sklamba

Ha ha aesthetic_ascetic, what a SOP... I should have used that :P Good one :)

Hey Getitnow! I was thinking of doing a master of Master in Engineering Management too (But went for a more technical master in the end... ORIE) That's why I knew that USC has the program: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ise/academics/graduate/ Best luck to you! Sklamba

Hey Spinning the Wheel: I think EconoMist brought up a good point: It depends on the schools you apply. Cuz I knew a friend who got admitted to USC with a very low Verbal score of around 400 and low AWA (~4). I also heard USC has the record of not caring too much about GRE score. Also let me remind you that GRE is not everything (although a good GRE score definitely helps your application). If you have been in testmagic for a while, it is not hard to notice some ppl with GRE of V600ish/Q750+ admitted to top schools like Stanford. Instead of investing all your time on GRE, you should also work on the rest of your application (such as LOR, Personal statement). If you have time to retake GRE, I would advice you to do so. I studied Barron's list too, it's a good way to build a solid vocabulary for GRE. However, I fount Powerprep and Big book most helpful, both of they really prepare you for the real GRE.

Hey Prudvi_prudvi, I happened to have a bachelor in mechanical also,and i just got admitted to Cornell's Master of Operations research and industrial engineering, Michigan Ann Arbor's Industrial Engineering and Operations engineering , Columbia's Operations research. So I thought my profile might help you. GRE: V660 Q790 AWA5.5 TOEFL:283

I wouldn't get discouraged, if I really want to get into that program. I don't know why you got rejected, but If I were you, I would revise my profile (GRE/GPA/Personal Statement etc.) and reapply next semester or year. I would even call the admission to get more info on my rejection. Don't get discouraged!

Thanks Moo and Zorillo! Moo: I have also heard Cornell has nice campus! But nothing beats Vancouver :P I am from Canada too (Quebec to be exact) Zorrillo: Good suggestion! I will look into that....

Thanks a lot Erin! Testmagic helped me a lot, and people here are great! I will come back regularly to see if i can be any help.

Thanks cridamour! Congrat to you too! You know what, I also got Michigan's admission last night and I just sent my application last week! Wow, Brussels, I went there few years ago, nice city! Alors tu connais parler français aussi :) Now your nickname makes sense.... cri d'amour :)

YA! :D Just got Cornell's admission letter by mail yesterday! :grad:This is like a dream comes true! On top of that, even though I didn't' apply for it, they offered me the teaching award!!! I am still waiting for Columbia's reply.... Does anyone know which program is better? Columbia's master of operations research or Cornell's master of operations and industrial engineering? And how about schools in general... Good luck to everyone! :) Sklamba

I haven't practiced my GRE for months... this is what I think ^^ 7. A----acceptance of contemporary forms of social behavior has misled a few into believing that values in conflict with the present age are for all practical purposes----. (A) casual.. reliable (B) superficial.. trenchant © complacent.. superseded (D) cautious.. redemptive (E) plaintive.. redundant

Hey everyone, I am a Canadian applying for US grad schools. I got stuck on this question of my application: Biographical information - Current visa type, and then there are choices like: Diplomatic A1, Dimplomatic A2, Temporary Vistor for business or please B1 etc. I really have no idea what to choose....:mad: One more thing, do Canadian also need some sort of VISA (I heard some form called I-29 or something like) to study in US? If I do, should I get it before or after being accepted? Thanks a lot in advance Sklamba

Yo Riteshn, I have the same problem, but after some search on the ETS site, I think I have found the answer for us. http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.1488512ecfd5b8849a77b13bc3921509/?vgnextoid=e7c72d3631df4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&vgnextchannel=88e4197a484f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD Yeah, I think we all agree that ETS site is not very user friendly :P Sklamba~!

