Posts Tagged ‘Gre Preparation’


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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Procrastination is Your Worst Enemy to Getting Into Graduate School!

By on Monday, April 26th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Around September or October is when many universities start publishing the current year’s information on applying to graduate programs. If you are certain about applying to Ph.D. programs, it is a good idea to start soon thereafter to get your application package together. Getting into grad school is likely to be a huge influencing decision on your intended career path. For this reason is a really bad idea to wait until the last minute to start working on your application package.

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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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Conquer the GRE General Exam

By on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 | No Comments

How to Study Effectively for the GRE General Test

Taking the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test is a quintessential part of the graduate school application process. The GRE General Tests measures skills in verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking and analytical writing skills.

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