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Magicc:
Let me interject here. Everyone seems to have an opinion, even on matters they know nothing.

Did you take the PRESSID qualifying tests? The results are displayed at the end of your test.

The test result is combined with your O level results - 70% and 30% respectively.

You can calculate your score and know if you made the grades or not. The pass mark for the second edition was about 66%.

The PRESSID scholarship was the one of the most transparent exercises ever carried out by the Nigerian government.

Unfortunately, a session of the country consistently outperform another session since no Federal character assurance, only merit.

I had many friends that made the 2015 list and these scholars were never sponsored.

Merit in Nigeria died on the altar of Federal character. It is high time everyone grew at his or her own pace.

hadigirei:
I used check this thread for update but its turning into something else

From now on. I will just be checking the ptdf site. Shikenan.

DMainMan:
Nice one. The bad governance had made youths to be brainwashed thinking this is a favour. All countries in the world send their students on scholarship. I had different developed counties as my classmates with sole aim of learning new ideas and developing their countries further. After their studies, all students went home except we Nigerians and Ghanians huzzling to earn more money because no where to be fixed.

Scholarships is very good if there is a good structure. All scholars should b given employment in universities, agencies and research institution to impact Nigerians and the government should be thankful for this. Graduating scholars certificates and transcripts should be sent to the Government who gave scholarship and returned to scholars when they report home. That is d norm. However, the reverse is d case in Nigerians whereby 80% of the scholars are unemployed and have forgotten what they learnt.

The main reason y Nigerian government are giving scholarship is to give back to their godfathers and achieve federal character through this means. This is y Pressid was curbed since only d highest ranking candidates gets it thereby Northern states were not included due to their poor performance therefore scrapped. Our leaders are not ready to make Nigeria better.

YorubaMuslims:
Our future generation will suffer, suffer and suffer,
They will lay curses upon on us,

Mining of any natural resources is illegal in China and it's death sentence if anyone is caught taking natural resources there, we are selling out what we inherited from nature, those mineral resources have been there for thousans, millions, hundred millions of years but we are going to waste it within just hundred years, maybe we think the world will end very soon,

I pity the future of Black Africans, no foundation for them, some morons here are happy that mineral resources have been discovered/ maybe God put it there for them to sell it and buy food and other stuffs,

African leaders refused to invest in science and technology but they want to have very new technology produced,

We will trade our natural resources for technologies, when it finishes we will become slaves automatically,
Nigerians don't see anything wrong allowing the Chinese to come to our forest and cut our trees and then take it to their land and produce stuffs, they cut down trees that have been there for more than 500 years. China is the country that have the largest forests in the world but still protect it,

We need to get Biafra and protect our world

usqoh:
I think PTDF are intentionally delaying. Many people will be thrown to their Partner university in Brasil, China and Germany for overseas and Local universities.

To avoid unnecessary uproar, hence the cause of the delay to force you go to the schools with joy since u have no option. It could also be they are manipulating and adjusting those who will go to UK, USA, AUSTRALIA OR CANADA.

holarwhaley2:
Hello house, please how do I get to JKK from Ojota bus stop. My GRE is on 23rd of Aug. Hope to share my success story soon.

Danialuone:
Madam the unity of Nigeria is not negotiable and it is settled....understood

tizentos:
I gave my GRE test on 17th of August( last Thursday). Here is a short transcript of how it went.

There was an accident at Ketu-Maryland road that very morning, so, I got to the centre 30 minutes late. When I got there,I knew is either I'm allowed to take the test or not. The latter was about to happen, "as in, d guy don write lateness on top my name",I had to change my rapport to Yoruba maybe he will understand better as in " tiwa tiwa",$205 can't waste like that. After subtle pressing, he directed me to his boss chilling in one corner in the test room, as d guy saw me, I told I knew I was late, he just pleaded to d junior officer to please attend to me. Na so I do data capture, read one trope compliance text and so on. After that, I was directed to seat 37. Oya to d next section
..

Before clicking anything, I had to bring my thoughts together, so I clicked ,clicked and clicked. The issue essay was about student choosing subject that interest them rather than choosing the one that leads to job. Kaplan really helped in terms of essay organization so it was pretty easy. Argument essay was okay, I was able to detect the flaws and used Kaplan method again.

Second section was verbal, it has always been an issue, so was already prepared for any surprises. I pace better in TC, SE and short passages during prep, which I first attempted before attempting the long passage(it was damn long).

3rd section was quant, having an engineering background, it was not too hard, but didn't really pace well,the questions were really technical. I spent more time on each question cuz I haven't really entered my "avatar state", deciphering the word problems was arduous.

Now another verbal, its difficultly was like the first ,so I knew I preformed averagely(9-12/20) as I usually do in prep. Didn't ignore the long passage at first, I attempted the questions orderly. I'm kind of adaptive in my approach to the verbal section.

**10 minutes break, was really enervated, asked the officer to allow me get water in my bag but he refused, he said test takers are not allowed to get their bag until after the test. I just jejely went back to my seat knowing the next two sections will be hell**

5th section was Quant, I saw some difficult questions,compound interest in one QC question, "I use sense answer am". I was asked to find the area of a tilted shape in a xy-coordinate,couldn't find a reference point, I just ignored it. Data interpretation was okay. Still very thirsty, I couldn't think well at first but I garnered my inner strength with some motivational Bible verse and moved on.

Now verbal for d last section, I knew dis one can't be the experimental section, " throat don dry already". The TC/SE was okay, the long passage is just two long paragraphs, not really difficult. I extrapolated that the previous verbal was not very good or at the same level,but I tried to answer the questions very carefully, I even had like one and the half minute to review some marked questions.

