Thursday 5 September 2013

Pavan Kumar Silla 320(Q : 163, V : 157)

My GRE experience :
GRE score : 320 (Q-163 V-157) gave my GRE yesterday : VQVQV

Firstly, AWA is all about writing the tasks in 30 mins... follow a standard format and practice writing issue and argument tasks. ( I wont suggest more since my AWA score is not yet out)

Secondly, Verbal needs you to learn words. There were not many esoteric words. I learnt the wordlists in majortests.com. RCs is all about managing time, try to give minimum of 17 mins for RCs, you can answer every question of RCs if you have time after reading two or more times but ifyou are a good reader, not a big problem.
SE/TC : knowing the meaning of the word is 60% significant and understanding the complexity of sentence is 40% according to me. I knew the meanings of all most words and luckily i never had the case of two words having very subltle meaning.. all words meant different and if you understand the context of the sentence, you would have no problem in answering the TC/SE. SE : most of the answers i got were synonyms, so trying to read words in groups of synonyms would be beneficial.

Thirdly, Quant is all about solving the questions within the given timeframe. DI is important as you can score 6 marks at a go. Most of the DI questions were linked up with percentages. Statistics and Geometry are also important. Infact, everything is important. Questions were not that trickey but lengthy. Just practice doing 20 questions is 30 mins a 5 mins to check the ones you have a doubt in. Whenever you have a doubt in a question, mark some answer and then proceed to another as you have 1/4th probability that you get the answer right.

Finally, give as many practice tests as you can. Give Powerprep1 one week before your Gre and powerprep2 two days prior. Don't forget to review after you're sone with the test. GRE scores will be very close to your powerprep scores. My PP1: 318 (Q-166 V-152) PP2 : 314 (Q-164 V-150)
Take the Kaplan practice tests using the crack given in the group. Write your last three tests with AWA. Take Manhattan and Princeton review free tests.

 

1 comment:

  1. Yup..Great.. Take frequent Online GRE Practice Test to improve your speed as well as to check your abilities.All the Best Aspirants.

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