Cracking the GRE" was in your gre prep.
Kaplan's "GRE Vocabulary Flashcards" has been a bit of a revelation as well. I have been recommending barrons flash cards to people here (there's a download link to the pdf version somewhere on this blog)
I'm sure the other guys hear would have a lot to learn from your experience...and I'm really grateful you shared it with us here.
All the best with university admissions..
Cheers,
Sarthak
I would like to know if anyone knew what the three sums configuration would consist of? I understand the quantitative and verbal parts and there also is the writing part. I took a practice section and scored 1110 (680 quant + 430 Verb)on the online sample exam. The university I would like to enter requires a 1550 Gre (sum of three scores) Does anyone know how this is scored?
Have found an interesting site which offers GRE words meaning, antonym, synonym and sentence usage through SMS. You can check this out at: http://bit.ly/1u7gH8
hey i came across a good set of flash cardswhich i have been using to study for my GRE,thought will share it with you guys.
try http://topgrewordslist.blogspot.com for vocab
Congrats for the scores! Just one curious question. Has any website been of nice use for preparing especially verbal tests? Or do you believe it is just browsing through the wordlists and using them regularly?
Thanks. - http://aptuse.com [improve your vocabulary]
Thanks for sharing your GRE Experiences friends. My Suggestions to my Co-Aspirants,regarding GRE Verbal is to Read and retain 10 to 15 GRE Word List regularly.
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