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  1. I took the literarure in english subject test last month and should receive my score sometime in the next few days. I thought I'd check this forum to see if anyone has received his/her score yet. Apparently no one has. I checked this forum when I was studying for the test, but it seemed as if I was the only person on the planet taking the literature in english subject test. Now there are at least two other people. :tup: Based on my experience, here's some unsolicited advice - the most important thing I'd like to know about the gre subject test - if I were just getting ready to take it for the first time - is how to manage the little time that there is. I think that it is IMPOSSIBLE (and inadvisable) to answer all the questions within the given time limit, so it's extremely important to develop an answer strategy that centers around time management. There's no point wasting time on questions that require even a little thought. Much better to have several passes from beginning to end. The passes are like a circling airplane, waiting for clearance to land - pass one, circle the first time, pass two, circle the second time, etc. Pass one - answer only those questions whose answers jump right out of the page at you in seconds. Pass two - answer the questions whose answers jump out at you within one minute. Pass three - answer the qestions whose answers jump out at you within two minutes. Pass four - if there's still time - answer all the other questions. I still kick myself for not strictly following this strategy. I did only two passes - one and four. Pass one was fine, but pass four bogged me down and ate all the time, because I didn't pace myself! Because I didn't do passes two and three, I didn't get to reread questions that I could answer! If I hadn't done pass one, I wouldn't have even seen the questions near the back of my booklet. Beware of pass four, time ignorantly reading and answering questions without pacing yourself. In my opinion, once time management is fine, content is secondary. Think about it. You have 230 questions and 170 minutes. That's less than 1 minute per question if you're to answer all the questions. That's not even enough time to read and comprehend some of the passages! About 90% of what I studied didn't turn up and about 50% of what I answered didn't require content specific preknowledge. And there were questions that I could not get to answer only because time wouldn't let me :yuck:. Time management - that's the key.[clap] Good luck.
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