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  1. GRE_Kickboxer, Regarding the reading comprehension passages, for me they were consistent with what I saw in PP. Analogies maybe seemed a bit more challenging but nothing worse than what I remember from the BB tests and PP. If you know the words involved, you're golden. I suppose the quant did seem harder than I would have liked, but PP also seemed that way to me. But, no, I didn't find the quant to be crazy hard or surprising. Anyway, best of luck to you, and thanks for your quant help!
  2. I'll have to wait and see on the analytical writing portion. Not preparing for the writing section left me a bit worn out for the verbal and quant sections. Anyway, I primarily used Acro math review along w/ Barrons for my quant prep. I don't have a math background, so I ended up spending all my prep time on quant review and practice. PP 1: V720 Q550 Barrons: Q550 BB tests: V660-780 Q620-730 PP 2: V700 Q720 Leading up to the test day, I re-took the power prep tests again and again. My main thing was to internalize all the algebra and geometry I reviewed. This was to improve my speed and decrease all the stupid mistakes that plagued my initial practice tests. The Big Book tests really helped with that. One more thing: please do prepare for the writing portion! Luckily I had read through some strategy, so I think I at least had good structure and such. But my timing was not good, I'd spend almost all my time writing the first paragraph. Finally, I would advise against letting the prep drag on for too long. I would study for a few days and then take a few weeks off and then study a bit more etc. It's best to just get er done! Thanks everyone and best of luck!
  3. We are in the same boat. When I said it took me more than 5 minutes, it was actually like this: at first glance, I intuitively knew the answer could be found from the info given, but I struggled to figure out who's on first...no, who is on second...etc...so I gave up fast. I let it incubate in my brain (that is, I forgot about it). When I looked again at the problem the next day, the solution seemed suddenly very easy! Under pressure of the real GRE, there's little chance I'd get the answer--though some times I immediately get these (you likely do, too). You know, as I begin to think more in terms of "hmmm, what's the equation to use here", the less I try to just reason through in a more straight-forward logical sort of way. This helps me in some problems (eg, special triangles, work problems) and hurts in others. I think the silver lining is that if you use the equations enough, you begin to internalize them and use them more naturaly. That is, you see the equations more as short cuts...or as the means rather than the ends. I doubt I'll reach this level of math maturity in time for takign the test. Anyway, that's a great thing about studying for the GRE: we get a refresher of our high school math (which some of us might not have paid attention to at the time). And for the verbal part, we grow our vocab. Not a bad deal.
  4. This took me a bit longer than 5 minutes to reason out (including the twisted set up), but here's my solution: Start with a look at this: 1P = 1/3 Q = 1/5 R Now, since we're given that there were 4500 of Q, I decided it might be useful to re-consider the above to be the following: 1Q = 3 P = 3/5 R So if I bought some equal amount of P and R such that the total cost would be 4500 of Q, then my average price would be the average of P and R. Average of 3 and 3/5 is 9/5, so I must have purchased 2500 total shares (4500 divided by 9/5). Since I bought equal amounts of P and R, I bought 4500/2 or 1250 shares of R. This was fun to figure out but for me it could eat up a lot of time on the test.
  5. dbugr

    GRE vs. GMAT

    Hey WallStGolfer31 (or anyone), Which exam/test exactly are you saying has the more difficult math section? I'm kinda reading it to mean GMAT, but I'm not sure.
  6. Zymeth02, I think we need a step #4.1 in which we take the average of #4. And then, step #5 is to get square root of #4.1. Correct me if I'm wrong. BTW, Wikipedia has a good article for SD.
  7. Since the Nova book is mentioned favorably in this forum, I checked it out at the local book store. It seems like the problems, at least those placed in the review section, are more complex than found in other books (Barrons, Kaplan). Do others feel the same way? I'm hoping, too, that the tests on the book CD are challenging in a way that helps for the real GRE.
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