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Area C go follow you go any length to collect raba, I have always complained about the way they molest youths

TJ0987:
Feeling very depressed. My power prep result V:145, Q: 151. I really feel like quitting. Am not getting anywhere. So, so, sad.

Can we talk sir,you can hit a high score still, the difference between scores are study materials

Walexwal:
yes I need one bro. am in Lagos

Boss please download the PDF and if you want to buy anything or get something get the O.G, please don't attack my comment, it's just my little piece of mind

Please has anyone applied to or presently enrolled in University of South alabama and do they waive TOEFL for Nigerian students, Please don't "tackle" me, i need help thanks.....

Jayroland:
Good day, kindly add me to the GRE whatsapp group, as well as the facebook page.. Thanks. 07035788946; john2roland@yahoo.com

cc Donxab

Great work here guys..

I still need some tips which i don't see frequently anymore

doziej84:
what's the best material one can use to achieve excellent scores in TOEFL?

I heard it's that Cambridge material from review, i haven't taken the toefl test btw

amofum:
So after almost one full year of following this thread, I get to post my own experience.

Some 2 months ago, the trend of the naira- precipitous decline- forced me to finally schedule a date for the GRE test at #350. On that day, I made sure I chose the farthest date available-october 3rd, 2016- because although I had covered every material my practice scores were abysmal as it could get V155-158 Q150-158 for schools I had in mind. I was ready for a retest even before the test. My you I didn't have one naira on me again. I just dey sing small doctor song (aja n'sare, owo jona). Everyone on the whatsapp group kept encouraging me, I don't know each of them's monikers on nl however, ponpon was like a virtual GRE father to me.

Finally, two months deprecated into one month into 3 weeks till we got to two weeks. My practise score still didn't improve, I felt like postponing my test date. I couldn't tell anyone, I was constantly pusillanimous. Alas, I took ill on Tuesday of that week. I Just told myself THIS IS IT. However, ponpon once again encourage me, he was over empathetic; he told me he also took ill before his test. I couldn't read again, so I tried powerprep test 2 for confidence and wow. It took away the last shard of confidence left in me. I stared at the system as it showed me V156 Q152. I continued into reviewing the quant questions I failed. When I saw them I just sighed, I was destined to fail.

That week ran as fast as it could, I was just reviewing my mistakes. Lo! We were in my final one week, I still hadn't score x=320 on any practice test (even kaplan). I decided to just write sha sha. Thus on sunday 2nd of October, I migrated to Ojota, got a cheap guest house to pass the night no more reading. So I won't be late for my test, I stay around Iyana-Iba, I didn't want to add any risk to my state of 'unpreparedness'.

That night was very long but, soon it was 5am anxiety add woken me up. I stayed in my room till 7am. I proceeded to have breakfast and by 8:45am, I was en-route JKK house. At something around 9:15am I was in the compound and it felt awkward. I seemed to be the youngest there, and. The only one who didn't come with books. Yepa!!! I don die, should I have continued with 5lb till yesterday or this morning? Would it have helped? The questions flew in like they were in an 100m sprint contest with Mr. Bolt. Within 5mins I was already feeling headaches.

So much getting there early, I tried to keep my mind relax by chat with my GRE fam on whatsapp, ponpon was helpful again. 10am the capturing/accreditation had started and by 11ami was at workstation 20b at ETC. The journey was bout to start. I got an issue on leader made by demands; I interpreted it as leaders being made or born. I just did it somehow. Next came the argument it was on game sales and a tweak in strategy, I just lacerated the thing.

After the appetizers came the main course, as I had prayed for, I got verbal first thus my experimental would be verbal. This first section, I did my best, can't say it was easy. Then came the quant and when I got to number 20, I knew i needed around 13 more right questions to be guaranteed of 160 it was blessed. I then took my 10mins break. The next verbal felt like it was written in japanese, I just couldn't understand why it was showing on my screen. In my mind I just pondered, if ETS doesn't want me to pass they should just tell me why must they go through this route? Next came the quant and I felt ok this is the time to show them I can get the 165 like topii. Gbam! Gboom! Gbish! Na so the questions attack me. Jesu mi ooooo!!! My money is going. I tried my best, got to number 15 and time went off. I just sank back into my chair. I turn left and right people were already reporting scores. Someone got 316 and she was smiling. One section to go and I was praying for 310. The last section was verbal again, I just did it with less conviction, and got to the end b4 the 26mins mark. I smiled to myself, I had set a new personal best in stupidity.

