@Aamstih I have the Manhattan 5lb that I used.If you are on the mainland we could meet up.

LagosismyHome:


i have never used it but it was very popular last fall session here on Nairaland .........except if something major has changed , for fall session the plane flew and Landed , people mentioned it here ....... the end . It gets you there safely but no frills no glamour

** One new change to note , Electronics are now banned on flights into the US from some muslim countries (10 Airports) ie Morocco, Turkey so you need to check in your Laptop or electronics in your main bag and not in your hand luggage

Congrats on your interview . God bless your new journey

Thank you ma.

Mystiqme:

I flew Air Maroc to Nigeria earlier this year. It's OK. It's a no frills airline, it will get you there but don't expect the comfort and service of the likes of Qatar or Emirates.

Okay thank you...no frills needed ooo...

Good morning everyone. Is there any problem with booking Air Maroc to the US?. I read somewhere that it is not advisable to do that.

Thanks for the congratulatory message guys....I will celebrate with those still yet to get theirs....

ponpon:
congratulations sir, and you have also done a big advert for Prodigy finance

Thanks...I am a Lady ooo...Prodigy is well known na...

Visa Approved this morning....
Hi everyone, I want to thank those that continue to support the movement and purpose of this thread. My Visa interview was for 6:30am this morning, I was feeling uneasy all through the night, I woke up around 4am, left my house by 4:55am, I was driving like a snail I didnt even want any stories. I finally got to the embassy like 5:35am, I paid for parking, about 5 guys just rushed me and started telling to arrange my document staple this and that make copy of my passport page that the rules have changed, but as a product of this thread I didn't even answer them, I was the 4th person to be interviewed, it was barely up to 5 mins sef, see my transcript below;

VO; Good morning, how are you
Me; Good morning Sir, I am fine
VO; Pass me your passport and 1-20
Why are you going to the US
Me; I am going to the University of Connecticut for Masters in Business Analytics as Big data is the new wave in Africa and I want to be one of the forerunners of understanding data mining and how Business can (I cant even remember what I said..lol)
VO; oh Uconn, that’s great. Where do you work?
Me; Senior Consultant atXXXX (International Company)
VO; Oh that’s a great Company, hope you enjoyed your time working there?
Me; Yes I have..its being a great time, we have won a couple of employers satisfaction awards in the last few years.
VO; oh really, they would never win that in the US, they are really tough u know ( I just knew my visa was approved from this point)
ME; yes when some of them come to Nigeria, they always want to stay back.
VO; how are you going to pay for your studies?
Me; I got a loan from Prodigy finance and my brother is also sponsoring me
VO; ok… I see you are a genuine student and I would be approving your visa. He returned my 1-20 and the collection ish
Me; Thank you Sir.

The three guys that went before me were still talking to the VO. I just started singing praises all the way to my car, people were just congratulating because it was soo obvious I just got my visa approved.

texrem:
Are you ready TeamFall2017. Oya, success stories should start rolling in from next month.


PM me for your Sevis and Mock interview.

Mock interview for me ooo...How do I send you a personal message. Its saying you are not online.....

Breamz:
VISA TRANSCRIPT(contd)
me:...*i con dey confess evrytin i know abt living things nd its relationship wit its non livinq environment*
vo; pick up ur visa on monday, thank u.
LOBATAN,he didnt ask abt any result or my sponsor nd bank statement. wont lie to u quys i nearly faint, even d pple wey dey d hall know say i happy, my portfolio jus dey fall comot 4 my hand until i reach outside.
ADVICE: pls make sure u fill the ds160 form urself nd if na agent wan help u do am,sit wit d agent nd answer the questions ursef,dnt allow dem put lies 4 ur form,u qo con reach embassy dey tel v.o sumtin different. cos a quy was actually denied cos he was asked where he z qoin,he said New York But The Form Indicate Houston, Texas. felt sowie 4 quy cos he was confused..
And pls read d student visa requirements nd documents to be presented wella, sum quys had no idea abt SEVIS FEE at al. PLS COME JOIN ME ON SUNDAY, TZ THANKSGIVING 4 JESUS 4 ME O. BIG SHOUTOUT TO EVRYBDY HERE,UNA DON EPP ME PASS D WAY UNA IMAGINE.SUCCESS 2 D REST

I key into this your success story ooo.....

Visa interview is in three weeks, any volunteer to help with preparation....Please ooooooooo!!!.....

Chapecoense:

You go to fmjfee.com and fill an online form with your I-20 as a guide.
After you submit the form, a coupon number will be generated, and you will be able to print the confirmation page.
you give this coupon number or confirmation page to whom ever wants to pay it for you.
He goes to western union in the US and makes payment.
Your payment status will change to paid and you will be able to print out the electronic generated receipt which you will take to the embassy as proof of payment.
This is only for western union payment. Hope it helps.

Done. Thanks.

Good evening House,

Please, what is the process like if someone is helping you pay your SEVIS fee?.

Walspring:


If you submitted it without passport the. Glo with it but if not try all possible means to submit it with the passport before submission

Thank you. I have uploaded it.

Good afternoon house,

I am trying to fill the the DS-160 form, but I couldn't upload my passport, but the from is stating that I should bring the passport for my interview. Does this mean I would not need to upload the passport on the form?

Hi guys, my exam is tomorrow...what do u do a day before your exam....I am just looking at words....My vocab is not as strong as I want it to be...

Wow!!! Congratulations on your great scores....This is the motivation I need...My exam in on Wednesday.....Hopefully I would have a good testimony...

Scholastica16:
I wish I had a better testimony to give but this one will make do for now afterall, it is the end-goal that we are all interested in and by end-goal I mean Admission and funding.

I am a second time writer. My first was in late October perhaps about the same time that Drhopeful and Seeker88 wrote theirs. I had just about 2 months of preparation which started with some online blogs and slowly graduated into using the materials that were provided on this thread.

I used Princeton review for everything with a major concentration on the verbal and I started with Nova for the Quants before transcending into Manhattan. I also used the general Nova that had aspects of V and AWA, Barrons, and then Magoosh. I just watched all the Magoosh videos passively i.e I understood all that was being explained without attempting to solve it myself. Eventually, I ended my preparation with the ETS official guide when gurus like EssayHelp and generally people on quora who did really well said it was still the best preparatory book. The only full-length test I did prior to writing my test was the PowerPrep II and even at that, I did not go through the corrections or answer reviews because DanjaNinja had warned that the PowerPrep was easier than the main GRE.

To cut a long story short I got Q 162 V 156 AWA 4.5. As soon as my scores flashed before my eyes I knew I was going to do a retake. Perhaps, Hirschfelder's recent grand success played into my mind. Topiipii's too. I remember I kept telling myself "after all your preparation see what it amounted to".

I would have scheduled that retake as soon as 21 days was up but I was bogged down by my preparation for the TOEFL so I moved my date to yesterday. My new strategy for the GRE was hinged on my V as I knew I trivialised the RCs the previous one. I spent my time ensuring I got 10 of my TCs and SEs in both tests and just did my RC sections cursorily. I know this because I looked at my diagnostics and saw that I got 13/20 in both Vs which was scaled to 156. So this time around I was going to take the RCs much more seriously.

I re-did the first PowerPrep few days into my TOEFL preparation and scored 164. I applied Princeton's POE method and read the passages as fast as a pharmacist will read through a scribbled prescription while at it, I would be summarising what that paragraph was talking about. In reality I was going to leave my preparations at that till I went to re-read Hirschfelder's tips about full- length tests and before one could say "Robison Crusoe" ChemEngr01 had come with his own testimony about full-length tests and his intimidating 167 Q-score.

So I took heed from the information gleaned on this thread and began searching for the online full-length tests and with Seeker's help I gained access to Kaplan's 2016 and 2017 test (for the latter I did only the diagnostic test as the others seemed repeated). I also stumbled unto another good resource called "Petersonspublishing.com". My first Kaplan test had my V at 166 and Q 156. I realised why because I did 3 Qs with one of them being adjudged as the experimental and my last section was my second (I was tired my the last section). So I restrategised and did the next test this time V was 160 and Q 160. When I realised I needed to be improving my Q score more (as an engineering graduate) I began skipping the V and focusing on the Q. Immediately, I saw a good jump from 160 to 164 to 168 and 170 by my final Kaplan test.

The Peterson platform is a bit different but I noticed I always did well in my easy and medium sections for the Q and did badly in the hard part. By badly, I mean 11/20, 10/20 etc. Just hovering around the 50-60% mark. I somehow found a way to console myself claiming that ETS will not set that level of difficulty all through the 2nd test stretch. Also, I consoled myself with the fact that I never did less than 18/20 in the easy or medium sections.

I rounded off my preparations for my second GRE using the ETS guide. It wasn't the regular one we had here but a bit of the same questions. Only difference is this edition was still dealing with the 800 scale and they had two V and Q tests each 25 in number with a specificied 35mins for each V and 40 mins for each Q. I got 21/25 in the first V and 18 in the second. But I had 22 in the first Q and 21 in the second. Then I did the 2nd PowerPrep which came out as Q-166 and V- 160.

I tried pysching myself up by saying Adrenalin will help me in the hall to raise my V to 164 and keep my Q at that range of my PowerPrep. In my heart, my target score was 330 combined but minimum of 166 Q V 164 and atleast a 4.5 in AWA.

I saw VQVQV yesterday and in my estimation did V1 and V3 very well. My V2 was iffy to call a spade and spade. I prayed my V2 will be experimental but I now doubt that was the case. My Q on the otherhand was harder and more time consuming than I hoped it would have been. In fact, I did not have time at all to review any of my sections. I realised I made one mistake but that was in hindsight. The eventual score was Q-164 V-160. Just a 6 mark differential from the first one.

I can't pretend I am excited but I am wise enough to know that my focus should be on what it will help me do- which is to get the admission I want and funding. I don't know how to guage my AWA this time around but I think it was just about the same with my first GRE. I did not practice AWA that much either of the times. I read HappyDay's post on how he got his 5.5 and I think I emulated his template (without his content obviously ).

I am never going to rewrite the GRE. The exam is more of an endurance test than one for acumen or intellect. Also, I would like to thank everyone that has contributed one way or the other on this thread starting from Danja Ninja to Drhopeful to Seeker88 (without whose help I wouldn't have gained access to Kaplan). I was also buoyed by the testimony of Believerspraise and how he got admitted into LSU with a 304. I am saying this because my initial fear was that (from Africa, particularly Nigeria) if one didn't have > or = 328 with a solid GPA etc. You stood no chance. I have since disvowed that notion.

I will keep the house informed how my application goes. I am trying to get it all submitted before the year runs out. ETS TOEFL is yet to make my scores available to me, so that's pretty demoralising.

I apologise for the long post and typos if any. I made this post with my phone. I will edit it when I am settled. Cheers.

Thanks ooo....I have been trying to practice....My morale is just low....exam is on Wednesday.....

happyday:

How have you been preparing for those months? As you inch closer to test date, I recommend that rather than looking for the words to stick, practice more questions on how those words function in sentences and passages, rather than standing alone.

Start with Barron's. Do this for 3 days. Then, move on to Manhattan 5lb Verbal questions.

Cheers!

Hi All, my exam is in 11 days, I have been studying for about 4months followed this thread for about 2 months....d closer i get to the exam date the less prepared I feel...the verbal words won't just stick to my brain...need a startegy ASAP....

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