Anyone know of any good GRE prep classes? The one at State is $599..... anyone know of any less expensive ones??

3/8/2006 4:28:49 PM

the best advice i can give you is to get the Kaplan Verbal and Kaplan Math books and do every problem in them and memorize every word you dont know in the back of the Kaplan verbal book. also, get very used to the computer format.

that's all i did for my exam and i did well enough to get into my choices

3/8/2006 4:31:44 PM

I tried the books, I need an actual class.

I took it today and totally bombed it. I mean BADLY.

3/8/2006 4:45:16 PM

no way

you need to use those cds that come with the books

they are absolutely more helpful than looking at the book

3/8/2006 4:53:08 PM

My problem is definitely the math section. I totally should have done better. That math was so 6th grade.

I need to take a class so I can ask questions- a book or CD won't do it.

3/8/2006 4:55:13 PM

the gre had several sample problems, a few practive exams, and many other free study tools it seemed like, if you are buying grades on a budget

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3/8/2006 5:07:52 PM

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"buying grades"

I totally feel that way about taking the class. All the prep stuff is so expensive- it's like I am buying GRE points.

3/8/2006 5:09:17 PM

Well the GRE was a waste of money for me... didn't get into grad school

3/8/2006 5:16:53 PM

Yah and that would be fabulous- all this time and effort and money (dang it is expensive to take the GRE!!!!) and then NADA, no grad school.

3/8/2006 5:21:43 PM

my GRE logic score was lower than most buisness majors(yes that bad). I hate those stupid logic game questions, If 3 people sit at a table and blah blah blah just shoot me. Somehow I still got into graduate school, guess they knew that a 3 hour test meant little when weighted against the 100+ hours of math/physics I took as an undergraduate. Fortunate for me.

3/8/2006 7:23:11 PM

dont take a GRE prep class. buy a couple of prep books and study vocabulary for a few months. once again, DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE CLASSES.

i studied for the verbal section for nearly a month, and spent about 4 days on the math section and i did really well.

3/8/2006 7:43:55 PM

my God I felt like I needed to go back to elementary school to learn math after that exam! What a loser I am that I am so bad at math

3/8/2006 9:38:07 PM

just freestyle that shit

3/8/2006 10:27:53 PM

It's a matter of putting in the practice time. Yeah, you can "ask questions" in a class (sorta) but what you really have to do is PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. Look at the problem til you figure out how to do it. If you're wrong, go back and look at it some more. Only after a few days should you go find someone to ask how to do it - the GRE is more about figuring out how to think about the math than any mysterious knowledge someone can just impart to you. If you didn't practice well enough, yeah, you probably bombed. If you just go sit in a class, you will not do any better what so ever. The only way to improve is through practice.

That's just my .02.

3/9/2006 12:15:18 AM

why are you taking the gre at age 19??

the only reason prep classes do any good is because they FORCE you to work on stuff. however, they're not worth the investment. i'm going with everyone else and voting for multiple books and cd-rom practices (they have old exams and examples).

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3/9/2006 1:01:37 AM

I just took the GRE for a second time on Mar. 7, did very well on it. My Quantitative score was significantly higher than Verbal b/c I thought that since I was a Humanities major I'd be set with no studying. I had Barron's GRE Prep book and just reviewed all the math formulas and theories for a couple of hours, so I'd suggest studying for both. I hate those damn passages you have to read and then answer questions, I can never focus long enough to read the whole thing. First time I took it, I did so-so, didn't study, was late b/c I couldn't find the place. Don't waste the money on the classes, unless you've got the extra $600. Did you get the CD the GRE people send you? I thought it helped. Ok, I'm done.

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3/9/2006 2:35:33 PM

^ Even if you don't get the CD in the mail, you can download the Powerprep program for free online. It's fabulous!

^^At an interview a couple weeks ago, one of the grad school candidate's couldn't go out to the bar the grad students had picked...because he was 19. 19! I just wanted to look at the kid and tell him to go be a little crazy for a few years before starting in on a PhD program.

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3/13/2006 5:30:58 PM

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" get very used to the computer format."

I'll have to agree with this ... I didn't answer like 5-6 questions on the math section well because I realized "oh crap, time is running out". You can't skip ahead and judge the difficulty of the questions either :/

Depending on which of the two sections is weaker, you'll need to study months ahead of time for it. If its verbal, make several hundred vocabularly cards and make it a HABIT to shuffle them and learn/review 20 a day. If its math, write down the formulas/problems from prep books similarly on the cards.

3/13/2006 6:10:54 PM

I got 800 in GRE's math with ease. Will tutor in this or any other undergraduate math course.

3/13/2006 10:24:25 PM

Thanks for all the advice! Well I got the Kaplan Math Prep book for GRE/GMAT. It looks a lot more manageable than I had thought. They really simplify the concepts to junior high level so it's easy to follow. I'm thinking a class might not be necessary at all. The book does really narrow down exactly what types of concepts you need to know.

I'm going to take it again in June and see what happens.

Fingers crossed!

Thanks again!

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3/15/2006 12:18:07 PM

That's a great book. The only supplement to it that I would suggest is going online and finding the rest of the right triangle tirplets and memorizing them too (remember 3-4-5 right triangles, etc?). Kaplan mentions most of them but leaves out some involving larger numbers like 11 and 17.

When you work problems, dont' write in the book. Write on a separate sheet of paper. Why? You should become accoustomed to how much you need to copy from screen to paper the day of the test. You don't want to feel like you have to write down everything - you'll run out of time.

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3/15/2006 11:52:44 PM

what is considered a good score on the gre?

also
what is a "good enough" score

3/16/2006 12:47:11 AM

it depends on what program you're going into, what school, ect.

on the GRE website, they have a section that lists averages for different schools and courses of study.

i made a 1270, 550 verbal 720 math, i was in the 73rd percentile on both

3/16/2006 9:28:58 AM

^^Schools basically care what your percentile is. Top cell and molecular bio programs want to see at least 70% and prefer above 80% on the math - that's what I applied for so that's all I know. Lots of schools publish the info on their admissions website but you may have to dig around for it.

3/16/2006 8:51:45 PM