Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Harshdeep 320 (V-157, Q-163)

gre score: V 157 q 163 awa not recieved.

experience: i underestimated quant section.. it was easy yet time consuming. i missed 3 questions
rc were quite short and easy.. no point in doing long rc because i atleast did not encounter any. .. 

prep details: kaplan 400 and manhattan advanced+essential wordlist.
verbal: manhattan guides 7 and 8, 5 lb book of gre problems.
quant: tactics from barron's gre test prep book and questions from 5 lb book. 

Vavilapalli 302 (V-141, Q-161)

Done with my GRE today ....
I wrote in chennai Prometric near Guindy .. (are there any here who gave exam here)
I got 161 in Quant and 141 in Verbal
Quant was little tough, Verbal is not linked to words learn the strategies ...
If you have difficulty remembering words, i would suggest you to go for just the high frequency words...and learn the strategies well ...
Stay cool during the exam, i panicked on my verbal section and thats the reason for my low score ...

WPME is the book to go for ...if you are not very good at remembering words , go for manhattan high frequency and barrons 333 for verbal ... however it is advisable to learn the strategies well ....if you know the strategy you can get the answer without knowing the word ... For RC i dont think one can easily crack unless they have some reading habits ... RC gor for Manhattan many did well preparing from that...

Shashank 326 (161 V , 165 Q.)

Experience:
1. Issue essay was philosophical, meandered along the topic somehow. Argument essay was a breeze.
2. Got QVQVQ. First two went great. Third the worst: I think it was ungraded since it had one definitely wrong question. Fourth made me sweat and fifth was okayish.
3. Overall, I opine that you can estimate how it feels with PowerPrep. Nothing else comes closer.

Tips: Do Barrons 333. Use those words in sentences of your own. If you have more time, go for Magoosh words. For Quant, pay more attention to statistics.