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So, its my turn to write my GRE experience! Well, first I want to say 'thank you' to test magic forum, specially the thread "Just finished My GRE". Here I have learned a lot, really lot. My preparation details: Verbal: 1. Knew all 4000+ words of Barrons. (It did not paid me fully due to the strategic faults of mine, I will discuss it later portion of this post. ) 2. Done all 27 verbal xm of Bigbook. 3. Done analogy bible Quant: 1. Nova (Very good) 2. Barrons (Ok, will take at best 7 days(3 hour in a day) to solve ) 3. Kaplan (Just difficult and modest type maths) 4. Dr Raju site( Very important, Just go to Quant Database, these are very similar to real test) My Mock test result: 1. PowerPrep: First One: V-580, Q-800 Second One: V-600, Q-780 2. Kaplan: 1. V-520, Q-710 2. V-530, Q-790 3. V-520, Q-710 3. Princeton: 1. V-680, Q-780 2.V-560, Q-780 4. Barrons: 1. V-580, Q-710 2. V-580, Q-760 Do not try 800 score.com, its below the standard in either verbal or quant. From my personal view only powerprep can give you accurate Quant score. Other's Quant are totally bogus, they are outdated. So if you get low score in quant section of other than pp dont bother. So, I was expecting V>550-600 and Q>790-800. But something happened and I was doomed in verbal section. First I got the Quant. I found them moderate difficulty. Some guys talk that ets is continuously making this section difficult . Although, after taken the test I do not think so. I was expecting 800 in that section. 790 may be due to some silly mistakes. Beware about that. The next section was verbal. First three questions were ok. But I was socked to see the 4th one. It's an antonym, and out of barron's 4000+ words. I was sure that none of the antonym would be beyond barron. So, it was certainly a shocker. And I further socked later when I got two more antonyms out of Barrons. I knew something bad is going to happen. The SC were long and intrigued, took long time to solve. I knew the first 10 questions are important. So, possibly I spend 14 minutes on them. This was the first mistake I commenced, unlike the mock I took in my home. Remember the first ten is important. Ok, but do not waste so much time on them. Basically those were antonym, SC and analogy. If you want to score 550-600+ you have to read the passage carefully at least once. If you waste too much time remembering the CAT thing you will not be able to read those passage like me. In 21 question I got my 110 line second passage with 7 minute left. I quickly(!) cover q21 to q 25 in three minutes, gust guess game, I think none of my given ans were right. While 4 minute in hand I got another passage with 2 questions, I just blindly answered them thinking I am out of time. While done the verbal section I was exhausted and could not possibly get even 700 if another quant would come,although that did not happen. So, what I have learned is that 1. Verbal section is sometimes matter of luck, you can get 3 antonym word uncommon out of 6-7 antonym even gathering a solid 4000+ word vocabulary 2. Dont dawdle too much with first 10 questions in order to get a good score 3. Remain calm in the exam. If anyhow you got excited, you will be freaked out and possibly ruin the entire test. 4. Test in home and test is test center is totally different issue. Good score in home mock test can not always justify your capability. You have to be good on test day. Now give me some suggestions: First will I retake the GRE? I want to go for PhD degree in CS. I am from the top rank Engineering University of our country with 75.5 percentile. Have 1.5 years work experience in software industry and one semester teaching experience in an University. I have applied some middle tier university like University of Memphis, Florida International University,Texas-el paso, University of Nebraska Linkon. With this gre and 100 TOEFL score will I get funding in PhD in these universities?

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Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty—whether to one's friends, to one's school or place of employment, or to any institution—is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force." ________________________________________________________________ From our childhood we are taught to be loyal, because it is one of the ingredients of good human being, because precepts say it is a virtue. But while applying this loyalty in some particular cases we can see that it convokes destruction sometimes, rather than reinforcing positive forces it sometimes destroys our other moral values that are also basic requirement of good human being. We think our friends to be very loyal, that’s why we often inform them our confident information . But we can not imagine how our friends loyal behavior bring us ill fame . I can mention here one of my loyal friend here. Few days ago I went to a friend of mine, sat down on his computer and browse facebook which is a social networking platform where from we can communicate with other friends. I forgot to log out form the site. This friend of mine was very loyal to me and I even now can not imagine how he abused this type of loyalty feeling of mine. He used my facebook account to deliver lewd, licentious messages to some of my friends. Later I had to contact them and told them that this messages was not from me. I even don’t know whether they have believed this or not. Another type of loyalty feeling experience regarding my friends becomes horrible while lending money. When friends ask me for money I lend them because they are loyal to me. But most of the cases I do not get the money back. This two cases can show what is the obvious fault of loyalty. In office employee seems to be loyal. That’s why they are highly believed and this causes negative effect sometimes. We often see notice in the newspaper regarding the secret departure of employee from a office with money or other valuable things. This employee gains the loyalty first and when they get the scope to abuse this, they just abuse. Loyalty to institution, tenet can cause greater harms. When a person is loyal to an institution or organization he tries to conform with the believes and dogmas of them. He has to hide confidential information that requires to be immediately revealed for greater welfare of community, society. But he can not do it because he is loyal. Often employee have to do illegal things for the success of organization. He does it because he is loyal. All the evidences presented earlier does not necessary mean that we do not need loyalty in out human society. They are some cases where loyalty calls destruction, causes negative effects. What I mean that loyalty should require a threshold, a boundary where we can apply it and get positive results.

