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GRE Preparation Experience

By on Monday, April 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Some people don’t believe in usefulness of studying for any standardized tests. My experience has been completely opposite. I first took GRE without a day of preparation a year after graduating from university. I didn’t really need to score high and thought since I had good grades in school, GRE wouldn’t be that tough. I was wrong and did pretty bad. Five years later I got serious about the grad school, decided to apply to a prestigious university and had to get a very high score on GRE

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GRE Test Preparation

By on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 | No Comments

The GRE is set up to make you fail. After taking it my first time that is exactly how I felt. Preparing for the GRE can be much harder than you think. The most important thing is being prepared for the computerized version. When I first took my GRE Test I did not do very well. I only scored a 950, which was very embarrassing. On the practice tests I easily scored around 730 on the math and around 550 on the English. My actual results were only 590 on math and 360 on English. It was all about time. I felt robbed after the test. For those of you who do not know about the computerized GRE, here are a few facts:

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