GRE is done, although my scores give the impression that English may not be my first language (by the way, English is pretty much my only language except for French from school). I think I may retake that wretched exam to improve my verbal score, but overall I am pretty happy with how it turned out.
For any of you that may read my blog and are also about to take the GRE, I highly suggested doing as many timed practice exams as you can. I nearly ran out of time on both the quantitative and verbal sections, and had to rush the last 7-8 questions of each.
As far as study guides go, I recommend any of the Princeton Review books. Cracking the GRE is a good overall book, but the 1014 GRE Practice Questions give you a much better idea of what specific types of questions are on the exam. Taking a prep course is probably better though, but I didn't have that kind of money to spend. Also, special triangles are your friends.
That's all for now. I need to catch up on the last week or so of economics blogs.
What have others advised you regarding verbal gre? i was told to basically neglect it -- as a result, i did not prep for verbal at all (really, i studied verbal for 0 minutes). nailed 800 on the quantitative on the math for my troubles though.
ReplyDeletei'm not saying my experience/placement is optimal, but aside from the toefl for int'l students, i was always told to basically forget about the verbal.
Yeah, I basically disregarded studying for the verbal section. I split studying up to about 10% verbal and 90% math. I think the thing that set me back the most was actually the time limit, so for that reason I may try retaking it. I'm happy with my quant score, but wouldn't mind 800 instead, and I think sometimes the verbal score can factor into how some departments evaluate funding and whatnot (so I've heard/read).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, these tests are so silly. I just want to study economics, not standardized testing skills.