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Yeah I would try to retake the GRE again to get the verbal up. I took the GRE a long time ago and got a 370 on the verbal. Then I started practicing like crazy with old big book tests, Kaplans Verbal Workbook, reading hard essays and studying vocab words with prosigner. You can find most of these things in the forums here. Also, going through the PP is good verbal practice. I eventually got my real GRE verbal score to a 570. But with more practice, I could have done better. So don't give up! It can be done, even in as little as 1-2 months.

I thought the GRE big book verbal was very good practice for the GRE verbal section. The power prep would be also a good choice because obviously they are both from ETS. If you take the power prep a lot of times, it will give you a lot of practice problems because its like the real GRE in that it is adaptive to you. I would recommend both. The more practice, the better. Barrons has a good math practice synopsis, but if you want to have standard deviation review, usually I just looked it up on the internet. There are GRE sites out there that teach you how to do st. dev. and that other stuff.... www.purplemath.com and a west tamu site http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/gre/math_help.htm Anyway, if you can't find it there, you could always search the forums here! I would recommend timing yourself because i really ran short on time for the math part. Sometimes you get caught up in the question and really want to answer it. Which is what happened to me. Good luck studying! and remember, one test is not going to tell you how you will succeed in life, so just do your best and don't worry that much!

Thanks!

What I was doing was dividing 2^30/2 - 2^29/2 to get 2^29 - 2^28 I guess you can't do that.

I really didn't understand this one and couldn't find the problem in the forums.... Quantitative Comparisons... (2^30 - 2^29)/ 2 and 2^28 Which one is bigger...

Since there are 38 questions on the old verbal BB tests, do you just do only 30 questions to emulate the real GRE or do you go ahead and practice meeting the 38 question timeline in 30 minutes?

Good Luck Weirdo!

How much does this actually help in practicing?

i think you meant colonialism?

oa's?

OK, am I on the right track?

No very satisfactory account of the mechanism that caused the formation of the ocean basins has yet been given. The traditional view supposes that the upper mantle of the earth behaves as a liquid when it is subjected to small forces for long periods and that differences in temperature under oceans and continents are sufficient to produce convection in the mantle of the earth with rising convection currents under the mid-ocean ridges and sinking currents under the continents. Theoretically, this convection would carry the continental plates along as though they were on a conveyor belt (conveyor belt: n. 传送带) and would provide the forces needed to produce the split that occurs along the ridge. This view may be correct: it has the advantage that the currents are driven by temperature differences that themselves depend on the position of the continents. Such a back-coupling, in which the position of the moving plate has an impact on the forces that move it, could produce complicated and varying motions. On the other hand, the theory is implausible because convection does not normally occur along lines, and it certainly does not occur along lines broken by frequent offsets (an abrupt bend in an object by which one part is turned aside out of line) or changes in direction, as the ridge is. Also it is difficult to see how the theory applies to the plate between the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the ridge in the Indian Ocean. This plate is growing on both sides, and since there is no intermediate trench, the two ridges must be moving apart. It would be odd if the rising convection currents kept exact pace with them. An alternative theory is that the sinking part of the plate, which is denser than the hotter surrounding mantle, pulls the rest of the plate after it. Again it is difficult to see how this applies to the ridge in the South Atlantic, where neither the African nor the American plate has a sinking part. Another possibility is that the sinking plate cools the neighboring mantle and produces convection currents that move the plates. This last theory is attractive because it gives some hope of explaining the enclosed seas, such as the Sea of Japan. These seas have a typical oceanic floor, except that the floor is overlaid by several kilometers of sediment. Their floors have probably been sinking for long periods. It seems possible that a sinking current of cooled mantle material on the upper side of the plate might be the cause of such deep basins. The enclosed seas are an important feature of the earth’s surface, and seriously require explanation because, in addition to the enclosed seas that are developing at present behind island arcs, there are a number of older ones of possibly similar origin, such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Black Sea, and perhaps the North Sea. The author regards the traditional view of the origin of the oceans with (A) slight apprehension (B) absolute indifference © indignant anger (D) complete disbelief (E) guarded skepticism The answer is E. I am having trouble with tone questions in general. I understand that the passage evokes skepticism, but how do you know its "guarded"? Is it because the writer gives both sides of the arguement showing why the traditional theory was accepted and then points refuting the traditional theory? Would an unguarded skepticism be like a serious mistrust of the traditional theory?

Thanks for the advice! Green tea makes you less nervous? I thought it was a stimulant.... Maybe its good so it will increase concentration! Anyway, will try all the techniques you guys listed. I will practice as much as possible before test day.

