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hey ppl! i want to know, what should i do to increase my TOEFL Paper-Based and GRE score? english is my 2nd language. I live in middle-east and im going to need these two certificates for my MA in Computer Science
Thanks for your help

Do grad schools prefer a BS over a BA due to the emphasis on science in a BS degree or are they looked at as the same? I am currently going for a BS in psych but am looking at transferring to another university that only offers a BA. I want to make sure that I am not hurting my chances of being accepted to a graduate school. Of course this is assuming that all things are equal when getting the 2 degrees….ie GPA, scholastic record, letters of recommendation, and GRE scores…Thanks for your help.

I am currently a senior planning on graduating this December, in the US. I have a full load this semester, and I also plan on taking summer classes. Luckily, between when my summer courses end, and the fall semester starts, I have about 3 weeks off (in August). Ideally, I would like to take the test in that time frame.
However, when I check www.ets.org, it says that if I want my scores before Nov 2011, I must take the GRE before Aug 2011. I plan on applying to PT school this fall, and a lot of the deadlines are Oct 15-Dec 15. I don’t want to narrow my possibilities by eliminating those institutions that have an Oct 15 deadline.
Also, I would like to take the written test because the CURRENT computer based test does not allow you to go back and check or change your answers. I understand that the new and improved GRE does allow you to go back and check/change things, but again, I need my results before Nov 2011.

Now for my questions….
It seems as though the only date they have scheduled for the GRE is April 9th 2011. I don’t really want to take the test at this date, because I have a lot of test occurring around this time (I think my professors must be friends socially, and meet up during lunch and decide to schedule their test at the same time…ERRRR!). When or where can I find out the next possible dates? Surely they don’t go all summer without offering the GRE, right?

Next when I started to apply for this test date (in which I stopped after I realized I didn’t know what I was getting into), and I selected, "Written test," it asked me what subject I wanted, (Bio, Chem, Eng, Computer Sci, Math, Physics, Psych.) What the ? I don’t have a major in any of those. I am applying for physical therapy school, and my undergrad major is totally on the opposite end of the spectrum. So how to do determine which to select?

Thanks for your help

I’m taking the GRE fairly soon and I’ve heard that the best way to study for the GRE is to get past exams and find patterns in the questions that they ask, so I was curious to find out if anyone knew of any websites where I could buy them. I have googled but haven’t been lucky! Thanks for your help!

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.

I’m thinking of purchasing a few study guides online to study for the GRE. I’m wondering if it would be alright to purchase older editions of study guides from a few years ago. Were there any changes to the test that would deter me from buying an older edition? How far back can I go?

Thanks for your help.

Hi everyone out there in cyber world,

I live in the UK and am at a UK university for my undergrad degree. Next year I’d like to go to grad school in the US so I gather I need to sit some extra tests to apply for that- the GRE general and the GRE physics tests. Since this concept of extra tests for postgrad study is completely alien to me over here I think I will need to get a couple of study guides for these two tests. I was hoping to sit the tests in mid November since then that should give me a month to get results back and complete applications for the earliest deadlines.

Could anyone advise me on the best study guides to get? There seem to be a few on the internet available. I need something that explains the whole sort of principles of these tests as well as tells me everything I need to know (or at least outlines it in enough detail so that I could then use other books). There isn’t anyone over here who knows anything about these so I can’t just pop along to ask what I need to learn next. If these requirements aren’t all met by one individual book then are the perhaps pairs you’d recommend?

Also, any study/exam tips? How much onus do the universities place on these tests? It would seem strange to me that they would consider them more important than the grades you have been getting during your courses for the last 3/4 years?!

Thanks for your help

I have to take the GRE near the end of November. I have around 5-6 weeks to prepare (I know, not that much time!) My university had been offering free classes for prep but for some strange reason they all ended last week and they don’t seem to be offering a new session. So that plan has been shot and now I need to prepare on my own, which I hate doing. I think I would learn best from doing a CD program (I did this for the ACT and my score was amazing); one with little exercises and progress or whatever. I especially need to have good practice at this math because I tested out of all the required math hours for my major so I haven’t studied math in 4 years. I am great at math, but it is all forumula memorization/practice and I since it has been so long I really need to review this. Any suggestions, anyone know of just such a computer program? Where can they be bought- Barnes and Noble? Best Buy? etc… thanks for your help!!