I was very scared, I couldn't look at the screen cuz I'm not convinced with my performance. So I clicked on report scores, "I open eyes saw a confirmation message, I just vex click confirm".

Verbal : 152
Quant: 160

I was surprised cuz I wasn't in my ideal mind throughout the test, but I can not but to thank God.

These were my mock test scores;

Diagnostic test (Powerprep 1) : V142 Q154
After a month(Powerprep 2): V138 Q156 ( I knew I had to upgrade my prep)

Some weeks before test:

Manhattan test: V148 Q158
Princeton test: V149 Q159 AWA:4.5

I was really pissed with my petty mistakes on quant so I knew I just have to be super careful on the test day to hit 160+

Three days to test
Powerprep 2: V148 Q158
Magoosh test : V150 Q159
Powerprep 1(verbal only): 154
Powerprep 1(Quant only): 164

This is my recommendation:

Kaplan is very good for essay organization, Magoosh's technique on logical fallacy will help your argument essay. Make sure you read sample essays on ets verbal official guide.

Manhattan 5lb book to solve Quant questions(it was already late before I discovered this book) and watch magoosh videos for techniques and tricks. Manhattan strategy book also tried for long passages (as for me).

Magoosh video on verbal generally is okay, practice with their verbal question set. If you don't have access to Magoosh account, Kaplan online verbal question bank is also okay.

For vocab, Magoosh common words(I-VI);its on quizlet. other vocab gotten from articles and questions are about 300 words. Barron 333 high frequency word, some of the words are familiar, I just filtered the unknown words out and studied like one third of it few days to test day. Altogether, I studied like 500+ words. Vocabulary.com is very good to checkout the meaning of words in context, which is substantial to your vocab learning journey.

In coda, the ets official guide for verbal and quantitative plus the official guide for general test are perfect, plus Powerprep 1 and 2. Powerprep 2 is a real test for verbal ,if you can perform well on Powerprep 2 verbal, then you're good.

Please bear with, the post is long but I know it will help future test takers just as this thread's forefathers have done and have helped us. Thanks for reading

Regards.

#teamFall2018

Episteme2:
Chai! This isn't fair. Whether ones name is on the list or not, one ought to have known ones fate by now. I think our patience has been stretched beyond the elastic limit. It's a pity that our leaders are not responsible to us. They throw shits at us and we gladly accept them. Nobody dares question the ugly status quo and to think that some of us make excuses for them is sickening. It's obvious that all is not well and probably the list is yet to be compromised to accommodate all the interested parties satisfactorily, hence the delay.
Oh! PTDF, pity for us. Nah beg we dey beg.

Sharles:
Masters student, I will wait for my admission letter. How long does it take before one receive admission letter.

Sharles:
Good evening my fellow Nigerians. I just got admission mail from university of idaho for sring 2018. Please I want to ask how will I know if was giving any kind of funding.? Thanks

vinnyvince:
The time is 5 O'clock.

Kirusky4life:
Good evening all. I was scheduled for Gre general test today. but because of technical issues from ets, I was not checked in. The TCA said ets wl reschedule me since it was not my fault. please is there anything I can do to facilitate the rescheduling?

comey2020:
Who ask you to commit your money when you are even sure whether you are successful or not. You guys just want to rush

tundeloveday:
The list will be out tomorrow before 5pm

salahudeentope:
Nope, Environmental Engineering.
Are you going to Imperial too?

salahudeentope:
Please help a brother na

Rousel:
............... Good morning,pls I like to know how to approach the application fee issue if am applying to 3 Universities? knowing the admission is not guaranteed. Am an Economics graduate,from my observation it's like we don't get funding like the sciences.will be most grateful if you have any University that gives funding to My field of study(Going for my Masters in Economics). Thanks

Mballowa:
Will be reased tomorrow

Scholastica16:
Read from page 1 of this thread. If you get far enough you'd have 70% of the information you already need.

I gather you are aiming for a PhD which is splendid because with a good GRE score, you could be admitted into a top 100 US school fully-funded.

khadijat2015:
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Hello house..
Am new to this thread..my question is that...is it a must to make use of WES for calculation of one's cgpa

Bebebella:
pls am new in this page and I don't understand some of d abbreviation eg pls what is free WES? wat is LOR?

usqoh:
Both LSS and OSS hopefuls will feel the heat. Everyone deserves to know his/her outcome by now regardless of ASUU strike or not.

And don't even think u can't b a LSS Scholar because you applied for OSS. Last year, considerable amount of guys got LSS Scholarship as a compensation even though they applied for OSS. So we are all in this together.

adakoleagbenu:
I really don't know how to react to EngrVin without sounding crude, insulting and stupid. Lemmie hold my peace.





I literally cannot believe that the "list" is not yet out. Ptdf has epitomised *********×*****************************************************







Mr Yimu

Virtuoso89:
The emboldened is specious. Their budget from 2002 has progressively increased till date yet they are trying to find justification for reducing the number of OS scholars.

They have reduced OSS from 9 per state for NON-ND states to 5 and 13 to 6 for ND states. What other reduction will they need to do to prove that they are now prioritising the LSS?

Why incorporate PRESSID scholars of 13/14 and abandon 14/15 scholars whose names you published, yet 2 years down the line still use PRESSID as an excuse for reducing the OSS list?

Why give DPR and co free slots to fill in a handful of names no matter the school of choice yet subject others who actually participated in a testing phase to the ridicule of forcing them sometimes to consider schools in countries they would not have considered?

Why have a separate list different from the published one that may contain names more than the published list if you feel you are truly phasing out the OSS?

Nigerians need to understand the insidiousness that has become part and parcel of the PTDF.

The day of reckoning is coming.

joshtune:
Everyday here na fight fight.