After the Exam - Get the Right College

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GRE Experiences

Hii friends. I am posting below the actual gre experiences of people - which they have put down in the gre community on orkut.

• 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"

These were the GRE experiences of 3 different people with different levels of thinking and difficulties to give u fair idea of how it can be.

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If you have any comments, suggestions regarding GRE preparation you may please go ahead and comment. Don't forget to check out the gre tutorials on the verbal ability and AWA sections on this blog.

GRE Prep Materials - latest additions

Hi. Hope your gre test prep is going well. For those who cannot afford gre prep classes due to lack of money or time, online gre prep is the best option! Of course, a gre prep course is always recommneded because we tend to study better in a group...alone can be boring!

But why to waste money when you have blogs like mine for free gre test prep !

Below are the latest useful downloads for the GRE preparation:

• Barrons GRE Flash Cards (pdf,842kb) : Barron's flash cards for GRE is one of the best resources for learning up the barrons gre wordlist...

• GRE Maths Revesion by ETS (pdf,1mb) : GRE Maths revision guide by ETS is a nice quickfire aid to revsising the gre quant section just...

• Peterson's Writing Skills for GRE & GMAT (pdf,7mb) : This book was my bible for writing the Issue and Argument essays on the GRE test. I scored 5.0 (out of 6.0)...

• Antonym Software (rar) : a handy tool for gre verbal preparation, of which antonyms are a formidable part...

For vocab enhancing softwares (wordhacker, vocaboly etc) already posted on this blog, please scroll down or click here.

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