How to Prepare for the GRE

[rjh58]

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Hi,

I am interested in applying overseas as well as in Canada to Vet School. Anyone have study plans and question bank ideas for the GRE. Any advice from those who have scored well on the test would be helpful.

Also, what scores are vet schools looking for on the GRE, specifically australia and new zealand. Anyone at these schools feel free to reply to let me know how they did it.

Deanna

 

[birdvet2006]

The Princeton Review course is good. I took it, and didn't do as well as I had expected when I took the exam - but I would have taken it again and again until I scored well. I don't think I would have scored as well without the prep course.

However, Glasgow university (and Murdoch or Melbourne at that time) did not require the GRE and I was accepted to all 3 without having to submit my GRE scores. I don't know if things have changed for Australia, but I'm pretty certain that Glasgow still does not require the GRE.

 

[JIKJen124]

I had a similar experience with the Princeton Review. It helped, but not that much. If you've survived all your chem and physics in your pre-reqs, your math is probably in good shape. The verbal is always harder than you think, so get yourself a deck of vocab cards and start working on them!!

When I take it again next summer when I'm closer to applying, I'm planning on getting a a tutor. I fear the GRE will be the only hole in application, so I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure that doesn't happen.

Good luck!

The Princeton Review course is good. I took it, and didn't do as well as I had expected when I took the exam - but I would have taken it again and again until I scored well. I don't think I would have scored as well without the prep course.

However, Glasgow university (and Murdoch or Melbourne at that time) did not require the GRE and I was accepted to all 3 without having to submit my GRE scores. I don't know if things have changed for Australia, but I'm pretty certain that Glasgow still does not require the GRE.

 

[PAThbrd]

I used www.number2.com to prepare for the GRE. They have ACT, SAT and GRE prep on there. Specifically I used the "vocab builder" part of the site and a couple of the words were actually on the GRE when I took it last month. I couldn't really tell you how the math does in terms of preparation; I didn't use it because I wasnt worried about my math score. I also used ARCO's GRE prep book for practice tests. I believe it had 6 full length tests in it, of which I did 4 or 5, which was really helpful for knowing the format and instructions, and great review because it gave you the answers and explained it at the end and told you approximately what your score would be.

I recently talked to admissions at Penn, my in state school where Im applying this year. 580 is their average for verbal and quantitative is about 690. He said if your scores are going to be a little lopsided, its better to be high on math and low on verbal (which mine were 🙂 ). Penn doesnt look at the analytical writing at all.

Hope this helps!

 

[Boxsterluv]

I bought a used Kaplan book to prepare for the GRE, just make sure that you get one from the last 3 years and that the CD is still in it. The CD helps a lot, it gives you a diagnostic test and then prepares a little study guide for the things that you need to work on. It helped a lot, I think my score would have been quite a bit lower without it.

 

[chris03333]

Hi,

I am interested in applying overseas as well as in Canada to Vet School. Anyone have study plans and question bank ideas for the GRE. Any advice from those who have scored well on the test would be helpful.

Also, what scores are vet schools looking for on the GRE, specifically australia and new zealand. Anyone at these schools feel free to reply to let me know how they did it.

Deanna

I took the Kaplan course and it helped a lot(expensive though). Also ETS (company that makes the GRE) actually sells practice books which include old test questions. I would highly recommend buying that (It was like $40 or so when I bought it 3 years ago.)
Chris

 

[HeartSong]

What helped me the most was "Guru's GRE Wordlist". It's available for free download, just enter the name in a search engine and you can find it. I had flashcards and study books, but the Guru wordlist helped me the most. It has something like 3,000 words and you can study the words and meanings and then take a quiz. And you can seperate words from known or unknown.