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[agarci27]

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Hello everyone,
I will be taking my GRE for the first time in mid August and am starting to get a bit anxious so I was hoping for any advice. I need to make at least a 292 but of course I would like to get the highest score I can. Ive been building my vocabulary with flash cards for the verbal sections and completing GRE math practice questions I find online. I understand that well anything you do, the time you put into it determines the results but I am just looking for any tips from anyone who has taken it. I have about a month left of studying and have a job as well!
Thanks!

 

[13panda]

Hi,

I would start taking as many full practice exams as you can. This way you can build endurance and it will give you an idea of what you are scoring. Practicing a lot will get you used to the format and you won't be as stressed out the day of. Good Luck!

 

[okramango]

It's important to practice every type of question, in both the math and verbal sections. Any GRE prep book has practice questions from all of these different sections. I also agree that it's important to practice full tests, and time them, so that you can build your endurance. The GRE is a really long test and you have to be able to stay clear and sharp even after a few hours of high pressure. Also, ETS posts their essay prompts on their website, so you can practice doing timed essays with their prompts.

 

[deleted480308]

I got a 322 having not been in school for almost 10years (nontrad premed).....162 math the biggest problem I had here was forgetting some of my volume/area formulas particularly for circles and cylinders. The 160 verbal unfortunately I have no advice here since I really don't know what I got right or wrong. The major advice for test day is to not drink anything within an hour of the test starting...I was nervous and and drank way too much.

I view the GRE as a glorified SAT. I had low 1400's on the test 10 yrs ago. I've taken 2 years of college english, a statistics class, and a high school AP calculus class.

You can do this GRE thing, get a study book to calm your nerves and go crush it

 

[agarci27]

Thanks for all the help!

 

[pa3cia15]

I also have a question about the GRE.

I got 152 math, 148 verbal and 3 on the analytical which are really bad scores especially the analytical. So my plan is to retake the GRE in end of august so i can dedicate the whole month of august to GRE. but i plan on applying in the beginning of september so how would sending GRE scores work? should i send my previous scores or just wait for the new results? or should i just not retake the GRE?