Mash

Hey, anyone looking for co- study??? I have all 8 manhattan preps and official guide to GRE by ETS.* JUST looking for guidance and co-study in a schedule of three months, ready to help and be helped.

Hey, anyone looking for co- study??? I have all 8 manhattan preps and official guide to GRE by ETS. JUST looking for guidance and co-study in a schedule of three months, ready to help and be helped.

Hi I took already in 2010, old gre, didnt fail, but low percentile in awa, and quantitative. Wanna retake, need to improve on AWA and quantitative, only seriously preparing candidates wanted for co-study.

Jia Could you please elucidate on logical reasoning questions? do you mean Reading comprehension? or AWA argument and issue essay? Was the vocab easier than in the wordlists?

Rahman, i have relpied to this question in the post on [info] who has taken the revised GRE. check that out.

@Shanishal and Rahman Vocab is VERY VERY useful. You get half the questions right out of Vocab. People prepare 4000 words from Nova GRE prep and 3500 from barrons, i have seen and i am one of them. It exponentially increases your verbal score. Its even more important to learn words since because of time constraint, you will do all vocab based questions from whole verbal sections, first, to save time for critical reading questions, that involve thinking. (you will have to use the skipping and coming back option for that) Once you know the words it takes one or less than one second to mark the correct answer. Now how to prepare the extremely boring wordlists: An expert told me to learn and test myself for 5 barrons wordlists per day. I stuck to the schedule and you can easily finish 3500 words in ten days like this. I have don that and believe me i am not the kind of person who like working hard, i'd rather sleep all day than cramming words, but it pays a lot if you do. Then use Wordy mobile app, if you have or visit Wordsmithin's website to test yourself. Also: keep in mind to take surprise tests, (apart from wordy or other tests, they should be self tests of remembering) of all the previous and that wordlist every day before preparing the five WLs and after preparing them. (cuz words forget easily so you'll have to increase the capacity of your mind's hard disk that way). I have seen non-native English speakers get 800 in verbal, but they studied 12 hours per day with strategies, purely focused and attentive, quality 12 hours. About my verbal score, it was 530, at 70th percentile, while my institute required 500. Even though i messed up in Reading comprehension questions, that i am very bad at (but doing a lot of RC paragraphs keeping in mind the Nova GRE prep course RC questions types and how to do them is very very helpful). For Quant, Rahman i am also very bad but if you could start in the morning with a fresh mind, start with barrons first, then Nova GRE bible, Barron's has basic techniques, and formulae that are helpful for those who are not so good in maths, and Nova has rally good solutions to very tough maths questions with explanations, but you would not understand the solutions, unless you understand the basics. For those familiar with maths, Nova Maths bible is the best. But for good score you should know barron's maths tricks on fingertips and must be able to understand all the question's in Nova maths Bible. Quant score requires mental alertness, observation and taking in the whole information being given, not just a fraction of it, so whenever you start for quant, make sure your mind is not thinking of anything else and you can focus completely, take tea or coffee, and do excercise within breaks to increase oxygen supply to brain. Start quant without time constraint first, if you find that you get questions correct without time constraint, without any help, then start timed practice (once you learn all the techniques and know how to do questions). If anyone has time and can get, GRE big book helps for good preparation. You can ask if you have any problems.

You are right i am overthinking things because i didnt know what exactly to think, to improve my essays. I do straw man all the time here, and this careful writing is new-found, i.e., after getting 3/6 in AWA this month. Yes dogmatic and dogged may be used to describe a characteristic of a person, as well as a categorization into certian types who are not self conscious (or are hypocritical in other words). so it depends on the context of its use (perhaps). and Exactly if the statement said that following own beliefs and opinions would be going against the opinion of people that would be autocracy. See how i overdo things because i do not know how to do it the right way. I am lucky that you are here to tell when i am overdoing and what is acceptable in GRE and what is not. Thanks a lot Best regards Mash

@godlesschum Thanks a lot that was exactly what i was looking for, now i know why i scored3/6. becasue i started making an argument in the issue essay instead of analyzing and then taking side.

@Sollee Thanks a lot You are right i should read everything. I will try to analyze arguments in newspaper articles too. Any advice on how to prepare for issue essay? and argument analysis? How do people score 5/6? I dont think many newspaper articles (Op-Ed) even in New York Times can score 2/6 in GRE. They have a lot of logical fallacies.

