GRE Experiences
Real Life Experiences of Students Taking the new GRE.
Wednesday 9 October 2013
Tuesday 8 October 2013
Meghna Verma 321 (Q-162, V-159)
Gave GRE yesterday!
321 (Verbal-159, Quant-162)
Those who are going to give GRE in coming days, a month, this is for them.
The level of quant that comes in exam is much higher than what is in Kaplan MST or Powerprep! I had VQVQV, out of which the difficulty level of verbal was as expected, as it is in the mock tests; it dries out your mind a lot and focus is needed every passing minute!
But, the point where I got disturbed was quant (unexpectedly)! First Q was fine, but as soon as the second started, difficulty level had increased which was expected, but never in all the mock tests I had given, were all the questions so time-consuming coz of which I panicked!
In the 8 tests I gave, I ALWAYS had 5 minutes remaining to check my quant-2 (13-14 for quant 1 which became 7-8 in real GRE)..I marked 4 questions blindly in quant 2 in the real exam!!!!!!! (ugh ugh ugh!)
So guys, if you even have a week left and u r confident abt quant, still give it one day whole for practice! That's my suggestion, the only one for which I have written this post! Don't want any one else to go thru d same!
321 (Verbal-159, Quant-162)
Those who are going to give GRE in coming days, a month, this is for them.
The level of quant that comes in exam is much higher than what is in Kaplan MST or Powerprep! I had VQVQV, out of which the difficulty level of verbal was as expected, as it is in the mock tests; it dries out your mind a lot and focus is needed every passing minute!
But, the point where I got disturbed was quant (unexpectedly)! First Q was fine, but as soon as the second started, difficulty level had increased which was expected, but never in all the mock tests I had given, were all the questions so time-consuming coz of which I panicked!
In the 8 tests I gave, I ALWAYS had 5 minutes remaining to check my quant-2 (13-14 for quant 1 which became 7-8 in real GRE)..I marked 4 questions blindly in quant 2 in the real exam!!!!!!! (ugh ugh ugh!)
So guys, if you even have a week left and u r confident abt quant, still give it one day whole for practice! That's my suggestion, the only one for which I have written this post! Don't want any one else to go thru d same!
Divya 313 (Quant-161, Verbal-152 )
GRE(wrote today): scored 313, quant-161, verbal-152 (QVQVQ)
For Verbal: There were no difficult words. Just learn the barrons 333 high frequency words and learn to use them in context. Understanding the pattern of the question is very important. Try magoosh tricks or princeton review tips for verbal.
i)Verbal TC, SE have multiple triggers(negative, positive, all sorts), and thats were many might go wrong. I would say instead of focussing on learning words, read editorials of newspapers like The Hindu, daily, understand the concept behind what they write and learn the words you come across. Most importantly understand the sentence structure, which one word might negate whole sense of sentence.
ii) Reading editorials pretty much covers RC part too. Practice the techniques for speed reading. Instead of reading lengthy passages, skim through them, come back later when you know where everything approximately is. Lots of practice is the only thing required for RCs.
For quant: I don't know if its really true that the same pattern repeats the whole month. But its better to be mentally prepared for such things. Quant was very tricky(as per my knowledge i made 2-3 wrong , but scored less ). For quant, Review each topic, practice questions involving differnet concepts.
No other tests come close to ets tests. But do take minimum three complete tests to be able to go through the test.
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