over 5 years

Has anyone taken the GRE that can offer any tips from personal experience/study habits maybe not found in online guides?

Would help a lot. Thanks

almost 5 years
I have seen you hunt enough virtual mafia to know your IQ is through the roof. I am an excellent knower-of-people.
almost 5 years

YHWH says

I took my GRE stoned and hungover and got a perfect score.


nani
almost 5 years
I took my GRE stoned and hungover and got a perfect score.

We've played enough EM for me to know you're a smart guy. I think you'll do just fine MisterPresident.
almost 5 years

MisterPresident says

I ended up not getting into any PhD programs that I wanted, but I am still happy because I've accepted an offer at a university to get my Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling :)


can i be your first patient?
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congrats!!!! <3
almost 5 years
I ended up not getting into any PhD programs that I wanted, but I am still happy because I've accepted an offer at a university to get my Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling :)
about 5 years

Peta says

The GRE is famously easy.


the verbal part can be challenging for those whose primary language is not English. Quant is pretty easy, yes
about 5 years
The GRE is famously easy.
about 5 years
Where are you applying? Also, how much did you score? I think you need at least 330 to get into top phd programs.
about 5 years

MisterPresident says



I am least worried about writing, and most worried about the math. I don't know how to effectively study for the verbal reasoning other than briefly expanding m y vocabulary and familiarizing myself with question types.



Symbolic Logic + Linguistics for verbal reasoning; for mathematics just a standard Kaplan course textbook.

Also, make sure you do interview preps; as they generally help reduce anxiety.
about 5 years
I got an interview at my second choice program and it's be conducted tomorrow

Pumped
over 5 years
you're welcome
over 5 years
Forgot I made this thread, but the test went alright and I also just submitted 9 applications to PhD programs

Thx for the help every1 who answered
over 5 years
u should just have an outstanding iq (like me) and you won't have to worry
over 5 years
bump again because I am registering soon
over 5 years
The MCAT has a similar section to that and really there's no way to study for it, you either end up with easy passages that make some blatant sense or you end up with something that is too tricky anyways, so with a long test my only advice for that would be to flag and pass the obviously more difficult passages and save them for later (I believe you can do this in the GRE as well).

Also for any verbal reasoning get all the questions first and get an idea of what you're looking for so you don't actually have to read the entire passage, since like 60% of the passage will probably be some level of fluff.
over 5 years
Thanks Xela.

I am also taking the general GRE but there are 3 sections: verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and writing.

I am least worried about writing, and most worried about the math. I don't know how to effectively study for the verbal reasoning other than briefly expanding m y vocabulary and familiarizing myself with question types.
over 5 years
She said she just did the general GRE test, not a subject test so not sure how that compares but she did the princeton review book actually and studied for the math section the most since that was what she was most worried about, there was no calculus and it was basically the SAT again.

no practice tests were done
over 5 years

xela says

gf studied for it in a week and just did the kaplan gre books I believe, was sufficient


Do you happen to know which section she dedicated most of her time toward studying?

How similar were the Kaplan materials to the actual test she completed?
over 5 years
gf studied for it in a week and just did the kaplan gre books I believe, was sufficient
over 5 years
Bump
over 5 years
skip graduate school