dipesh

suja, prior to inviting do ask them how'd they like saliferous food!...some foreigners do like Indian dishes for their spices mainly.:) appreciated. [sorry pal.]

come on paggs, gone nuts!:whistle: i don't think suja liked it anyway, she has already edited her post. saw it! @suja, good done.

@suja, yup... as far as my memory goes (though not far, its legs are short perhaps:p), we seem to be new to each other...welcome. am ur friend. be mine. :)

@Parag, great!...so humor has intellect! :tup: @Manasi, nice to see u 'gain. Here goes something to activate the brain cells. 1. man ----------- board Ans. = man overboard 2. stand ----------- ----i Ans. = I understand got the drift? Let's try a few now & see how you fare ? 3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/g/ Ans. = reading between the lines 4. ---r road ---a ---d Ans. = cross road 5. cycle ------cycle ------------cycle Ans. = tricycle 6. t -----o -----w -----n Ans. = dow ntown 7. le / / vel Ans. = split level 8. 0 ------------- M.D. Ph.D. Ans. = two degrees below zero 9. knee! ------------ light Ans. = neon light (knee on light) 10. ii ii ---------- O O Ans. = circles under the eyes 11. dice ------dice Ans. = paradise (remember high school chemistry...the ortho,meta,para positions around a benzene ring in organic chemistry). 12. ground --------------- feet feet feet feet feet feet Ans. = six feet underground 13. he's / himself Ans. = he's by himself 14. ecnalg Ans. = backward glance 15. death / life Ans. = life after death 16 THINK Ans. think big ! ! And the last one is what made me missing all of you........... .. 17 ababaaabbbbaaaabbbbababaabbaaabbbb.... Ans. long time no 'c'(see)

Well hiting the block after more than 3 months.Don't know whether anybody still recognizes me. Still humor can hardly be resisted to share. So here goes. ---- 1.A little boy is leaving school at the end of the day. As he strolls along the sidewalk, a car pulls up to the curb, and a man winds down the window. "Hey, kid, I've got candy in my car. Hop in and I'll give it to you." "No. I'm not going to." The boy walks on. Further down the road, the car pulls over again. "Hey there kid, if you get in my car, I'll give you all this candy, and a big bottle of cola. How about it?" "No way! Now leave me alone!" The boy walks on, quickening his pace. The car again pulls over beside him. "Look, kid, I've got a puppy at home you'd love to see. Get in and I'll take you there. You can have all the candy and the cola on the way. What d'you say to that?" The boy is getting agitated. He stops walking, and leans down to the car window. "Look, I don't care what you promise me Dad. I'm NOT riding in your Lada!" -- 2.Lenin is dying, and talking things over with Stalin, his successor. "The one worry I have," says Lenin, "is this: will the people follow you? What do you think, comrade Stalin?" "They will," says Stalin, "they surely will." "I hope so," says Lenin, "but what if they don't follow you?" "No problem," says Stalin, "then they'll follow you." -- 3. One night the captain of a tanker saw a light dead ahead. He directed his signalman to flash a signal to the light which went..... 'Change course 10 degrees South.' The reply was quickly flashed back... 'You change course 10 degrees North.' The captain was a little annoyed at this reply and sent a further message..... 'I am a captain. Change course 10 degrees South.' Back came the reply.... 'I am an able-seaman. Change course 10 degrees North.' The captain was outraged at this reply and send a message.... 'I am a 240,000 tonne tanker. CHANGE course 10 degrees South!' Back came the reply....... 'I am a LIGHTHOUSE. Change course 10 degrees North!'

welcome mates!

biotechwiz: saw u in just-finished-gre forum. Congrats on ur score nd best for d apps. joshiharsh2000: deeply sorry for being so late!...but its working now. may be u tried when our master Erin was transferring things to www.urch.com server...it no more shows a blank screen upon clicking on .pdf file. HTH

CONGRATS BLASE!........great wishes for the apps.[clap] ---------- ******deepest apologia for missing you earlier...but thought 'better late than never'********:doh:

congratz vasan!...best for d apps. dipesh

Thnx Sangfroid n congratz!...best for the apps. -an old friend perhaps!:)

gauravg, plz post ur essay in GRE AWA: Analysis of an Issue forum...there u can interact n get ur issue rated by your fellow mates preparing with you. thnx.

Congrats Parag! :tup: Get a real good strong-in-composition SOP for urself...all my best wishes for ur apps.

Manisha, U hv friends out here n collective prayers do bring results...dont worry...u will get just fine in a few days n will be talking to us just like another day...champions don't loose heart!...all the best for quick recovery! and return to the playfield to be with us. dipesh

Hi Swapnil, thnk u...plz dont thnk that degree from very reputed institute controls all threads of good admit pal!...yes, i know good instiute matters...but as far as, if at all, impressing (by default) the prof. out there or making him thnk that the applicant is well versed wth lots of academic thngs..bcoz a reputed institute must hv a good infrustructure...but i don't thnk there really any substitute for good academic records...bcoz even if someone's insitute is not so reputed, good academics means the candidate has been serious to his academic n is capable of handling academic thngs well...if he's nt well versed wth one/two advanced thng (like using advanced instruments) the prof can train u and good academics ensure that the person uses his training to full advantage...keeping myself in a US Prof.'s position i cld tell u only this. prepare well...may be u'll get a better admit than me...life is queer with its twist n turns...love ur destiny whatsoever, man!:) all my good luck to u...

thnk u Illusionz! neway i thought i wd see u in 'Just Finished my GRE' forum an week earlier!...when's ur test! Good Luck for ur D'day!

yes prusd.