It was time to report scores, I wanted to but, my spirit was weak. Finally, the body and the spirit reach a compromise, I reported the scores. Then came that long 3 seconds, alas my score was here. What I saw made me stare at the screen for another 60seconds then out of shock I signalled to the proctor, as he approached I realised I really didn't have anything to tell him. The screen showed Verbal:160 Quant:161. I was happy, I decided to send it to 3 safe schools and one good school. Kent State, Oklahoma State, Florida Inst of Tech and Uni of Illinois-urbana.

I walked out of the centre and still couldn't understand if those were really my scores. Shout out to you all on nl who regularly posted tips and material God bless. Special rugged shout out to ponpon and the family on whatsapp, if I were to choose people to go on the journey with all over. I probably choose you guys x! Times where 20<x.

Next phase serious application.

My current profile:
BSc: 3.01/4.00
MSc: 3.8/4.00
GRE: 321
Intended programs: Phd I/O psychology or PhD Management (HRM) or PhD Business (HRM) or PhD Labor and Employment Relations.

I pray we all make it to our dream institutions, Fall 2017 application has started in earnest.

Sir BOYI i greet you, you are in already oga mi, early application is key

Nice way to promote Son of Mercy E.p if you lick ice cream you must hype his songs

Recently Unilag has been in the news for various negative reasons, expunging Students Union, rusticating leaders for protesting for student welfare, rusticating students for social media posts etc.

Today during the faculty elections, a news came first as a joke but all of a sudden the Dean and the Deputy Dean Student's affairs came to disrupt elections in the faculty of engineering and other faculties that any student that has a prior degree from any University or polytechnic in Nigeria can't run for post in University of Lagos, This led to the disqualification of a presidential candidate and many other candidates.

I'm trying to imagine the kind of Democracy unilag is portraying to Nigeria and the world, the youths are watching and learning, Our government is watching and nothing is being done, i feel a time bomb is ticking and would soon explode.

We call ourselves Nigeria and we sing our anthem

N.B The current V.C of Unilag is an Alumni of Unilorin.

Is this racism or which kind of discrimination would i call this.

Please who knows anything about University of South Alabama and University of Southern Mississippi

D5000y:
Kudos to everyone in the house!

I just completed my Masters (MSc) under the World Bank Africa Postgraduate Scholarship with specialization in Hydrology (water) & Climate Change; especially modeling groundwater flow and climate models, and would like to proceed on PhD.

Please any advice on likely scholarships? I am not avased to any geographic location.

Thank you

Which school boss

Walspring:
I have replied your pm, just check and I hope you making the payment via laptop or computer? Because directing you via phone while doing it via laptop/computer will be easier and faster

I always use pc sir, seen your pm sir

Walspring:
I helped and assisted someone on Friday based on this kindly Send me pm to help you so that I guide you over the phone how you can by pass it for your payment to be successful. Because the naira exchange rate on their site is the reason why it won't go through.

Thanks Boss, done.....please i'll appreciate your response ....i noticed the rate was kinda low tho......

Please who has tried making any payments on ets website, I have been trying to pay for sending additional score and it's not going... I used the same PayPal to pay for my exam in may, now I have even added stanbic card to my PayPal it didn't work.. Used stanbic and first Bank no solution...

Any help abeg

texrem:
How u dey ponpon...I no see ur breaklight again...as i don commot area

Boss or na you forget me.. Check your pm abeg

This is what I like, everybody should keep bonding.... It's better.. And shoot out to everybody on here who has been helping a brother man or a sister woman one way or the other... No matter how little the help might be... Time, advice, site, school, suggestions, mails, format, data, books, contacts and just anything.... God bless you all..

