1550: 800v, 750q

[Jeanette]

Originally Posted by ruchia

Hey Jeanette,

Did you see any of the new question types - RC, SC or Quant?

Thanks,
Ruchi

On the actual GRE I did not encounter any new question types. I had an identified verbal research section which had many new question types, such as multiple fill in the blanks and "choose all that apply." There was also a SC type where there are two possible correct answers that both mean approximately the same thing.

[ruchia]

Hey.. thanks!

[samarfadl]

hi Jeanette!
congratulationsssssss
this is an excellent score

i wish you all the best keep going Jeanette

[econ_phd_2009]

perfect score in Verbal ! I wish .....

congrats ! best of luck for your admission .

[Bayern]

Congrats!! Thats an awesome score by most standards. I have a couple of questions though... you mentioned normal distribution. I have finished looking through the whole of Barrons, and I do not think I saw explanation of normal distribution or problems related to that... so where did you practice normal distribution, and other stuff which were not in the Barrons? Second question, Barrons has many many pactice problems... do you think doing all of them is worthwhile? Usually I am able to solve most of the problems, so I do not know whether it is worth it to go through all of the problems and instead jump into the model tests. Basically I am wondering how you prepared for the quantitative part.

[Jeanette]

Originally Posted by Bayern

Congrats!! Thats an awesome score by most standards. I have a couple of questions though... you mentioned normal distribution. I have finished looking through the whole of Barrons, and I do not think I saw explanation of normal distribution or problems related to that... so where did you practice normal distribution, and other stuff which were not in the Barrons? Second question, Barrons has many many pactice problems... do you think doing all of them is worthwhile? Usually I am able to solve most of the problems, so I do not know whether it is worth it to go through all of the problems and instead jump into the model tests. Basically I am wondering how you prepared for the quantitative part.

I guess how much time you spend on Barron's depends on how confident you are in your math skills. Personally I went through every single question because I started out feeling weak in math. Also, the more problems you do the more you get used to the style of the questions--barron's were pretty close to the actual test in my experience, especially the Geometry. Speed is very important on the GRE so you want to get used to solving the problems as fast as you can. I say it's worth it to go through all the problems in Barron's unless you really have no time to prepare.

You're right, barron's had nothing on SD or normal distribution. I would not have known it if not for this board. I reviewed the topic from my Intro to Statistics textbook. As it is, I'm not quite sure I got the problem right.

[Bayern]

Thanks for the quick reply Jeanette! Best of luck for grad school admissions

[nsjananee2050]

hey which books did u refer for gre janani

[Jeanette]

Barron's
Kaplan
Princeton
Power Prep
This board

[ruchia]

thanks for the info and good luck for your admissions!!!