Skukade: As goodgirl said, powerprep (aka PP) contains a question pool, so you could keep practicing with it for few times. It should give you an idea what GRE quant. asks for. Goodgirl: Right, RC is the most time consumming part of all. My strategy is to minimize the time spent on the other sections (ant., analogy, sc) to leave more time for RCs. Here is what I do for RCs, 1. Skim through the passage really quickly to get an idea of the text, and each paragraph's main idea. Pay extra attention to transition word such as: But, however, and words followed by ":". 2. Read the question. If the question has "in the line 21-30" then the answer is explicitly stated in the text. But if the question has words such as "suggest, imply, refer", then try to avoid answers that simply restates the passage; instead, go for the ones that deduced from the passage. Strategy for paper based test is also diff. from computer adaptive's. I personally prefer doing RCs on paper :P If you can get your hand on big book, get it! After solving all the RCs in the big book, you won't have any prob. with RCs. Good luck to both of you! SKlamba~!

Skukade: Oops, you're right, it's the 10th edition ^^" I have that one too. Not that I want to make you nervous, but those tests are the old "paper based" test. So in the real "CAT" GRE, you MIGHT encounter problems such as Standard deviation (As I said, you only need to know how the basic formulas, and that large SD means the data are spread out). Here are my suggestions: -Sove ETS 7 quant papers -> Good! Do them, get yourself familiar with the types of prob. -Barrons Quant -> I browsed through them, and found the guide complicates the problems for nothing. I personally do not recommend you to do it. -Revise all the formulae and concepts etc. -> Be careful of what you review... a lot of things learned at school will not be tested. Alright, I see something you are missing... Powerprep. I personally think it's the best way to gauge your current level. You could skip the AWA and Verbal part and do as many as Quant for your last min practice. Let me remind you that the 10th OG is good, but it's a bit different seeing questions on paper and on monitor....and you can also practice pacing with powerprep. Given that you have engineering background, you shouldn't worry too much about it...GRE CAT is quite lenient. The scores often turned out to be higher than expected!

Thanks to manwiththemisson and cridamour! good luck to u too! Skukade: Well, I think the best thing to do is to get an official guide, since most of the trigonometry questions need drawings... but in case you don't have time to get it, you need to know (for trigonometry): -area, volumes of circle and triangle, square -diagonal of square -the length ratio of the three common types of triangles (1,1,sqrt2),(3,4,5),(1,sqrt3,2) -Pythagorean theorem. etc. As you see, those are high school math... so, unless your major is not science or engineering related, you really don't need to study much, just make sure you have a good pacing. Just a quick reminder for you... there are few things that I had to remember for my quant. -sqrt2=1.414, sqrt3=1.732, sqrt5=2.236 -The formulas of Standard deviation, and a large SD value means the values are more spread out. -How to calculate combination and permutation -0 is not an integer, and it's even -0 and 1 are not prime numbers, 2 is the only even prime number Triton: Well, CAT=computer adaptive test, so I assume it's logical that the level of difficulty increases if you keep getting the right answers. But don't worry, ETS' definition for the word "difficult" is different from most of ours... So it happens that you find the second question the hardest one in the test. But if you met unsolvable ones, or one question requiring lots of time, take an educated guess.... like I said: I guessed 3 and still have 790, it wouldn't hurt to guess one right? :) Just pay extra attention to the graph questions... Goodgirl: pacing for verbal... umm, well, from Princeton Review's Crakcing GRE, they suggest the following pacing: If you are aiming for 600: 8Q (1st 10min), 9Q (2nd 10min), 13Q (3nd 10min) If you are aiming for 700: 9Q (1st 10min), 10Q (2nd 10min), 11Q (3nd 10min) If you are aiming for 800: 10Q (1st 10min), 10Q (2nd 10min), 10Q (3nd 10min) Well, honestly, I was just trying to keep 10 mins for every 10Q, but more time for reading passages, less for analogy, antonyms, and sentence completion. I make sure that I take ~30sec for each antonym, less than 1 min for each analogy. Best luck to you all!