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So I’m taking the GRE exam this year. I’ve already been practicing with books (the Kaplan books seems to be more helpful than the Princeton Review in my opinion). I wanted to know if anyone out there who has already taken the exams and got a good score had any tips on how to be well prepared.Also, is the exam anything like the problems they show you in the books?? I want to make sure so I’m not wasting my time.

I’d love any kind of advice. Thank you!

I have heard about many books like KAPLAN , BARRON’S, PRINCETON and the Official guide from ETS . I am very confused. And I need the best help.

I am already paying for Kaplan’s prep-course…I just want to know some good places/books/resources that can help me with G.R.E. VOCABULARY words…is there anywhere where there have been common vocab words used on the GRE a lot that I can study?

What about certain Math problems? (the part I do the WORST on and seem to never finish in my diagnostics)

Also, in regards to admissions, how important is my GRE score if my school GPA isn’t really good/minemum of the school’s requirement?

And one last thing…can anyone give me some info on the GRE subject-specific (Psychology) test? (I’m taking both the General and the Psych GRE)

I just moved in to LA and I want to apply for GRE preparation course which one do you think is better for such courses kaplan or UCLA extension?

I took a practice GRE general exam given by Princeton Review and Kaplan. Both did not provide any clue as to whether a particular question was asking for synonyms or antonyms.

How many hours did you put into it? I have 6 units over full time as a student (18 units), I work and I’m doing 15hours of volunteer work a week. So I have absolutely NO time to study until school’s out. This gives me only a couple weeks to study for my GRE exam. I’m freaking out. Any advice would help. I don’t have the money to pay for a pricey Kaplan, or Princeton course so it’s all books–so please, unless you feel the course is crucial, don’t try convincing me to take the course. Thanks so much in advance!

Something more methodical like KAPLAN for GRE

I want to go to graduate school, and need to take the GRE. However, I am going to art school now, and there aren’t really any classes to prep me for this test.

I’m using financial aid, and it says that I cannot take classes at two different schools during one semester. However, if I take a course at a place like Kaplan, which preps me for the test, will this cause a problem? It isn’t really taking a class for credits or anything, but it’s a course to prep me for the GRE test.

I am starting to study for the GRE and I came to a problem that I got wrong. The weird thing is that the solution in the Kaplan book does not make an sense…

Problem: The average (arithmetic mean) of A, B, 9, 10, 11, is 10. If A*B=56 and B>A, then A=?
A: 2
B: 5
C: 7
D: 8
E: 11

Solution: Five numbers with an average of 10 have a sum of 5*10=50. Three of the numbers are 9, 10, 11, so the remaining two have a some of 50-(9+10+11)=50-20=30. You are told that AB=56. The only two factors of 56 with a sum of 30 are 2 and 28. Since B>A, A must be 2.

50-30 does not equal 30, so their solution doesn’t make sense. Is there a correct way to solve this problem or is this question completely wrong?

Thanks for the help.

Since my major was not psych I have to take the subject test, some say Kaplan is good others say its not and that the actual test was 100 times harder. So what other products can I use to help me out.

I’m preparing for my DATs. My friend is taking KAPLAN’s GRE prep course, and he says that it is very helpful. My fear is that I pay 00 (Thats how much it costs) and I end up wasting time. They have this "higher score gaurantee" thing where I can retake the course If I feel unready but the truth is, that’s more time out of my life, from my job, from my studies, so I don’t really see it as much of a plus.

SO has anyone had any experience with Major Test Prep Courses (such as SAT, GRE, MCAT ect) and can offer me advice? Should I just stick with buying a prep book and read it or shell out the cash? Mind you, I want to get a very high score.

I will start my 2nd year of college this fall and want to get a headstart for my GRE. I haven’t been taking any math courses and don’t really wish to either. Is it necessary to take algebra and geom. in college to do well on the GRE? How can I prepare for the Quantative section? Also, what classes can I take to prepare me for the verbal and writing section? The problem is I haven’t been taking math and core english courses that can prepare me, so I am a bit nervous and behind my courses. Is whatever I remember from high school enough? Does Kaplan prep work? Thank you for your advice.

If you’ve already taken the GRE and you took the Kaplan and/or Princeton Review courses, which one do you think better prepared you?

im looking to take a course to prep for the general GRE test in my spring semester. i want to take a course during my winter break. i wanted to know which test prep service is better…kaplan or princeton review?

I had written the following essay for a GRE Prep class for Kaplan. Sadly, my English teacher hasn’t evaluated it as yet. Can anyone either with a strong background in teaching for GRE or who has taken the GRE Test give me a proper evaluation? Thanks for your help, in advance.

