RanjanM

Sorry, was stuck again in my Grad Apps. Burnout seems to be a daily activity for me. Sigh. Ya, I studied from the online texts at NCBI (also a little from SCHAUMs outlines... though the schaum book confused me because of its format). I can't say for sure what is important or not... but as you read through 'methods' make experimental senarios up in your head ...that helps a lot in the last 15 questions that mostly stumped me (cause they are not that hard... just lengthy to read). Anyway, I have to get back to the admissions process. There are four colleges due on monday... and 13 due after that. if you have already done the exam, I hope it wen't well. RanjAn

Sorry, I've been in the middle of classes and applications and research and other things. I did my GRE biochem, and I'll tell you what, the best advise I can give is - keep a clear head be aware AND DON'T FREAK OUT (also, get lots of sleep before the exam). I didn’t rely a bit on the stuff I learnt a week before the exam. I leaned on prior exam and class experience; also, I found it to be real easy to derive answers to many questions that you would not normally know (using elimination). But most importantly, don't care about problems you can't solve - if a question takes more than 40 seconds to answer, go to the next one. Do all the hard ones at the end. A little solace I received from my professors about the Biochem exam was that it is considered to be the hardest subject test on the ETS market because of its voluminous content. So, if you do well on the exam, its a BIG one up on others, but if you bomb it, admissions committees normally say "um, its a freaking hard exam, It doesn’t matter". So, when you go to the exam hall, think of it as a fun challenge rather than an exam one has to face. Good luck to everyone, RanjAn

Ya, I just finished with mine two. It was HARROWING. [xx(] Don't know if I should send the scores to for my applications. It might just hurt me rather than help me. O well. Its over.:o

Ask, I got this from the ETS website about GRE subject test regulations. "You may not communicate with anyone about the content of the test while the test session is in progress, during breaks, or after the test." Thats such crap!

OK, i'm sick of reading the entire book. Right now, I'm reading the summary at the back, and ALL the figures available online from the NCBI library. Hopefully, that should at least help me a little. what say you people? Please say its a good idea... cause I have NO energy to go through the whole book right now. RanjAn

Hey you all, I'm about to do the GRE biochem subject test on November 7th, just two days from now! I was wondering if anyone has done it before, and if so, how different is the exam in question material from the practice book? Also, if anyone has some last minute study advise, this forum would love to hear from you (i'm sure). What I'm doing presently, is just patiently scratching out the list of things I've revised from the syllabus that the ETS has provided on page 5 of the booklet. Anyway, if I don’t get any replies, good luck to all. And don’t worry – EVERYONE is in as bad a shape for the exam (I hope at least!):(. RanjAn