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GRE

• 07.19.08

  GRE Books - Kaplan or Barron’s

  
  GRE (2)

  Confused about choice to book to study for GRE Exam? Here's my take on the 2 of best choice of books available for GRE Exam preparation. I have used both Barron's and Kaplan and have seen friends who used only Kaplan and Barron's along with ETS GRE materials. Kaplan or Barron's GRE Book? Using both books to prepare for the test and I find that Kaplan's practice tests and exercises are not as challenging as the Barron's GRE. Kaplan provides really good advice and strategies but I think that Barrons would give you a better feeling of what the test is like ...
  
  
• 07.18.08

  GRE - Practice Verbal, feed hungry people

  
  GRE (1)

  Playing FreeRice to keep up with your verbal practice while you're focusing on the math. It's addictive, and you feed hungry people in developing nations. http://freerice.com/index.php. I have put together a page exclusively for GRE Exam, which will include Frequently Asked words in GRE, strategies to improve GRE score, ..
  
  
• 07.03.08

  Top 12 words in GRE Verbal

  
  GRE (1)

  Scoring more than 400+ in GRE Verbal is a challenge, but following the strategies created by GRE Experts like Barron's, Kaplan, ETS, will definitely help GRE Test takes score more. Also, it takes patience and practice to improve your score. If you make a mistake in GRE practice test, time must be spent to analyze what went wrong and how to avoid such mistake again and make a note of mistakes made and improve vocabulary skills for every new word you come across. IFollowing are the top 12 GRE words from Kaplan verbal workbook. Kaplan GRE have done lots of research in ...
  
  
• 04.21.08

  How to Improve your GRE Score

  
  GRE (0)

  Follow the steps listed below for preparing for GRE Exam. I'm sure it will increase your score. 1) There are lots of free online GRE practice Tests available. Take one of the test without any distractions and see how you score in Verbal and Quantitative. 2) For the questions you have answered wrong, make sure you find out why you selected the wrong answer and find how to solve it right. If you happen to learn a new formula or words, make a note of it. you could use a separate notebook, one for Verbal and one for Maths. (Top 50 words ...
  
  
• 01.18.08

  University for Low GRE Score <1000 ( v350, q600)

  
  GRE, Universities (7)

  I was browsing universities for Masters program Construction Management, but I happened to find a decent school for Computer Science, Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, Electrical, Telecommunications engineering and Construction Management. If you have GRE score less than 1000 and looking for decent university to study, then Southern Polytechnic State University will be one of the good choice. Computer Science Requirements: GRE : 350V + 600Q with higher scores considered to compensate for a lower GPA; GMAT has ALREADY been taken recently, official GMAT scores may be considered. Alternative for low GRE Score: A student holding ...
  
  
• 11.22.07

  Reader’s Question : GRE Twice and Low Score, Visa Rejected Twice, what next?

  
  F1 Visa, GRE (2)

  I'm responding to a comment from the article Low GRE Universities, F1 Visa Tips and more. The questions was 730 gre score is it enough or shud i take gre again and for English language proof i m showing ielts (band score of 6.0) help me bcoz i screwed visa twice before in July bcoz of my gre score i think but they never asked for scores …….for avoiding risk i m preparing for gre i booked it on 5th of Nov and Got I-20’s from Northwest polytechnic ,Western Michigan and Bridgeport ,but i have rejected twice for Bridgeport ,so shud ...
  
  
• 10.01.07

  Low GRE Score and High Profile University Admission : Readers comment

  
  FAQ's, GRE (0)

  I'm responding to a comment about the article Secret of Getting admission with Scholarship. Comment: I'd disagree with the part where you said "Why would someone has to waste few hundred dollars in college application fee and GRE and TOEFL score forwarding, application documents courier fee, when grad school admission is not sure." -> You haven't at all factored in the case that a university where you will very easily get into (with the exception of some like USC), is simply not worth it? If you're considering spending a sizeable portion of your savings on graduate school, why should it not be on ...
  
  
• 09.27.07

  Changes to GRE in November: Sample Questions

  
  GRE (2)

  Changes to the GRE questions from November 2007 is not a complete revamp of GRE exam. New changes are gradually introduced to asses the ability of the students planning to study Graduate courses. Starting in November you will see maximum of one question either in Verbal or Math section. Which means students appearing for Graduate Record Exam will not see more than one question from the new question pattern in GRE. New questions will not affect your scores. I'm not sure if you guys were aware of the fact during 2002 when I took GRE, before AWA section for 6.0 point ...
  
  
• 09.16.07

  Double your Admission chances even with Low GRE

  
  College Admission, GRE (4)

  Graduate School Admission with Scholarship, who doesn't want that? I strongly encourage to read the previous posts about Graduate Schools Admission and other related posts by following the link at the end of the post. Most of posts about Graduate School and College admission process are inter-linked. By reading the posts in order, will give an overview of the action steps I'm talking about entire university admission process. Low GRE : No Problem Guaranteed Admission to Graduate Schools : One Magical Idea The Secret of Getting Admission with Scholarship,was about students who have GRE score more than 1200. That doesn't mean students with ...
  
  
• 09.15.07

  Reader Question : GRE and TOEFL Score forwarding

  
  College Admission, FAQ's, GRE (0)

  During the chat session, I had many questions asked about Internet Cost, Cell phones, Graduate School search and college selections for their profile. It was interesting to talk to blog readers. One of the question I was asked frequently was about GRE and TOEFL score report forwarding to graduate school and to specific department within the grad school. Reader Question : I'm reappearing for TOEFL on 5th of October and I'm sending my graduate school application to 8 universities by end of next week for Spring 2008. Is it fine to send TOEFL score report afterwards? If you read the post about ...
  
  
• 09.04.07

  Low GRE : No problem

  
  College Admission, GRE, Universities (30)

  This post will definitely help student who have applied for U.S. University admission. I saw few of them asking help in short listing universities and lots of queries on admission chances when GRE score is less than 1000. I want to reiterate the fact that GRE score is not the only major factor for admission decision.There are many factors that are taken into consideration by the Graduate Admission Committee. Some of the factors are GRE Score TOEFL Score Academic Percentage Recommendation Letters Statement of Purpose Academic Projects Papers Presented Extra-curricular Activities Certification Courses Also, you need to consider the fact that, its business for University and Education for students. They ...