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Old 2008 November 19th, 02:34 PM   #3 (permalink)
cao1980
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Hey Alissaroot,

I don't want you to throw away all lit that isn't theory, bible, old English or grammar, just saying that the study guides de-emphasized those areas and I felt that the test did not.

Thinking back I'd say that the ETS breakdown saying that literary theory comprised 15-20% of the test was true. That being said, Princeton guaranteed nice big dumbed down chunks (signifier, bourgeois, phallo-whatever) and I didn't really find that, either.

The grammar would not have been overly difficult if a) I were remotely familiar with it and b) it wasn't based on old English (i.e. "find the past participle in this piece from Beowulf" or whatever).

Don't freak out though, the truth is that I could probably have gotten the lit theory with one heavy duty weekend studying it and looking back, I don't think I did as poorly on the Bible as I thought that I did.

You'll do fine! I will probably be retaking the test in April myself so good luck to both of us

And thank you for the call in info.
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