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i dont know about your field but far as i know waterloo is very good for comps. Very good placements.

thx suja, it was inspiring to hear that-lets hope that i dont have to take it again, and thx suhrid.

Thx bft I guess ill apply this year and study alongwith it for when i get the time, wont be able to give it for 2 months at least, job pressure.

thx suja, not happy though.

You might want to try this for long passages, when you get a new thought, idea, or a name of a person in the RC, just quickly jot down the line number and an associated annotation on your scrap paper, creating a rudimentary index, I used to do that for those really vague RCs and used to help sometimes. Its easier to go back to something that youve indexed rather than skim through the para again.

Neville, don't worry and just be confident that you'll do well later. You might want to look at your quant scores as the GRE quant isnt easy. I considered myself well prepped for it and ended up getting a 730 as against 800s and 780s in my powerpreps. So from that perspective, maybe you did the right thing by not giving it now. In order to not forget your barrons, get readymade flashcards(if ur in mumbai, youll get a box of big cd flash cards for around 400 bucks) and keep revising your words on a daily basis whenever you are not doing anything worthwile(read travelling or college lectures - if you are a mumbai univ student, college lectures are worthless most of the time anyway). Keep giving big book tests not from the point of view of exam prep, but just for the fun of it, i used to enjoy giving verbal tests. Moreover, for the AWA, id suggest doing some reading on the following 1. Pragmatism v/s idealism 2. Conformity v/s individualism 3. The role of arts in society 4. The duties of a good educator etc... (a more complete list is available in the AWA section of Barrons). Read Newspaper editorials (TOI and ET), Novels(by authors like Ayn Rand) if possible. Feb or March '06 may be a good time for you to give the exam. If ur from MU, then a lot of MU students give their exams around March first week. as it agrees with the exam schedules. Best of luck and dont get depressed or anything, concentrate on your college and your gre. Remember your acads count too ;-), so dont compromise on them.

I purchased readymade flashcards of the barrons wordlists. Since I was short on time, I used to do around 180 words a day, although I would not suggest doing that if you have the time. Used to pick up 60 words in a sitting, split the bundle in half, sort out familiar words from the unfamiliar, learn the familiar, then the unfamiliar, revise twice and then go for the remaining 30 in the same way, and finally revise all 60 words and seprate the flash cards that never got into my head. Worked well for me... Remember, its humanly impossible to know each and every meaning for each and every word, most of the times a general sense of the word is useful enough as in does the word have a negative connotation or a positive one. Write words that you find tough, make your own flash cards for them if you have the time. Revise the words that you do on a day at least once at some point during the day. If you are using the readymade flashcards, don't just look at the word and flip over to see its meaning when you are learning it, flip over and see the sentence and see if you can decipher the meaning, that makes the learning process more active. Do this even while revising. Doing this will give you a firm grasp of the context in which the words are used and will help you in incorporating them in your vocab. Remember to give tests, because even if you dont know all the words(which you never will), you can still do well on your verbal. Its more than just words, even if you know all the words, theres no guarantee that you will have the knack of solving QCs and SCs. Just keep at it and ull do well im sure.

Holden, the Big Book verbal scores are very indicative of where you lie. I always used to get in the 650 - 760 range on big book verbals. However when I started out with CATs, my scores used to be around 610, 620 and so on... after getting used to the nuances of a CAT, i started getting in the same range as that of big book, and my actual verbal score was also in that range. Don't use it for quant however, and always do both the sections in one sitting(i.e. 1 hour) from big book.

Hello everyone, Heres my profile, Id be obliged if someone could enlighten me as to what kind of universities i could get into for M.S. in C.S. gre - 1390(V660/q730 - disapointing) Essay scores awaited. TOEFL - 243 - 300 (Essay scores awaited) B.E. computers from Mumbai Univ - 68.27 % final year 64.4% aggregate of 4 years. Work Ex - would be around 11 months by Aug 2005 with a very reputable multinational software firm. College Extracurriculars - A very long list ranging from music to academics (lots of experience heading IEEE events). Thats about it I guess.

holeinone my essay topic was something to the effect of : "Should students in high school be allowed to take the courses that they want"

Thx Erin and yes my prep time was very short due to employment reasons. Had a very short time in between graduate and the beginning of my job to prep. However, I didn't expect my math to go that bad, Its just that it was a bit too rigorous given the time constraints(as compared to PP and Kaplan), Ive always been good at Math otherwise. Sangfroid, thats what I always believed about the argument essay too, but the one I got was kind of weird and took me by surprise, Normally I can never stop typing on argument essays. Anyway thx for the complement :-)

I would really appreciate some advice, thanx in advance.

Ah well, this is what i got on my REAL GRE too by some weird stroke of fate.

Just back from the nightmare. Total 1390 V:660 Q:730 Well I don't know what to think. I had expected much more. Here are my powerprep scores. Powerprep 1 (2 weeks ago) - Q:730/V:610 Powerprep 2 (5 days ago) - Q 800/V 740 POwerprep 1 (4 days ago) - Q 730/V 720 (Made a stupid mistake in question 2 in the beginning of quant) Powerprep 2 (2 days ago) - Q 780/V 740 As you can see, I underperformed on both quant and verbal. The quant was quite tough, in the sense, many questions required calculations. I think i had just 4 QCs, 2 DIs, and a LOT of word problems. and Zero coordinate geometry problems which I would have loved. I ran out of time in quant and couldnt even see one question despite random guessing the last 2. Can anyone tell me if the score which i was shown was what my final score would ve or if the penalty would be deducted in mthe confirmed report???? Verbal was ok overall, very easy RCs(which i took time on as i was totally flustered after math). There were a few "non barrons" words. AWA This was where i was lucky on one hand and unlucky on the other. I had practiced 4 essays and I couldn;t believe my luck when I was presented one of the topics that I had practised. The argument analysis was quite tough on the other hand. Would anyone please answer my queries which are as follows. 1. Will the penulty obe deducted from this score, or am I shown what my final scores would be, 2. What are the chances of getting accepted in a half-way decent university for M.S. in C.S. with this Math score. Thx everyone for the help regarding essays and for just being a member of this forum. I wish that I had stumbled upon it earlier.

I would say that the answer is two. In order to determine the intersection points, you need to solve the two equations The equation y = x^2-3 can be rearranged as x^2 = y+3. Substituting for X^2 in the equation of the circle, we have, y+3+y^2 = 4 Hence, y^2 + y - 1 = 0. This is a quadratic equation in y and will have 2 roots, which will be the two points of intersection. You can verify that the roots are real by substituting for a,b,c in (-b+sqrt(b^2-4ac))/2a and (-b-sqrt(b^2-4ac))/2a. Just evaluate the sqrt(b^2-4ac) part to be sure that you don't get a negative term under the radical sign, else the root would be imaginary.