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For example if the prompt is: whether leaders should stick to their stance or change their stance with change in public opinion If i write: A leader should empathize with people he is leading and determine their stance according to what best solves people's problems rather than dogmatically or doggedly following their own beliefs. This colored phrase has rhetoric language like "dogmatically following" it is an example of PATHOS: emotion induced in audience to support my argument rather than considering the antithesis in a valid way and answering the antithesis as if it is a genuine concern. In this sentence after "rather than" am i making people think of a leader who does not deviate from their stance as someone dogmatic, and who does things doggedly without thinking? In our country, articles embellished with rhetoric devices are highly regarded, and we find logically false arguments in newspaper articles by intellectuals, debates on news channel programs, in school text books (on history especially, those text books are approved by govt.) and media generally, no one publishes a logically correct but unembellished article, perhaps because it wont attract public attention? I dont know how to write in a neutral and critical way Even a New York Times article by Maureen Dowd in past month, about Obama's compromising policy with Republicans, started with words like he is not biased, not bipolar but Binary, isnt this also kind of making a joke about his compromising strategy? If the article was critically written, the author should have considered Obama's strategy as valid, considering all its positive effects and its negative effects with equal seriousness and genuineness? Please help me out here, I read somewhere that all the talk with logical fallacies is "conversational terrorism", and i think even if its not terrorism itself, it does promote anger or ridicule and make people categorize the subject of such text as someone who should be thought of in a specific light of e.g. the scadal, or whatever the author wants the reader to think about the subject. In today's world we cannot afford more heated mobs of people, or angry individuals who have been misguided by logically false material on media. Looking forward to your guidance Best regards PS sorry for such lengthy reply

Thats great Score WOW Good luck for Applications :)

Thanks a lot Muky Looking forward to studying now. :)

Hi thanks for tips on AWA I got 3/6 in AWA in test on 5th july, after learning logical fallacies, reading Stella Cotterel's Critical thinking skills and studying sociology, world history and art history for issue essay. What more do i need to do? I dont have economist but read articles from International Herald Tribune. The main problem is when i want to use some catchy rhetorics, in my essay, which affects the critical air of essay altogether. Logical and rhetorical themes cant go together i think. Could you please let me know what else to do?

Hi I msgd you on infamuzkid, but never got any response?

Thanks a lot revised Since you are good in RC, could you please let us know some good prep source an method to improve comprehension o texts? Doesnt reading single or double words, take more time than reading whole paragraphs?... (this is my biggest fear) THanks for your opinion

Hi Rachel Could you please let us know if calculator was of any help? Were the questions too lengthy since now calculators are there? And could you please discuss AWA in a separate thread, in detail? Issue essay has reduced time? does it affect the argument one is making? How many paragraph essay should one go for? Any tips for argument analysis? How is the new argument analysis different from old argument analysis? Sorry for so many questions but i recently bungled my old test so have to take it again and dont want to repeat the mistakes. Thanks

@ fina Wow GREAT result. could you please write something on the issue and argument essays? i.e., how to's and do's and dont's ? Looking forward to learning writing from you.

No Doubt Nova's maths GRE bible is the best maths prep text available.

P.S. i hope you will share your GRE experience with us too :)

GRE AWA practice book for new AWA format discusses what kind of essays you can write and how they are to be graded. Other approaches wont get you marks. Just give good reasons and examples and beware of straw man fallacy that over confident people (like me) fall prey to and mess things up. All you have to do is to present a critical approach to any topic or text, which involves evaluating the antitheses while considering them as VALID arguments against your thesis and then come up with well considered syntheses to counter the arguments against your thesis (or point of view). Its all about being considerate of differing points of views (by assigning space for them too) and considering them as valid and finding a serious and sincere synthesis. It is better to avoid rhetorics to the extent that it does not mess up with your critical approach and does not color your writing. Another very important thing is that do not cite too specific examples, or exceptional cases if you want to demosntrate how your point of view can be generalized. Or if the exception and too specific example is relevant, you can always keep a reservation by explaining so and it would be good to say what happens more generally as compared to the examples you have cited and how do you find a solution while considering all, i.e., exceptions, specificities and general things. Dont worry be critical thinker and you will get very good grades Time assigned and quality time efficiently spent may be different :) All the best for GRE Good Luck

link to a video on strategies for revised GRE verbal

exactly same problem here.

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