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"It is dangerous to trust only intelligence." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligence is the inherent thing of us what makes us human being. We are the best among all living species because we possess this delicate thing greatly. But alone dependence upon intelligence can convoke negative effects as well. There are some other factors that are also complementary of getting success and it is really dangerous to trust only intelligence. Turing to the first point, only possessing intelligence can not make our things done. As human being we achieve some other qualities that are equally essential for us. For example, think about building a house. We may know what are the equipments we require to build it, it’s plan, but still we can not build it. If we only depend upon our intelligence and try to build it then the whole thing will be a nonsense work. To build a house it requires some expertise. Dedicated engineers can come up with a robust plan but at the end of the day it will be the house builder who will physically effort here. Without this physical effort it’s impossible to build it. So, we can see just intelligence can not guarantee the job done, it requires some other quality, the industriousness of the labor to finish it. Think the example of two students appearing in an exam. Suppose these two students A and B of a class. Everyone know student A as a very intelligent student and student B as a not so good student. In an upcoming exam if student A does not prepare at all and student B study diligently, does cover all the syllabus, then the inherent brightness, intelligence of student A will be totally fruitless. Anyone will bate in this case that student B will do good in the exam. So, we can vividly see it’s not just intelligence that can bring success, it’s the effort that can compensate the lack of intelligence and can be the key to success. If we do not completely trust our intelligence then this will be a ‘sin’, as this is the thing that’s why we human are here, at the pinnacle of civilization. Lot’s of animals in this world who are more industrious, possess greater dedication comparatively human. But we the human have surpassed them in terms of intelligence and we have got the dignity to sit on the top of all. So it’s obvious that trust on intelligence is necessary, but the point is this trust should not be too much or only. Trusting only intelligence makes us conceited, over confidant. We falsely misinterpret our ability. If we get the opportunities to trust some other qualities of human being then trust can not be only responsible for this. Summing up all the point we can conclude that believing and trusting only on intelligence can be dangerous. If we depend on intelligence as well as the motivation, industriousness then coupling all of these can bring us great success.

In the Bayhead Public Library, books that are rarely borrowed continue to take up shelf space year after year, while people who want to read a recent novel frequently find that the library's only copy is checked out. Clearly, the library's plan to replace books that are borrowed no more than once a year with sufficient copies of more recent books will solve this problem. The protest we have heard since this plan was made public has come from a small, and thus unrepresentative, group of some thirty people and so should therefore be ignored. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The author represents evidences to make us convince that replacing old rarely borrowed books with latest books will solve Baayhead Public Library’s problems. Some close and insightful observations how over show that the author proposed scanty evidences at best to solve the issue. Turning to the first point, the author assumes that the library contains one copy of latest book and people find that that book is checked out by someone else. That’s why people can not borrow the book at that moment. But this problem does in no way linked with the big volume of rarely borrowed books. The author does not mention here the hassle of finding latest books from large number of books due to rarely borrowed books, rather he has presented the case of few number of books. The second flaw of the argument is that it has been assumed that if a book is not borrowed no more than once a year, the book becomes obsolete and it requires no urgency to keep it in the library. But there are certain cases for which the book is not borrowed no more than once. Possibly the book was not needed for anyone for any purposes. But we all know that libraries are the source of all reference books. We can get any old books from there as our need. May be that book is not needed by anyone at this moment, but after that year it may be required. The third flaw is regarding the representative group who have protested. The author has just mention just a small that’s why unrepresentative group. There is no indication of how large this group is in respect of total user of the library. May be this is the group of people who are the active user of the library. So their concern should have a value. But the author has disregard them merely saying that they are small. Summing up all we can say that the policy is not best supported by the evidences. The argument would be strengthen if the author notify the hassle of finding new books from the large volume of old books. The author could mention the active users of the library and then we could justify the group of thirty people would be small or not. He could use other effective metric to define books as rarely borrowed. At the last point we can say the argument does not contain strong evidence to convince us.

As far I know there may be 2 Q and 1 V section or 1 V and 2 Q section. Sometimes it may be just one verbal and one Quantitative section. Can anyone tell me how frequently the third one happens.....? It's disgusting answering an extra Q or V section which is not evaluated....:yuck:

Thee of the answer choices were wrong in first 10 questions, 1st, 6th and 9th were wrong

I am getting perplexed about the scoring system of ETS, becoimg frustrated about the so called very intelligent CAT system of ETS. Yesterday I have taken a powerPREP verbal test where I scored just 410. Can you guess how much my answere were correct? You will say, "well, this test is adaptive, it depends on your earlier questions correctness". Very good. Among first ten questions seven of my answere choice were right. In totall I have got twenty out of thirty qestions correct. BUT i ended up scoring 410. My first five questions status was W,R,R,R,R. The possibility of this low scoring may be due to the wrong answer of first question. What a ludicrous scenario! Just imagine just putting one wrong answer at the very first stage how much jeopardizing your good score. While experimenting this powerPREP i have found giving choice all the questions randomly A, B, C, D, E it shows score 300. So the difference between 2/3 correct answeres and all random choice is just 100! ETS how long you will remain numb? :idea: What do you think about this?