Ajaxanon

There is a number you can call. I don't have it on hand, but I know you can find it online if you look. They will give you your results including AWA for a charge of about $17 (that's USD, and if you live in a place like Zimbabwe, that is roughly $3,0870 000 000 000 (Zim $), although this isn't easy to calculate since they took ten zeros off their currency recently. With inflation rates estimated at anywhere between 500 000% and 10 000 000%, the price of one beer, which costs roughly 1 trillion dollars today, will be somewhere between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion zim dollars tomorrow. :hmm: I guess my point is that USD$17 could be worth paying, depending on what currency you're paying with :rolleyes:

congratulations gogre (interesting name). It's great to see someone succeed after putting in so much effort. I wish you well with your CS studies :tup:

With regard to word lists, I learned plenty of them, but fumbled on the actual GRE. I am also a prolific reader, and read classic novels like they're going out of fashion...oh no wait..they've already gone out of fashion. oh well i read em anyway. This did not help me much on GRE test day though. I think there were only one or two words that came up that I had studied from all the lists. One of them was (and I'm not suppose to divulge this info, so this is an apostrophe, a conceit, or a soliloquy for all who care :P) 'pusillanimous' - Pretty straight forward word if you've seen it before. I was getting 700 - 720 for Verbal on test preps, including PP, but ended up with a measly 610 on actual GRE. RC's weren't too bad, but SC's had their sordid way with me...in practise tests I had had no trouble with them, but guess nerves got the better of me on the day..oh well. Funny though because I managed a 770 on Quan as an English Major. I would think that nerves would play more of a role there. Anyway, I will not retake the test for this reason...I doubt I would do so well on quan a second time round. c'est la vie. 1380 is not a bad score

I think 14 is A because: To assert your point is pretty neutral, but to belabor your points means to assert it too much (negative). To tend to something is again neutral, but to fuss over something is to tend to it too much (negative). 14. Assert : Belabor a) tend : fuss b) refine : temper c)describe : demean d) resemble : portray e) contaminate : purge

I think u r confused because u don't understand that monolithic means from one single rock, which is good enough of an antonym for multifarious;)

multifarious (note spelling) means having many aspects, like multifaceted. monolithic, if I'm not mistaken usually refers to very large structures that were created from one single rock, rather than combining many. In ancient greek temples, many huge columns are monolithic and were carved out of huge individual rocks from nearby quarries. Abrogate means a formal act of abolishing something or annulling it. Slavery was abrogated, etc. Enact either means to carry out or act out, or it means a formal decree or order.

Many people may disagree with my advice :hmm: With longer RCs I found them easier to tackle if I read through the first sentence of each paragraph and the last sentence of the intro and entire passage beforehand. This gave me a rough idea of what the passage was about before skim reading it a second time. With shorter passages, I looked at the beginning and end of the passage and then went over to the first question. I tried to answer the first question when I read through the whole passage. Don't know if this will help you, or if it is the best advice, but I really felt it helped me. :rolleyes:

I am very sorry to hear about your misfortune arifa. :( Perhaps try one more time?

I did better on actual GRE in Quan than both Powerprep CATs. I did worse on the verbal section though. I found it difficult to concentrate on sentence completions in the actual GRE, whereas on the prep tests I found them very easy. GRE Bible CAT is very lenient. 800score.com Quan is difficult because the questions require longer calculations which take more time. I strongly recommend that you go through PP Quan a few times and make sure that you are familiar with the question types. I think this is how I got 770 on Quan as an english major who knows little about maths. My verbal was disappointing on test day; I had not used Big book or barrons to prepare and was very nervous. good luck

I am hoping to get into a grad school for research psychology, which may involve quantitative methodology. What sort of colleges could I hope to get into with Q 770 and V610? I am an english major and didn't do as well as i had hoped on verbal :/ Is my GRE score good enough to get accepted into masters programs?

I just completed the GRE and got one quan question that required me to type in the answer. If I recall, it gave me 6 numbers and x, like 60, 70, 90, 50 and 60. Said that the median was greater than the mean, so what does x = ? And I had to type in the answer! Is this normal, or do you think this was the "experimental section" since it was my second quant section? This was the last question of the entire exam for me and my brain was frazzled. :crazy:

