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Hi everybody. Thanks for the congratulations For Math, I used Kaplan, Barrons, Powerprep, and "How to Prepare for the GRE." I think doing Powerprep over and over was key for me. It acquaints you with the format and also gives you the types of questions that might appear on the real test. Barron's was also good and the Math review gave you some good shortcuts. Definitely know median, mean mode etc as well as different shortcuts - eg., how to use logic instead of doing calculations. For verbal - I went through the word lists in Barron's but only once or twice. In fact, I don't remember any words from Barron's on my test. So, it's nice to know the words but that's not everything. I practised doing lots of RC passages and I used the strategy where you write the main points on the scratch paper and then you refer to what you have written for your answers. Also, I think that one should try to practise every day, even if only for an hour. On the weekend I did more stuff. About a month and a half before the test I only did practise tests and tried to see where my mistakes were and if I could find a pattern. On the day of the test, I tried not to worry - it's amazing how much better of a test taker you are if you are not stressed out. Good luck to everybody!

Hi everybody I took the GRE on April 25th and got 800 Q 750 V. I had studied for about 3 months, and needless to say I am very happy with my scores :D. At the end of the test I received an identified experimental verbal section that I guess shows how the future GRE will be - I decided not to do it. Funnily, it said that the first 100 individuals who get a score higher on the experimental section than on their regular section will get 250 dollars 3-5 months from taking the test. Verbal was, I thought, a bit harder than Powerprep with weird words. Math was a bit easier. There were lots of questions on ranges, median, mean etc, and also some tricky calculations. I finished with about 2 min left. If anybody wants more info, let me know - I'd be happy to share advice and insights....

yes, but the only way for the range to be 2 would be if you we had something like this 7,7,7,5,7 (i.e., the max of either x or y or z would be 7), and that average is clearly not 8

Ok, I did a practise Powerprep question and this was part of the last question I got on the test. It was a question where you had to choose which of the following MUST be true, so here is what the ETS people said If the average (arithmetic mean) of x, y, z, 5 and 7 is 8, then III. The range of the five numbers is 2 or more. According to ETS, III is true. However, how can the range of these five numbers be 2? If the average is 8, this means that x+y+z=28. So in the case where we have the least "spread out" numbers, we'll have for x, y and z 9,9,10, and the range for all five numbers then will be 10-5=5. So I don't understand how you can get a range of 2, in my opinion III is not true. Any takes? Thanks

Ok, I have a question about the explanations for this problem. We know that the slopes of perpendicular lines are negative reciprocals. So in this case the first line has a slope of sqrt(3)/1 so the second line will have a slope of -1/sqrt(3) I don't see how the second line will have an x coordinate of -1, I think it should be -sqrt(3) Thanks

Yes, the question is complete. It appeared in a practise test in Peterson's. But they gave D as the right answer (not enough info given). I thought the answer was A. I got approximately the same thing for the maximum by guessing. How did you get your number?

Hey guys, I was wondering what you thought about this problem. You need to compare 6x+7y=45 and xy I thought the answer was a, since no matter what combination you select, the product of x and y is always smaller than 45. Also, they can never be equal. Thanks so much!!!!