A How To for the GRE (by flounder)

[flounder]

HI,

Thanks for such a comprehensive guidelines

MOnty

You're most welcome. Hope it helped somewhat

[flounder]

Hi Ali,

Thanks for your detailed reply to my query about GRE essays. It really sounds as if u've mulled over the matter.

Sorry about replying so late but I've been having problems with my net connection due to which I haven't been able to visit the forum.

Oh, sorry for replying so late myself too ... Hope you got admissions at all the places you wanted

[flounder]

hi ali,
thanks for your post...really it is very much helpfull to us who are now starting their preparation for gre.....
i was very confused to select the proper way to take the preparation for gre....
Ali, at this time I have only the book of Barron's guide....may I start with the 350 high frequency wordlist of this book??can you tell me how much time should it take to prepare this 350 words?
waiting for your reply..
Shruti

I guess its too late to make a difference now, but I think you can cover the high frequency words in a week at most, with 50 words per day, assuming ofcourse you have other things to do in the day

[flounder]

Hi shruti

Im giving my GRE in august.want to take it close to application time.

Hope it went all, and that your applications went great! :-)

[flounder]

hi ali..
loved your post mate. gr8 work. hope I can put some to use..
have a couple o queries though.
1) I have about 5 weks to go for my GRE and i'm still in the 500's in verb.
got any suggestions on how to get that score up? i'm breaking my head over the barrons wordlist. how useful is the high freq list?
2) how important is probability in quant?
loking frwd to your reply.

Hehe, well from what I remember, you would typically get at most 1-2 questions on probability but in most likelihood none. However probability in grad school is a whole different thing. If you are in CS/EE etc, you'd probably eat, drink, and gargle in probability

[flounder]

Hi Ali,
congrats on you r terrific performance .I also would like to appreciate your taking out time( and your patience) to write out that eloquent post on taking the GRE.I think it is a great eye opener for the rest of us future GREites out there.
All the best for your goals.
Regards
jyothi

Hi Jyothi,

Sorry for the rather late reply. I am blaming my advisor for that ... Anyway, thanks for your wishes. I hope your GRE went fine

Please call me moz

[flounder]

hello,i am new here.I am in big trouble with GRE.I dont know what to do,where to start from.I am reeeading barrons wordlist only,is it sufficient?[8)]i have questions ...1.how to start GRE.2.how to take preparations for quantitative part?3.i want to give GRE after 3months,is it adequate?anybody with[heartbeat]please help me.i give TOEFL recently ,and the range is223-277.Feeling like that this is end of the worldhheeeelllpppp

But the world didn't end. Hope you did fine

[flounder]

Thanks a lot Ali....

You know im a starter for GRE and was terribly bogged down by the abstract websites provided by the net....

All ending iwth a tag of 25 $ or so....

Yours was the most cool guidance i got till now....

I even took a printout of ur advice....

Thanks a lot man

Hey Can u also tell me how to find out the right kinda university for me....

I mean i went to usnews.com and got the list....

I also went to the websites of some of the colleges....

Can u tell me some site where i can get the finances worked out....

Also plz gimme sum idea regardin the financial aid and how much can i get....

As i told u.... since im new to it.... i dont have much idea about things....

So id be grateful if u cud help me out....

Hi Forrest Gump (which is one of my favorite movies btw ) but anyway, thanks for your wishes and feedback. I really appreciate it. Sorry for the late reply.

Some advice in general for everyone. Well the first thing you should figure out is what makes you tick. I know its easier said than done, but graduate school is a LOT of work, and I can't put more emphasis on that. If you are in the Ph.D program, thats like 5-6 years of sleepless nights, advisor grumbles, research roadblocks and what not. I do not wish to scare anyone off, but the point is that its easy to get boggled down by the scale of things. So first figure out what makes you tick. If you feel research is your calling, go for it. It might turn out to be rewarding. That brings us to a related question: what is it that you are looking for in your graduate school experience. Do you want to take the financial pressure and potential rewards of going to a top school? Its a catch-22 situation. The better school you apply to, the more the chances of getting financial assistance. Public universities like Berkeley, UIUC, UW Madison etc generally have more assistantships at Masters level but more people applying for them. For engineering majors, some options you have involve looking for teaching assistantships, research assistantships, the latter both with professors or in semi-independent research labs that universities have.

[flounder]

great work man
but what u suggest if one has only a month to prepare

How it go with you, with one month? Maybe you have better insight now?

[flounder]

hi ali

cool msg dude
u researched a lot, i should have known this site few months ago, well i know about 2000+ words and have to start with maths, im facing few probs in analogies and sentence completion, any tips or any panacea reg the matter

anyways
ur msg was really awesome

ankush

Thanks Ankush