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Gablar · 2007 July 23rd, 02:48 PM

First of thanks for such a great forum I've been browsing for a couple of days and the information here is top grade. This is my first post.

I will give you some background and then formulate the question.I'm a Computer Science/ pure math double major student, in a small private university in Puerto Rico, which i consider the closest thing you can get to a degree factory. Most courses I've taken so far don't make it half way through the syllabus, because professor need a reasonable amount of students to pass the course so they have to go slow.

I have realized this summer in my internship how behind I am if my goal is a PHD in Computer Science. I'm a incoming Junior but I can only answer some of the discrete math questions and some of the programing questions. I have read many times in this forum the advise of concentrating on answering practice question as the best way to study. Although it seems like a very good advise, I'm having problems doing that because the gaps in my knowledge are so vast that I don't' even know were to begin in most questions.

My question is; Out of all the subjects in the test, where should I start to get good fundamentals? Let me re-phrase that, in what order would you study if you were to build your knowledge in Comp Sci? Anything I should study in parallel? Considering that I won't take the GRE until fall 08, I think I have the time to not only prepare for the GRE, but prepare for grad school.

This is very important to me since I want to go to a very good grad school, and I think considering my undergrad college, I need a good way to prove my knowledge, the GRE subject test is key. Also, I will be volunteering for research in a much bigger school close by to get some of that under my belt, that should help improve my odds.

2007 July 23rd, 02:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Gablar I JUST got here. Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3	Advice on Independent studies First of thanks for such a great forum I've been browsing for a couple of days and the information here is top grade. This is my first post. I will give you some background and then formulate the question.I'm a Computer Science/ pure math double major student, in a small private university in Puerto Rico, which i consider the closest thing you can get to a degree factory. Most courses I've taken so far don't make it half way through the syllabus, because professor need a reasonable amount of students to pass the course so they have to go slow. I have realized this summer in my internship how behind I am if my goal is a PHD in Computer Science. I'm a incoming Junior but I can only answer some of the discrete math questions and some of the programing questions. I have read many times in this forum the advise of concentrating on answering practice question as the best way to study. Although it seems like a very good advise, I'm having problems doing that because the gaps in my knowledge are so vast that I don't' even know were to begin in most questions. My question is; Out of all the subjects in the test, where should I start to get good fundamentals? Let me re-phrase that, in what order would you study if you were to build your knowledge in Comp Sci? Anything I should study in parallel? Considering that I won't take the GRE until fall 08, I think I have the time to not only prepare for the GRE, but prepare for grad school. This is very important to me since I want to go to a very good grad school, and I think considering my undergrad college, I need a good way to prove my knowledge, the GRE subject test is key. Also, I will be volunteering for research in a much bigger school close by to get some of that under my belt, that should help improve my odds.