17. A 18. C 19. D 20. E 21. B 22. C 23. A 24. C This one was tough....

My question is, how do you get through this passage without loosing your concentration? I'm having trouble maintaining focus... any suggestions? Thanks! Four legal approaches may be followed in attempting to channel technological development in socially useful direction: specific directives, market incentive modifications, criminal prohibitions, and changes in decision-making structures. Specific directives involve the government’s identifying one or more factors controlling research, development, or implementation of a given technology. Directives affecting such factors may vary from administrative regulation of private activity to government ownership of a technological operation. Market incentive modifications are deliberate alterations of the market within which private decisions regarding the development and implementation of technology are made. Such modifications may consist of imposing taxes to cover the costs to society of a given technology, granting subsidies to pay for social benefits of a technology, creating the right to sue to prevent certain technological development, or easing procedural rules to enable the recovery of damages to compensate for harm caused by destructive technological activity. Criminal prohibitions may modify technological activity in areas impinging on fundamental social values, or they may modify human behavior likely to result from technological applications—for example, the deactivation of automotive pollution control devices in order to improve vehicle performance. Alteration of decision-making structures includes all possible modifications in the authority, constitution, or responsibility of private and public entities deciding questions of technological development and implementation. Such alterations include the addition of public-interest members to corporate boards, the imposition by statute of duties on governmental decision-makers, and the extension of warranties in response to consumer action. Effective use of these methods to control technology depends on whether or not the goal of regulation is the optimal allocation of resources. When the object is optimal resource allocation, that combination of legal methods should be used that most nearly yields the allocation that would exist if there were no external costs resulting from allocating resources through market activity. There are external costs when the price set by buyers and sellers of goods fails to include some costs, to anyone, that result from the production and use of the goods. Such costs are internalized when buyers pay them. Air pollution from motor vehicles imposes external costs on all those exposed to it, in the form of soiling, materials damage, and disease: these externalities result from failure to place a price on air, thus making it a free good, common to all. Such externalities lead to nonoptimal resource allocation, because the private net product and the social net product of market activity are not often identical. If all externalities were internalized, transactions would occur until bargaining could no longer improve the situation, thus giving an optimal allocation of resources at a given time. 17. The passage is primarily concerned with describing (A) objectives and legal method for directing technological development (B) technical approaches to the problem of controlling market activity © economic procedures for facilitating transactions between buyers and sellers (D) reasons for slowing the technological development in light of environmentalist objections E) technological innovations making it possible to achieve optimum allocation of resources 18. The author cites air pollution from motor vehicles in lines 54-56 in order to (A) revise cost estimates calculated by including the costs of resources (B) evaluate legal methods used to prevent technological developments © give examples of costs not included in buyer-seller bargains (D) refute hypotheses not made on the basis of monetary exchange values (E) commend technological research undertaken for the common welfare 19. According to the passage, transactions between private buyers and sellers have effects on society that generally (A) are harmful when all factors are considered (B) give rise to ever-increasing resource costs © reflect an optimal allocation of natural resources (D) encompass more than the effects on the buyers and sellers alone (E) are guided by legal controls on the development of technology 20. It can be inferred from the passage that the author does NOT favor which of the following? (A) Protecting the environment for future use (B) Changing the balance of power between opposing interests in business © Intervening in the activity of the free market (D) Making prices reflect costs to everyone in society (E) Causing technological development to cease 21. A gasoline-conservation tax on the purchase of large automobiles, with the proceeds of the tax rebated to purchasers of small automobiles, is an example of (A) a specific directive (B) a market incentive modification © an optimal resource allocation (D) an alteration of a decision-making structure (E) an external cost 22. If there were no external costs, as they are described in the passage, which of the following would be true? (A) All technology-control methods would be effective. (B) Some resource allocations would be illegal. © Prices would include all costs to members of society. (D) Some decision-making structures would be altered (E) The availability of common goods would increase. 23. The author assumes that, in determining what would be an optimal allocation of resources, it would be possible to (A) assign monetary value to all damage resulting from the use of technology (B) combine legal methods to yield the theoretical optimum © convince buyers to bear the burden of damage from technological developments (D) predict the costs of new technological developments (E) derive an equation making costs depend on prices 24. On the basis of the passage, it can be inferred that the author would agree with which of the following statements concerning technological development? (A) The government should own technological operations. (B) The effect of technological development cannot be controlled. © Some technological developments are beneficial. (D) The current state of technological development results in a good allocation of resources. (E) Applications of technological developments are criminally destructive