I love my country: I love my family but I want ‘more’ in life. Explain this statement with details and examples from your life / personal experiences. (30 minutes)

I am a patriot, and I love my country
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
People who understand me
I got no place else to go
– Steven Van Zandt (I am a patriot by Pearl Jam)

The quoted lyrics of this classic song by Pearl Jam have moved me to the core ever since I heard it. It is an unquestionable fact that I love my country dearly. I love India, the country of my birth, my motherland. A land of tremendous opportunities and promises; filled with such highly capable, energetic and intelligent citizens and blessed with such a variety of resources, natural beauty and heritage, that it makes other less fortunate nations accuse God of partiality. I love my nation and so does the Almighty. My family is another thread that ties me to my land. The members of my family, together, build a perfect home. They are my support system. Being a sheltered child and the most pampered in my family, it is hard, for me, to imagine a life without any of them to guide me. Yet, one must grow up and make something of one’s self. I have always been a good student, an obedient daughter and a caring sister but there must be more to life than fulfilling just these roles and I want to live a full life.
My parents have sent me to the best of schools and given me opportunities that most
people can only dream of. I feel I’m duty bound to use them to the fullest and become someone whom they can be proud of. Moreover, I have always felt that one needs to give back an equal amount or more
to their country. My country is as important to me as my family because here is where I was born and took my first steps and it is this place that has been good to me and my family and provided me with every opportunity that I hoped for. In order to do something great and useful to mankind one needs to increase their ambit of knowledge. This can only happen if one travels to distant lands and witnesses the foreign cultures by oneself. I need to view for myself the positives and the negatives of a foreign culture to be able to judge fairly and add something valuable to mine own. To become a successful person one needs to stop being the perennial kupamanduka (the well frog) and mature into the frog that swims the seas. For, in the very words of Dr. Amartya Sen, noted Economist and Nobel Prize Winner, a kupamanduka is a frog that lives its whole life within a well, knows nothing else, and is suspicious of everything outside it. It talks to no one, and argues with no one, on anything. It merely harbors the deepest suspicion of the outside world. The scientific, cultural and economic history of the world would have been very limited had we lived like well- frogs. To rid myself of unreasonable suspicions that hinder my personal growth, I need to travel and experience the different cultures and ethics of people belonging to races other than mine. After all, knowledge is the only thing that increases in amount with sharing among people, that is, the more knowledge one shares, the more one’s personal bank of knowledge increases.
However, this does not mean that as soon as I move out of my country, I shall forget my people and settle down elsewhere permanently. For, whatever I learn from my experiences abroad will be of no use unless I can apply the positive factors of other cultures to mine own in order to rid my nation and culture of its own problems. But, I also understand that it is impossible for me to bring about a holistic improvement in the state of affairs in my country, alone as I’m merely an insignificant individual compared to the billion high population of the entire nation. So, in the end there is a rather selfish reason as well for my desire to return home after gaining experience worldwide. The reason is that the soul longs to return to its roots for as Cicero put it rather succinctly, “There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside.”

I will appreciate any help. Suggestions are most welcome.

Hi, I am taking the GRE in 2 months and need very extensive preparation. I know that many of you would say that taking a course is a waste of money and that it is more beneficial to just buy the books and study myself- but that does not work for me. I am looking for a very intense course which would bring up both my verbal and mathematical ability. I did research online but found so many various GRE prep courses and don’t know which is the better one. I remember from high school that many people did not like Kaplan and Princeton but don’t know if the same applies to their GRE course. How about Test Masters, MLIC, or Power Score? If anyone has any information on any of these courses, or can suggest a course which they felt was good and helped bring their score up I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

I plan to retake the GRE this summer/early fall since it’s been more than 5 years since the last time I did so. I would like to take a college-level course to prepare me for success. Which math class would be the most beneficial and provide me withe most pertinent informatio and skills?

If it helps you to answer the question, I have a Master’s in English and teach English at the community college, so I have the other portons of the test down. My concern is that math has always been a weak point for me and I’d really like to do better this time around than I did five years ago.
I meant to say the Quantitative section on the GRE, not the math subject test.

Also, I teach at the local community college, so price is not a concern. It would actually be significantly less expensive to take a class there than a Kaplan-style prep class.

