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I just took the new GRE exam and am confused as to how good or bad my scores are. The computer gave me an estimate of my scores. I got 270-370 in the verbal section and 360-460 in the math section. Please help me understand how good or bad these are! Thank you in advance.

I recently took the GRE exam and scored low on the verbal section (490) and i received 800 on the quantitative. I have a 4.0 GPA and some teaching and research assistantship experience as an undergrad student. what are my chances of getting into top 10 engineering grad schools ?

I am studying for the GRE exam and need help making a schedule. I have all day to study and need to improve my math skills greatly while brushing up on my vocabulary and verbal section. I have a math workbook and a verbal workbook. I also have vocabulary flashcards and math flash cards. Also, I’ve found some online lessons. Any ideas on how to organize my studying?

I registered for a Kaplan course to help study for the GRE, the class is now over and my scores have not improved, infact, they have only gotten worse. I do not believe there is any possible way to be able to answer the antonyms and and analogies without knowing what the words mean. I know all of the word roots, the top 200 vocab words used on the GRE, and also look out for the "negative/positive" charges of words, but yet my highest score on the verbal section was a 290. I am in desperate need of advice, I will be taking my exam in ten days, and right now, im feeling extremely hopeless.

I got a low score on the GRE in the verbal & writing sectons, but my analytic section score is very good. I’m taking the test again in november. I was wondering if I only solve the writing/verbal section and leave the analytic section, is that ok? I don’t want to do the math again and get a lower score. Please help I searched ETS no info I even asked no response yet. Thank you in advance.

I am going to take part in the GRE exam in three months time.Anyone there with a top socre in math and verbal section?could you recommend me any great book for the exam,there are loads of books out there,I am quite confused.

For verbal section 200 or 300 ridiculously low?which?

and other section?

My previous GRE Score was Verbal(300) and Quantitative(790).
But I am weak in verbal section and read only two Books "504 essential words" and "Barron’s TOEFL essential words"
I have about 83 days up the exam date and need a score about 400~500 in verbal. Can you make a plan for me about sources, schedule and everything?

I need an efficient way to keep in mind that amount of difficult words!

I have also heard that It is better to learn the GRE words in a brief story to keep in mind. But I didn’t find any material containing GRE words passages.

My previous GRE Score was Verbal(300) and Quantitative(790).
But I am weak in verbal section and read only two Books "504 essential words" and "Barron’s TOEFL essential words"
I have about 83 days up the exam date and need a score about 400~500 in verbal. Can you make a plan for me about sources, schedule and everything?

I need an efficient way to keep in mind that amount of difficult words!

I have also heard that It is better to learn the GRE words in a brief story to keep in mind. But I didn’t find any material containing GRE words passages.

I have takne the GRE exam 2 years ago overseas. I had to do the verbal section twice, one whcih will really count for the grade while the other for research purposes for the ETS. Does this happen all the time? Or it was by mistake or something?

Hey everyone. I took the GRE general exam a few months ago and I did poorly on the verbal section, does anyone have any idea tips for the verbal section? I do have a ton of vocab flashcards but learning all of those words will be a near impossible task.

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.

I’m taking the GRE exam on May 7th, and I’m trying to understand the format of the test.

There’s the Writing section (which is always first), then a Math and Verbal section. But is there an experimental section for everyone? Or is that randomized so only a few people end up taking it?

Also, the experimental section wouldn’t be another Writing section, would it?
I can’t imagine writing two MORE essays for another two hours :/

I’m going to take the paper based GRE soon. On the official GRE document its says:

Typical Verbal section: 38 questions per section – 30 minutes per section
Quantitative section: 30 questions per section – 30 minutes

The time for the issue and argument questions are the same as the computer test – 45 and 30 minutes respectively.

Does anyone know why the paper based GRE test is shorter?

Hey I was just wondering if anyone took the Kaplan classroom course and found it helpful for the Verbal Section of the GRE? How much did you score improve etc..?

I want to apply to a Masters in Computer Science in the US. I got 780 in the quantitative section and 460 in the verbal section of GRE. A site that, according to my scores, suggests me universities would be great. Any school suggestion according to my scores will be appreciated too.

Thanks in advance

I’m about to take the GRE’s for GRAD school and I had a couple questions for those of you who have already taken them somewhat recently. What is the Range of possible scores you can get? About how much does it cost to take test (I live in MA)? What is most important to study for Math section? Verbal section?