manasi, yes i did. u may try one or more of the following: 1. ALL ABOUT WORDS - Nunberg n Rosenblum...nice book hving very good quality out-barrin wrds wth stories to remember them easily. 2. THE SYNONYM FINDER - J I Rodale...this book wrkd like a thesaurus...it was very useful to me particularly for learning uncommon meanings of common words (both in/out barron). 3. Word of the Day free e-mails from www.m-w.com (very good), www.wordsmith.org, www.dictionary.com, www.onelook.com... these send one wrd per day...but m-w.com keeps all wrd of the past two months (see WOD archives) n onelook.com's archive keep last one yrs of wrds used in newspapers, books etc...u can choose from these wrds which u may thnk can be used for making ant/ana qs and cld b encountered in RCs...as RCs r nothing but edited versions of some newspaper articles or journal ones or analytical books etc. 4. Testmagic threads: http://www.www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28792 http://www.www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24394 http://www.www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12666 the 3rd thread contains good (very useful in GRE context) nonBArron wrds...as that is devoted only for non-barron ones...if u like u can revive the thread also...i saw that thread after completing All About Words n found lots of 'em known... if u want only one/two of these.. i'd say get...ALL ABOUT WORDS n the 3rd thread...if possible THE SYNONYM FINDER. I looked in the dictionary sometimes...but for those wrods whose illustrations were given (pictures)...that way casually one knows n remebers a few wrds too...this i did very desultorily. i crammed around 2500 non-barron wrds...but bczo i liked it n i had a month's time extra (beyond my 3-months of test prep)...so plz understand u can get Super-High GRE score w/o going for all these. HTH dipesh

Hi Spring, Within my ken, an unidentified section means it may/may not count in ur final score...but for that unidentified section will always follow prevailing CBT format...Q 28q 45min and V 30q 30min...no exception to it...if it comes in the format (Q&V)as u hv said, it will definitely be Unidentified Research Pretest Section...it will never be counted in ur score...more so it will be optional...the first page direction of that section will contain in Bold Underlined letters...no reponses in this section will count in final test score. So don't worry! It may happen that u get 2 Q and 2 V (undesignated)...but those will be according to prevailing CBT format for sure!...only thing in that case will be u wont know which of the two sets of each iss gonna count...one will be dummy...so in that case u hv to answer all 4 sections as if all r going to count...that's all. Don't u worry!...The format u hv said is never gonna face u other than Reseach/Survey Section (Thank u for helping ETS! etc.). Good Luck! Dipesh

Paragjibhai...Namaste!...apke imtehan ke liye hardik shubhkamnaye!:) good luck for ur D'day! Dipesh

Thank you Anand. for BB mat. u can visit www.downdowndown.net I can assure u everything there is BB...but BEWARE!...many of the OAs there dont match wth BB's...Hang around in these forums...u'll definitely get the correct OA for the one u may get confused wth...the site may be in Korean Language...so u can translate it thru' google or simply click on any entry in Korean Language...the exercise that will follow will be in Eng. anyway. Good Luck! yah, am trying dig into the forums real deep!:)

Dimas, actually i don't remember accurately the wordings of ant. qs in actual test. Neverthess, perhaps u shdn't expect any repeat from anything too anyway...The qestion wrd is more often than not familiar...expect atleast that the answer-choices will necessarily be paraphrased...this practice mat. helped me a lot...particularly bcoz it also contains a lot of puzzling ones. And ETS dont pose in front u words beyond these words...may be one/two in ne particular test session...also this list helps in learning few newer words too...like for me a few in this mat. were ESTIVAL, MATUTINAL etc. That's it! Manasi, antonyms level in real test was as I expected to be...Some needed second thought due to closely related answer-choices, the question words didnt seem novel to me...since, i was not getting the percentile standing of that particular q while answering i cldn't guess whether it was tough/easy... But one thing I can assure you...the antonym qs like STYMIE/FOSTER/APPRISE etc. which we had discussed here earlier seemed very weird to me after the test...as test answer-choices were really rational. Only one novel wrd I remember is SMARMY, that too in anlogy...NO!...I don't think an ETS framed Antonym Question will give you blues...for me all question wrds were known...bcoz i also looked at non-barron words...So, that's it!...u can cram a few out-barron word if u hv time...no harm in it...but dont do that anticipating w/o doing so u'll get blues.

have uploaded a collection of 1235 ANTONYMS problems, in Gre Analogies and Antonyms forum...see if that helps neone of you. Good Luck! :tup:

QUID PRO QUO ( a fitting return) Time is just ripe for me returning favors done to me by nice n lively TM. Here goes one attachment (ANTONYMS PACK) having 1235 antonyms problems. Each line in it is one antonym question. First word is the question word followed by five answer-choice wrods. The letter at the end of each line is the OA for that particular question in that line. another thread that contained great resource of antonyms of most of all barron words are here in thi thread...originally posted by attrc. Download 'totallist.zip' from there. http://www.www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28280 see if these help! BEST OF THE BEST TO ALL TMIANS. p.s. will try to post some SC, ANALOGY, RC materials if possible. Good Luck! ANTNOYMS PACK.pdf

Hi Dave, IMO, answering first 5 may/may not pay enough for Q800 (if it pays, it won't be surprising i thnk)...but it certainly wont let u score a good percentile standing, even if Q800 u get. So try to increase that accuracy level upto atleast another 5... that'll pay u rich dividends i thnk. for Q600, first 5 right should pay ideally. dipesh

no Dimas, as far as my test is concerned i didn't find any from Kaplan, BB, PP, Cambridge, Princeton, Peterson's, Barron's and Arco's. ETS is really ensuring that match does not happen perhaps!