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Thank you so much for taking the time and replying to me. For some reason I thought that using "their" was acceptable even in this case, as a way to avoid using the gender-specific "he" or "she". But I might be wrong. Your comments are well-taken. I think I did ok on my analytical writing section. I thought time was more than enough. I scored 4.5 on that section.

Hey, good luck on your GRE. I posted a short description of my experience and my scores in this thread: http://www.www.urch.com/forums/just-finished-my-gre/143396-158v-155q.htmlyou can check it out if interested. As I mentioned I got 4.5 on my analytical writing.

Hey. Thank you for your reply. I already took my GRE and got 4.5 on analytical writing section, but its nice to see that someone took the time to reply to me. If you need your essay be rated, feel free to post it here and I'll do my best in providing feedback :)

I did the unrevised PowerPrep, and got in the range of 540-590 on verbal and in the range of 740-800 on math. That's how the program showed me my scores. Learning the GRE vocab from the sources that can be found on this forum is very useful. All the difficult words in my exam were from those GRE vocab lists. Ironically, I encountered the word "abstruse" in my test haha.

Finished my GRE today. 158v, 155q. Slightly disappointed with the scores. I barely prepared though. I found the math section to be a bit more difficult compared to PowerPrep, but the verbal section was about the same. My biggest problem was definitely the time. At the end of each section, I barely had time to think well on the last 2-3 questions and I just rushed through them and even clicked on the answers at random. I think I did really well on the analytical writing section though, but I still do not know the scores obviously. Anyhow, do you guys think these scores might be competitive for social psychology masters/PhD programs at Temple, Drexel or even Rutgers? oh and one more question: these scores are my preliminary scores, and I wonder if there are usually any changes between the preliminary scores and the final reported scores? I'd appreciate a reply. Thank you!

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