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!

Just for fun 8. STUDY: LEARN:: (B) search: find cuz: the goal of "study" is to "learn". the goal of "search" is to "find" . TABLECTOTH: TABLE:: (D) sheet: mattress cuz: the function of "tablecloth" is to protect "table", so is the funciton of "sheet" to protect the "mattress" 15. NUMB: INSENSIBLE:: (B) burnish: lustrous "to numb" is render "insensible", similarly "to burnish" is to render "lustrous"

Triton: no prob. I hope I didn't confuse you... Skukade: For sure there will be few questions of trigonometry! But the good news is that GRE only tests basic concepts such as: Area, 3-4-5 ratio triangle, circle etc. I assumed that you didn't take a look at the official guide of GRE. But no worries, there are really just high school math....

thanks coolsamurai, shubha Triton: Well, I started studying few months ago, 5 months to be exact. Since English is my third language, my vocabulary at the time was just not sufficient to have a decent score in GRE (My very first practice GRE was ~400 in verbal) So I started by building up a solid vocabulary... First, I spent ~2 months studying Baron's master list using the "array" technique I found in this forum. I got to say it helped, but for me, it was not very efficient. I forgot most of the words after few days. Then I improved another technique my friend taught me (He had 700 in verbal) and that's how I really expended my vocabulary. I am not very good at description, but I will do my best. Basically, I DIY my own flashcards so I can view the definitions and sample sentences in a more convient way. First take a standard size paper, cut it in half. Take one of them, and use the ruler to draw a line like making a visible margin. So now, on each paper, you will have a left and a right side separated by the line. Then on the left side (outside the margin), I would write a new vocabualry, and on the right, the corresponding definition, a sample sentence, or even a GRE problem that has the word. When the left side is filled with new words (I can fit ~15-20 new words on each half of the sheet), then I fold the paper in a way so that I can only see the new words. I would bring these customized flashcard everywhere I go, and unlike the traditional flashcards, I could view the def. just bying opening the fold :) In the end, I amassed a stack of these, and memorized most of the words on Baron Master List. About the materials I used.... here is the list, and what I found useful -GRE OG 9th edition: Sample essay, sample GRE -Baron: Master List, the suggestions for reading passages. -Princeton Review Cracking GRE: Pretty useless I got to say... The essay part was interesting, and the pacing helped. -Illustrated Word Smart 1&2: I actually learned many words from them... -Wordsmart for GRE: Umm, it was alright... The sample sentence refreshed my memory. -Big Book: I bought it in Asia, and it helped me a lot.... Strongly recommended. -Powerprep: I did it few times, it helped me practice my pacing. Good luck :) Sklamba~!

Congrat. to you too! God I wish to have such a nice quant score like urs :) Best luck to you in the rest of ur application

Thanks Triton and Dkumar! Triton: Yes, as i wrote, there was ONE question on SD (for the comparison type of question). It was easy.... as long as you know the formulas, you can find the answer.

This is my third and the last GRE of my life ! 660V 790Q = 1450 YEAH! After two GREs, I was just not in the mood of redoing it for the third time. But since I already booked it long time ago, I thought of just giving it a last try. For the first time, my laziness did me good. First GRE (Paper Based): 620V 770Q AWA 4.5 Second GRE (CAT): 600V 750Q AWA 4.5 Last GRE (CAT): 660V 790Q AWA (don't know yet) It's a really funny experience... as I said, I did not really care about the result of this time, so I did not force myself typing the two essays (Now I regret), and I barely made an effort reading the 3 reading passages and just guessed the answers, and I got 660 in verbal! What the.... I can only say that the first few questions are CRUCIAL! From I think I missed my very first question in my second GRE, and even though the rest of that test were very easy, I only ended up with 600. So, be extra careful in your first questions.... Quant. was alright... i guessed 3 questions. I messed up my second GRE cuz I spent too much time on one of the questions. So if that ever happened to you, my advice is to guess like I did this time. (Just think of it this way: Hey, I guessed 3 and still have 790, it wouldn't hurt to guess one right?) One easy question on standard deviation, others were not too bad, you know, the usual algebra, trigonometry etc. I like Princeton Review's suggested pacing (15 min for first 9 questions, 15 min for the next 9 questions, and 15 for the rest of the 10 questions). AWA: T_T I should have done better if I knew my verbal and quant scores were going to turn out to be this high (Verbal is hard for me, since English is my third language)....anyway, it's all good. Now, it's time to finish my personal statement, and the rest of the application... Bye bye GRE! :P Sklamba~!

Damn, I didn't ^^" I kinda forgot which schools I selected at the end of the test.... T_T Is there a way to check??? Thanks a lot!

Hi Maths_bonn! Thanks a lot! I appreciate your help, especially the stats of MIT! I took a look at the page, I found that I meet their TOEFL requirement, and GRE verbal... and you're absolutely right about my Quant. score. T_T Although I am not planning to apply for MIT (I think it's way over my head), I will take ur advice and go for a retake.... hopefully this time both verbal and quant will be higher :) Thx again. Sklamba

Noesis, according to the official ETS website, the score should be out on the 26th. Maybe you should call ETS.... How do you know your score is not out? What kind of answer did you get from the automated system?

Thx to manwiththemission and long76! vglong: Yes, the score is out, I checked on Sat morning ~8:30am (Eastern time). Wish you luck!