I just did the GRE and got the scores above. I am happy with Quan but a little disappointed with Verbal. In PP practise CATs I got 700 and 720 for Verbal, but lower for Quan. I am from South Africa, and majored in English Lit, so I was hoping to do a bit better in the Verbal section. Actual GRE exam: First section: Quan - I felt that it went well, and I encourage others to prevail in the first handful of questions because I think they get easier towards the end. Just make sure to leave enough time for the last questions! Verbal - Sentence completions were more difficult that practise examples; maybe because I was anxious. In practise tests, I got almost all of the SCs correct, but struggled to scrutinize the SCs accurately in the GRE. RCs were typical questions, especially considering the difficulty level associated with 610 score. I felt rushed and a bit chaotic with verbal. Second Quant was tougher. Perhaps I was fatigued. A number of Data Interpretation questions took too much time which caused time problems later on. There were may be 4 or 5 questions requiring me to convert stuff like acres into square miles, inches into miles in circular revolutions and cubic feet in volume of water into height of tank in inches. This was very confusing for me because in South Africa we use the metric system (10mm = 1cm. 100cm = 1m. 1000m = 1km etc). I wonder if this was the experimental section since I indicated that I was not from the USA in pretest questions??? Anyhow, was rather confusing for me. Overall, I was "hoping" for at least 650 on verbal and 750 on math, so I'm not too disappointed, having gotten 770Q (+-85%) and 610 V (+-85%) I doubt I will retake the test. I am hoping to get into grad school for research/experimental psychology. Is my score adequate to get into a decent program? My GPA is difficult to quantify because of the difference style of grading in South Africa. At the university I went to the grading system was as follows: First (A): 75%+ Second (B): 60% - 75% Third ©: 50% - 60% Fail: -50% I got a lower B (60-70%) for each of my two majors (English Lit. and Classical history) and a B for psychology (a third subject in my final year) It is very difficult to get a first (A), especially for an English Lit. Major. Even if you work very hard and are naturally gifted with english, you will probably still get a B, but some students do get As. Should I be happy with my GRE result? Which colleges should I aim to get into? What can I do to facilitate my application into a research psych program? Thanks for all the good advice and help guys!

admonition (express disapproval) - countenance (consent to, give permission) prosaic (dry, dull, often writing style) - romantic - (romanticism period..) flinch - extol (really not too sure about this one...to recoil or wince, and to praise or glorify???)

Hey all. I am taking the GRE in a couple of days and am naturally coming to the end of my preparation for it. Unfortunately I did not use BB :/ and I wasted a lot of time learning GRE Bible Vocab (I do not recommend that approach to anyone.) Anyhow, I just took the second PowerPrep CAT and was wondering what to expect on test day. How do one's PP CAT results usually correlate to actual GRE score? I am pleased enough with my PP results, having gotten 750 for Quan and 720 for Verbal, and would be very pleased to get the same sort of result on test day, but don't know if I can use this prep result as a marker. Any idea? One other thing...the PP CAT did not have question numbers or time on it. It only indicated when 5 mins was left per section. The RC's and data analysis, did however indicate that the ensuing questions were numbers (x -y), which helped. So, i rushed, especially through quan, stumbling, clawing, and floundering my way through each question, wondering what number I was on and how much time was left. :hmm: :eek: :mad: :doh: :crazy: Not a pleasant experience. Can I expect such hysteria on test day, or will there be a running clock and question number in view? Thanks for the help guys; and tx Goldust for you response on my last querry :)

For Quans...getting 800 first time round is not a bad start :tup: For verbal: To increase your score, I would suggest the following: Reading Comprehension: get your hands on as many past GRE RCs as possible. Attempt to answer the questions in your own time. Try to understand how the correct answer was obtained. Take diagnostic tests on computer, and work through RCs slowly. Analyze explanations of correct answers. GRE repeats same kinds of questions (roughly 7 or so) over and over again, so learn to spot these questions and how to asnwer them. Finally, once you start getting the hang of it, start increasing your speed. Practice under test time constraints. Do as many as you can. Familiarize yourself with reading the passages. They are condensed and often difficult to follow, but the more you work with them, the more comfortable you will become. Vocab: This is very important for a good Verbal score. I suggest you use something like Kaplan's Verbal Workbook, which you can download online. They tell you the 12 most common GRE words, then the next 20, then the next 50, and so on, up to about 200. Then they help you learn words in groups, but first I would suggest moving on to another list, like Barrons top 220 words. (These are all to be found online) Master those. try to learn the antonyms for each. (This is a good way to learn the nuances of words) From there you can move onto another list of the top 500 frequent words. If you want to go on, you can use a GRE vocab program, like GRE Bible, but then you are looking at about 3000 words, which is very tedious to learn :crazy: Trust me, I did it, and it was a sheer waste of time and effort. Rather focus on common words. There are lists of common words with tricky second meanings. learn these. Make FLASH CARDS...lots and lots of them. Put antonyms on them (you can use some msn encarta thesaurus online to find antonyms) Antonyms: Know your vocab...you will often need to know the implied nuances of words, not just their general meaning. Example: refractory: tractable. The meanings of the words are not obviously related, but if you know the different scenarios that the words can be used, then you can make the link. Use lists of common GRE antonyms. understand the words and remember their antonyms :grad: Analogies - just practice and learn to differentiate between bridges. Again, you will need to know vocab. The more you do, the better you will get. Sentence Completion: read the sentence carefully. If you can, think of words that would fill in the blanks before looking at the answers. If not, which is probably often, then go through the answers. Eliminate one or two that just don't fit or that contradict the meaning of the sentence. You should be able to boil it down to two contenders. Then do your best to choose the best one. There might be subtle differences that make one answer better than another. Try to find clues in the sentence that would support one answer over the other. There often are subtle clues. Finally, do lots of practice tests under simulated conditions, i.e. time constraints and on the computer. Make sure that you do PowerPrep CATs once you're feeling confident. You can even do one before you've become confident with the verbal to give you an idea of what you're up against. I am writing in 3 days! :eek: Feeling nervous :doh: