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Holudarey01:
pls do I need a PayPal account for my GRE reg or I can use my gtb MasterCard directly?
I'm lost

Both. Open a PayPal account with normal Nigerian address. Then, drop your GT Mastercard details when prompted on ETS's site. Meanwhile, you need to link your GT Bank Mastercard with your PayPal account (I. E Verifying your PayPal account).

olatricia:
Danjaninja & Co., u guys are doing a great job, may God bless you. Let me say this, expect nothing from people (especially on this platform) so that when you get little from few, it would be so valuable to you and peradventure you get nothing, then you have lost nothing. I appreciate your effort, may God bless you. Yes, am a complete novice here, infact a jew. Yet, I want to take this GRE test. Even up to the moment of writing this, I don't know what GRE is about, I don't know how much it cost to write, I don't have an idea of where and when it can be written. I ve been shopping for a fully funded masters program abroad, when I came across the word "GRE Test" as part of pre-qualification for admission. So, I can searching and thank God I found you guys. So Dan, I'll like you to tutor me about this exams from elementary to advanced. I need your help. More so, find my academic profile below and advice me if I stand a chance of getting a full fledged scholarship (as I have no financial support whatsoever, except God). All I know is that, I'll be doing Masters but not in this country.

My Profile:
B.Sc. Economics - 3.49/5.00 2012
ICAN/ATS - 2011
ICAN/ACA - FINAL STAGE NOV. 2015
WORK EXPERIENCE: 2 YEARS ACCOUNTANT/FINANCIAL CONSULTANT/ CREDIT RISK ADVISOR.
TOEFL - NIL
GRE - NIL

Where do I go from here.
Thanks.
F.O.D

While I'm no guru by any means, I would like to weigh in before Oga Danja checks in. Here goes nothing :
Of course, ma'am, you do have a chance of getting quality graduate education abroad. It just depends on your level of tenacity and dedication. You have acquired relevant experience in your discipline, and that's great.

However, the GRE neutralises everything, if you had a not so super undergrad GPA, your GRE helps you prove to the school that you can apply the reasoning skills required in Grad school. So you are in the right direction.

Focus on scoring as high as possible on the GRE for now. A GPA of 3.49 from School A differs from a 3.49 from School B, so your GRE scores provide a means of you proving to them that your GPA is no fluff, so please take it seriously.

I am also taking mine this November, and God has been good to me, letting me get help from people, including those from this thread.

GO THROUGH THE FIRST POST ON THIS THREAD. REALLY SUCCINCT AND VALUABLE. I HAVE LOST COUNT HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE READ IT!

Pick a test date, get the relevant materials and start prepping.
All the best!

olatricia:
Danjaninja & Co., u guys are doing a great job, may God bless you. Let me say this, expect nothing from people (especially on this platform) so that when you get little from few, it would be so valuable to you and peradventure you get nothing, then you have lost nothing. I appreciate your effort, may God bless you. Yes, am a complete novice here, infact a jew. Yet, I want to take this GRE test. Even up to the moment of writing this, I don't know what GRE is about, I don't know how much it cost to write, I don't have an idea of where and when it can be written. I ve been shopping for a fully funded masters program abroad, when I came across the word "GRE Test" as part of pre-qualification for admission. So, I can searching and thank God I found you guys. So Dan, I'll like you to tutor me about this exams from elementary to advanced. I need your help. More so, find my academic profile below and advice me if I stand a chance of getting a full fledged scholarship (as I have no financial support whatsoever, except God). All I know is that, I'll be doing Masters but not in this country.

My Profile:
B.Sc. Economics - 3.49/5.00 2012
ICAN/ATS - 2011
ICAN/ACA - FINAL STAGE NOV. 2015
WORK EXPERIENCE: 2 YEARS ACCOUNTANT/FINANCIAL CONSULTANT/ CREDIT RISK ADVISOR.
TOEFL - NIL
GRE - NIL

Where do I go from here.
Thanks.
F.O.D

While I'm no guru by any means, I would like to weigh in before Oga Danja checks in. Here goes nothing :
Of course, ma'am, you do have a chance of getting quality graduate education abroad. It just depends on your level of tenacity and dedication. You have acquired relevant experience in your discipline, and that's great.

However, the GRE neutralises everything, if you had a not so super undergrad GPA, your GRE helps you prove to the school that you can apply the reasoning skills required in Grad school. So you are in the right direction.

Focus on scoring as high as possible on the GRE for now. A GPA of 3.49 from School A differs from a 3.49 from School B, so your GRE scores provide a means of you proving to them that your GPA is no fluff, so please take it seriously.

I am also taking mine this November, and God has been good to me, letting me get help from people, including those from this thread.

GO THROUGH THE FIRST POST ON THIS THREAD. REALLY SUCCINCT AND VALUABLE. I HAVE LOST COUNT HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE READ IT!

Pick a test date, get the relevant materials and start prepping.
All the best!

happyday:
Kindly add me: didedaniel@gmail.com.

Oga Danjaninja, please add.

Kindly add me: didedaniel@gmail.com.

Hello House, I digress. . .
Is there a bookshop where they sell SAT prep books in or around Benin or Delta?? Thanks
Cc sirriddy. . .

pascal2young:
i was able to.succeafully log in but at the point of inputing my appointment number nd email address it stated saying does stuff

Ok, search ETS 's website and send them a complaint mail. They would respond within 2 days, though it's usually faster. Have you been able to access the scores on this page before now?

pascal2young:
pls am finding it difficult viewing my score on ets site.......anyone with useful info should assist.....it keeps saying record doesn't match

If you are using a phone or even PC, make sure you are not leaving a space after your email or password.
Double check and be sure you put in caps the necessary characters.

lobito007:
Someone, please respond.

N50, 000. You will collect some change.

lobito007:
Someone, please respond.

N50, 000. You will collect some change.

darellrivers:
Hello Everyone,

I really must apologize for my very long absence here...

I got married quite recently and it is one of the many reasons I was "away"....

I do have a lot more stories to tell-and I have learnt a whole lot (Life, really is a learning ground). Thanks, again to xfire for starting this and inspiring many people.

As we keep saying on this thread, you do not need to "know" anyone or be a "big man's" child to go far in life.
I will keep you guys posted.

Regards,

Me

Wooh! Happy Bountiful Married Life, MD. Can't wait for those stories o.

stolid:
Next month

Alright, We will celebrate afterwards by God's grace.

stolid:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1HAHeBsxYHEaDFRdzAzZ0dWTVk/view
When is your exam?

Thanks oga mi. November . One month away, give or take. And you?:

Denvan:
You mean "...applying for Fall 2016"?

Lol. Yeah. Thanks for pointing that out. For Fall 2016. I meant to say.

Hello house, I need someone to share the download link for the ETS Quant Practice Questions.

Hi Bro,
Thanks for sharing this unique experience with us. You could have just left and moved on.
Overall, I think you went prepared, and I can definitely learn from your share.
I guess the 3rd part later turned to be the Experimental section.
I need to ask: Are you planning on applying this Fall?
If yes, it's time to start preparing. SOP, Research Experience et all.

DanjaNinja:
One million naira to your account for this amazing contribution. God bless you immensely for this.

You set the ball in motion. All we are doing is helping ourselves, and others. How's the atmosphere over there?

Hello,
This is no expert advice, and take this as just my little two cents.
But I need to ask, how did you mean by ** no success**, We're you sent rejection letters? Or the process seems daunting and stressful for you.
If it's the latter, then you can have a sigh of relief, because it's not only looks you. Everybody goes through the same.
If it's the latter, then you need to check your status to see where you need to improve for the next application season:
Your Undergraduate GPA
Test scores, vis a vis GRE, GMAT, depending on your desired programme
Work experience
Letters of Recommendation.
You can drop those state here, so experts can weigh in on what you need to do to bolster your chances.
Peace out.

Detailed and actionable. You went, worked and conquered. Excellent debrief. I pray your TOEFL work out as planned.
Do you have your SOP draft yet? Since I am guessing you want to apply for 2016 Fall??

Hello House,
Seeing how much I have benefited from this great thread, I think it would be unfair on me if I just come here, get what I want to get, and just leave!
People, please let's weigh in, more than just silently reading and withholding valuable info.
That's by the way, though.
With GRE less than 2 months away, I know I'm still learning and not where I need to be yet, in terms of my target scores but here's goes nothing:
VERBAL SECTION :
Being a non native speaker may be a downside a little, but I have read of Americans and test takers with English as their third language scoring 169 / 170 on the Verbal section!
By and large, most of them adopted different strategies and laid claims to various factors owing to their successes. But most of their advice seems to intersect at these 2 major points :
1. The Blind Review : I tested it and I can tell you it works. Blind review simply means identifying your weaknesses and working on them.

As a case study, I answered the first 42 questions on the Manhattan GRE Comprehension Passage section, timed. I ended up with a measly score of 23.
Time taken: 53 minutes, meaning an average of a Min and some seconds per question.

Since the score was really below par, I forgot about the time and decided to focus attention on the quality vis a vis how to improve my score in answering Passage questions.
I went through the answer guide provided in the MGRE, and for each question I missed, I identified the REAL reason I missed it. (I guess this is the most important, and also the most difficult aspect of the blind review.)

For instance, a question skin me to identify the author's primary purpose for writing the passage tricked me into choosing my option, based on the first paragraph Only.
So, while reviewing this question, I wrote it down why I missed it - I focused ONLY on the first paragraph.

Then, I wrote down what to do to avoid making similar mistake next time -
1. Skim through each paragraph, getting an idea of how each paragraph links to the next.
2. Go through the answer choices, and convince myself why FOUR choices are wrong, and the one left is the correct option.

I know this is kind of abstract, even to myself right now, but what matters is being able to apply it when answering questions.

Activity : Block out 2 hours of your time, and answer 30 passage questions from the MGRE. Note the time, but satisfy yourself. You need to understand this concept first, and then you can later work on your timing.

Never pick an option for a question Unless you are 100% sure why the option is correct. Thus, we are removing guess work. If you are unable to answer a question convincingly, circle the number and move on.

When you are through, go through the explanations. I have found most of them to be helpful, ensure you know why they chose the option they chose before moving on to the next question.

For the ones you got right, still go through the explanations to make sure you got them right for the right reasons.

After this session, take a break and repeat the same passage 24 hours later or more.
Same 30 questions, and same rule : Don't pick an option unless you are perfectly sure of it.

Mark your work again, and don't worry if you still missed out on some questions.
Repeat the blind review again, and make a note of your mistakes and how you plan to avoid them next time.

2. Vocabulary : We need to talk about this, though most of us wish we can avoid to do away with it. Most perfect scorers I have seen focused on :
a. Building up their vocabulary and
b. Reading dense articles, aka those ones that we won't save on our bookmarks.

For a., I suggest taking the Vocabulary test in Grubber, 2 at a time.
Mark your work afterwards, and do a a blind review, looking up the meanings of words you don't know.
Write our the worst and attach mnemonics with them.
E. G Ambulances are actually needed by non ambulatory persons. (keyword is Ambulatory).

For b., quickly Google "Christopher Hitchens Atlantic monthly" and you will get a dose of what you need to prep for the GRE.
Especially his tirade on "The real Mahatma Ghandi".

agrovick:
Ppa dey go well, the dreaded burutu LG

Waaaaaaohh, dat one na big one. Really dreaded? But how really is Burutu? Is it as bad as pple paint it, na so so water water? i was partially hoping to be posted there sha, if there would be light.

agrovick:
We even plenty for here. 6 platoons, listen this way, when it's 2pm u pple will cover up on this parade ground the way and manner you cover up for morning parade. Devil bless u 2pm u are not here, walahi I will sell u one unserious job till u leave this camp

Hhaahh, nice one. How you dey, bro? Hope PPA is going great?

Waoh! What a small world. It's like I'm the one writing all these. A million thumbs up @ OP. I can definitely relate to everything here. Was in 6 platoooonssss (I know you get). I have been posted to Agbor, what about you? Hope you're missing the soldiers esp RSM, Baba Bello and John Cena, also UReports. . . .lol

VhatAmazingDude:
Wishing all A15 Stream 2 guys safe trip to camp.. Enjoy your stay like we did.
And don't let the bikers fool you!!
Bike from the junction to camp costs 200 naira or less.

Which one is better to join? obs or red cross? thanks.

VhatAmazingDude:
Wishing all A15 Stream 2 guys safe trip to camp.. Enjoy your stay like we did.
And don't let the bikers fool you!!
Bike from the junction to camp costs 200 naira or less.

Exactly. Some paid as much as 600. I guess it's all part of the October rush. Thanks for the advice. How did cope with the light situation in camp? I want to know if I can submit the docs lyk green card wthout having any photocopy. Photocopy here is 20 naira per page o, datz y. Will I later need d photocopies?

Hello house, I will be travellig from Sagamu, Ogun state. to Delta camp. Any idea how to navigate it? is it TO LAG first or there is another route? how many hours? cos I plan to leave on Tue. Thanks.

Her4labi:
Hey dude,you should have seen that some of your colleagues already said that Stream 1 is May 5th and Stream 2 is June 2nd so you definitely fall under Stream 1.
Just to intimate you guys a little about the camp as a nairalander and someone who has passed through that system as well.
Well my set happened to be the first set that witnessed the Stream 1 and Stream 2 stuff in the year 2008 and it has remained the only set to witness that until this present set of you guys and to be honest when i saw that i was stream 2 i was not happy cos my friends all happened to fall into stream 1 and considering the fact that my school UJ sent us for mobilization after one year of graduating made matters worse cos we were all anxious.
But to be honest,it was the best thing to ever happen to me and if you are in stream 2,i will say Congrats cos the advantages quite outweigh that of stream 1 and you want to know why?

Yes bro! Wanna know why. Just got my call up letter. Delta, to resume June 2.

darellrivers:
Hello Everyone,

I am glad that this thread is still on the front page of the career section... I have been away for too long. I apologise to all those who have sent me mails... I have been quite busy adjusting to the hustle and bustle of Lagos life

Really? You're back to Lagos?? Welcome back to Lagos, Ma. Your email? Is it still active?

Hello house,
Want to ask if it's not too late to change my DOB on the nysc site. I only disovered durin registration.
And what if I can't change it before call up letter is out?

Any girl I'd be asking out must be 'my type', so getting the YES would have been almost guaranteed.

Once a girl has the effontery to say NO once, start parking your loads. The second NO should meet you running away. Life has so much fun, than for someone to lose good night sleep over some randy babe.

Kovic08:
Please what is the formular for calculating percentage error

% error = error/true value x 100%
where error = measured value - true value.

E.g. A stick of lenght 1.75m was measured by a student as 1.8m.
Error = 1.8 - 1.75m = 0.05m.
% error = 0.05/1.75 x 100% = ...

Whether I tried or not, I think it's for you to decipher. Perhaps I'm just not that guy.
Someone that rightly fits you is obviously out there, go figure. Lemme know if you need T-fare.

Whether I tried or no, I think it's for you to decipher. Perhaps I'm just not that guy.
Someone that rightly fits you is obviously out there, go figure.