I’m graduating college on the 20th of Dec., and I’m taking 15 hours of credits, and working 40 hours per week. I just decided to move to a new city a few days after graduation, and I have to apply to the grad school program by Jan 13 in order to start in August. I’m worried about the GRE because I don’t have time to study properly for it. I found this Kaplan online course for 99 bucks, it gives you 28 days to practice/study. Will that work? I looked at a book in the library for the GRE and I missed 9 of the first 12 practice questions. I’m also terrible at math.
I have no minimum score requirement, I just don’t want to look stupid. My GPA is a 3.58, but I’m struggling through this semester and will probably end up with Bs and Cs because of no time to study.

When you take the praxis ll english: Content knowledge, you’ll realize that the test has been advertised as but includes a registration fee as well making it 5 dollars. I’m so sick of ETS, I also took the GRE using study guides from kaplan and princeton review which are misleading and uneffective. The praxis ll study guides for english are worthless because the actual test is based on reading comprehension. ETS is a scam but what can we as students and prospective teachers do about it?

I am on the verge of taking the GRE for the third time this coming December. I just took it today for the second time and I bombed it severely more so than I did the first time. I am currently applying to doctoral programs (one in which I have applied a first time and was denied due to my scores) I have been studying with the Kaplan book, but I cannot afford to take the test prep course. I study fine at home, but when I go to take the test everything blanks and the words become more difficult to read and understand. I then become frustrated. I do not know what to do. All prep courses cost entirely too much, and I greatly desire to enroll in my I/O Psychology programs of choice. Does anyone know of a program that does not heavily weigh GRE scores as this is my only week point?

First of all, I would like the say that according to me (a Chemistry major), the verbal section of the GRE is a horrible way to evaluate what you learned in college or how well you will perform in graduate school. I’ve never seen the word INVECTIVE in my college career, and how would this word help me to do research in chemistry? I’m a bright student with a high GPA (3.87) from a well-respected university in Florida, but I’m really struggling with my verbal skills. Every person has their weaknesses. I just took the GRE and I only scored a 400 on the verbal section, and I believe that this was WITH luck, as I completely guessed on the majority of reading comprehension problems at the end of the section because I was running out of time. Overall, I think my performance on the verbal score should be somewhere in the 300s. I studied for the GRE for a few weeks using the Kaplan book.

On the antonyms and analogies part of the verbal section, they gave me some words that I’ve never seen before in my life. (What the hell is a “DONNYBROOK”?!!!). They expect me to know these words. How am I supposed to know these words? Do they expect me to memorize an entire dictionary? Because I’ll do that if that’s what it will take to get these questions correct. I also struggle with the sentence completions. They said everything I need is given within the sentence. However, I DON’T SEE IT!

The reading part of verbal section is another story. It is very different than reading Chemistry and other books in college. When it comes to some random passage, I’m a TERRIBLE reader, and my reading comprehension is really bad. I’m also not that fast of a reader. I read a random passage and I have no idea what it means. Or I read a passage, I have some idea what it means, but when I chose the answers relating to what I think of the story, it turns out that my chosen answer has nothing to do with the details of the passage. They recommended that I should read high published articles like the Wall Street Journal, but it doesn’t work for me.

Anyways, I’m going to take the GRE again to try to get at least a 500 on the section so that I can get into the Chemistry program I want. This requires me to increase my verbal score by 100 points, maybe more, because remember, I think I got lucky the first time! I hear people getting 500s on the verbal section and they believe that their score is bad. Believe me, I would DREAM for that score.

Do any of you have any suggestions that will definitely help me raise my GRE verbal scores to get the score I want? I’m willing to accept all reasonable solutions. Any study guides, techniques, classes, or other motives will do.

So I took the GRE last week after self-preparing for about a month. I got a 720 on the quantitative and a 440 on the verbal. I think I just choked on the verbal and feel that I could do a bit better; probably closer to a 500. This score is good enough for my master’s program but I really would like to go for my PhD one day and generally a total score of 1200 is desired. My question is; should I take a Kaplan classroom course or just try and do it solo with some GRE prep books etc.?

I was wondering what the best way would be to prepare for the GRE/GMAT? Kaplan offers courses, but I really didn’t want to spend 00 as oppsed to for the study guide.

Any ideas? Has anybody used the study guides exclusively?

All, I am trying to come up with a study plan for the Math GRE subject exam and would like some advice, preferably from those who have already taken it or tutored test takers, on how to prepare for it. I am aiming for as high a score as possible, and I minored in math as an undergrad. I would be especially grateful if anyone could recommend specific textbooks or study guides to work with beyond the Princeton, Kaplan, REA, Rudman, et al., subject test guides.

people whose English is not a natove language. I have to take GRE test i don’t know what is the best way to prepare for it. I bought myslef Kaplan book but i’m not sure if it’s enough. Any oline resources maybe? Thank you all…
Pls advise how you studied if you did?