/sci/ - Science & Math

You will need to review the babby math on the GRE.
Vocab is a crapshoot, No way to study for that many obscure words.
Look up the kinds of stuff they are looking for on the writing section.

Test isnt bad at all. Nothing compared to the FE goddamn.

I took it to get into an engineering MS program, then a PhD program. I did below the average for all the schools I applied for. 730Q, 650V, 4.0W.

I wish I had done the math drills in a prep book and used the technique of getting the first 5-6 questions right to increase my score. I took it twice ad got 730 both times which pissed me off.

>>4362850
Yes, the FE exam sucked. I took General II as an environmental engineer and guessed on a full 2/3 of that second half of the test.

>>4362852
isn't it $150 to take that shit, too?

>>4362850
yeah i'm going back through all my maths books... hellooo probability

i'm glad there's no calc on the test... but the masters degree i want is nothing but calc... not sure how to feel

>>4362856
I did environmental engineering too. I dont think I guessed on quite that many but I finished 40 minutes before everybody else and passed.

>>4362857
that's not much when someone with a masters can make at least $60,000 right after graduating

>>4362857
Yeah, it's a lot of money and was $140 when I took it. I improved on the verbal the second time, but did the same on the quant.

>>4362867
Miraculously I still passed because I did well on the first part.

GRE is the easiest graduate admissions test out there. The math is so easy that even a perfect score on it still only puts you in like the 95th percentile. Verbal is a lot harder, but it can be studied for.

If you want a brutal admissions test look at the MCAT. It's essentially a final exam on your entire pre-med courseload (gen chem, orgo, bio, physics, and of course verbal because why the fuck not) and is so fucked up difficult that in 20 years no one has yet to get a perfect score on it.

>>4362942
>no one has yet to get a perfect score on it.
so I guess there are no perfect doctors. what a shame.

So I am actually fairly stoned (first year of grad school is stressful, gotta relax) so I am not going to read the whole thread to make sure this isn't redundant but I scored fairly well (both catagories above 90% percentile and like a 5 or a 5.5 (out of 6 i believe) on the essay) and enjoyed studying for it because I made it a competitive with another grad school hopeful roommate.

So for the verbal section I would suggest getting a "Kaplan 800 level book" I hate the whole fucking Kaplan thing as much as anyone else who didn't pay for an MCAT score and go to medschool (thats right fuck you, the MCAT is easy) but this book is seriously helpful. It gives you only the hardest problems, so it makes the real test look fucking easy (think using a metal donut before going up to bat in little league) It also gives you some helpful hints for when you don't know any of the definitions and you can use intuition to try and figure it out, and since all the sample questions are so difficult you don't know any of the definitions and you can then practice their techniques (which helped me alot).

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>>4363020
>I am not going to read the whole thread
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go fuck yourself.

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I would do some vocab memorization, if only as a brain exercise. You probably wont run into more than word or two you learned (even if you learn a thousand) but its good for you as a person to learn 1000 4 syllable archaic words. It makes you a more articulate person.

For the math (which has supposedly changed since I took it) I did some practice tests to get a feel for it and then went to a calc professor at my UNI and had him give me every "tip and trick for basic trig, algebra, factoring, etc..." So I just relearned all my triangle angle associations and rules to easily check divisibility etc... and practiced my with practice tests.

But the single thing that helped me the most..... was taking realistic practice tests in diverse locations.

Seriously. I took ~5 practice tests (with my score improving about 40 points each one culminating in an even bigger raise for the actual test, I know it was unbelievable, mostly luck). I took them in different rooms each time, to minimize mind wandering and to diassociate the test from space so that when I took it in the unfamilar office it would seem familiar. I took them in real test conditions (no breaks, dead quiet, no calc, timed, etc.) I also took the 2 practice tests you can take via the program you download from ETS (dont quote me on this, the test has changed) but the interface of that program was nearly the same as the test one and it felt very similar in difficulty. I think that was a very good metric of real test performance.

>>4363026

so stoned I tunneled through it. Didn't even look to see how long it was, nor did I scroll.

I am not that big of a prick, but I am that ripped.

>>4363029
>taking practice tests in various locations
genius