To those of us applying for fall 2017...please let's keep close contact with those who gained admission recently I.e fall 16 and always seek advice from those who have walked our paths... As for me I dey follow who know road...

gunther6:
I will continue my #novaseline in a bit, meanwhile dickoflife you are kinda of a dick but then it will come as little suprise to anyone. school is school, i'm kind of a hit with the white girls in my class. NL'ders you cannot refuse to write GRE and TOEFL and magically expect funding. for this reason I am going to pay for someones GRE and subsidize that of 3 people not exceeding 30%. i thinkl adazlolly has been sending me 2 mails a week for free GRE if she mails me again fine, but they are all up for grabs.

God bless you sir.... I'll always pray for you

Ijomobi:
I applied to LSU for spring 2017. and I av gained admission. u can p.m me to give u tips on their admission stuff. cheers.

Congrats sir

FALL 2017 people , how is it going oooh....he no easy!

slimmy2005:
Everythig here comes with a fee. There is no Oga abeg I no get money today. If you can drop that crude idea that anyone who tells you to bring money while coming to US is a pessimist, then you need to check yourself. Even with a GA you still get to pay atleast $2-3k every semester.

The reason why we stress the advice of you making sure you get funding is simple. Schools here are expensive. My school fee is about $12k per semester. Imagine I didn't get funding? I would rather transit to China and access their scholarship for Masters program.

You can't always depend on luck or people. Do well to get funding. Write GRE now so incase you don't get OPT quick, you can either apply for a PhD or another masters else where. All those epistle wey sureb0y they spew, are just a product of what he has been fed with.

Nigerians do the worse set of wickedness to one another. Just few days ago, a guy who accommodated a Nigerian girl as a way to help her predicament, not knowing she has alterior motive. She was sort of admiring the guy at some point that it got to the extent of harassing the guys female visitors. He got angry and dragged her out of his house (well, wrong way of doing things here), her cloth got torn and leg scratched the wall I guess. She called the cops and pressed charges on the guy for domestic assault. She is actually doing that cos she has been fed with the idea of applying for a U- non immigrant petition for domestic assault. It's a state case now, they gave her an attorney and a shelter. This is what we have been battling now.

Your advice comes handy, but sometimes just analyze and get the tone of what I meant...

I was replying a message and giving illustrations... Sure it's everywhere on here nothing goes for free...

And when you just start getting cold.... Sir sureb0y comes around to motivate in his own style... Perfect sir...... Omo that negative guys parole, them many for my side ooooh... If you see comments.... 'you know how many people dye pass gre', 'you get 10 million to school for amerixa', 'if you no enter ivy league how you wan survive after school'...... Sureb0y you na real G

slimmy2005:
There are hundreds of you mailing him including his students. Chill, they are not robots and don't share their email passwords for secretary to respond on their behalf.

Yeah, ikr, but the five mails aren't for one prof, but your advice has been noted...

femi321:
Okay and dont neglect the grad cord, most times they are the ones that make decisions for TA appointment. develop a relationship with the grad cord. All the best.

the grad cord even replies faster and creates the room for convo, sometimes I wonder if maybe his grad students he is supervising are the ones replying... Just my naija mind abeg

femi321:
Anyone is fine but preferably Dr. What i have noticed here is that any faculty lecturing is a prof whether associate or assistant unlike Nigeria where you get your PH.d first then you become a reader then later a prof. Additionally i saw your post about mailing faculties. Its not easy i must tell you, i am sure you have not sent as much emails as i sent then. The number of emails i sent this year alone is more than the total i have sent since i opened my email account in 2005. In summary, don't give up. some will reply some wont. Some might want to reply but forgot. You can send a reminder after 48hrs, that's the rule here, also you can use your discretion and send a reminder after 4 days. Some people do say don't attach transcript and resume to the first email but i noticed that's what some faculties are looking for. so what works for Taye might not work for Kenny, but if you ask me i would say you should attach them but don't talk about funding in the first email (i made this mistake).

and I have sent just like 5 mails.... I always read the profs profile well and note what they require... Some even ask for recommendations, some ask for Cv and writing sample.. I appreciate your response sir.................

Are Professors are address as Dr. Or Prof. When mailing.... Because I use Dr. Everytime.....

happyday:
I'm facing the same issue currently. But, I have tried treat it as a numbers game. You win some, you lose some. I discovered grad school coordinators are more apt to reply promptly compared to faculty members. And the higher their rank, the lesser the chance they'll get back to you. I e-mailed 6 of them, only one Prof replied me consistently. Others went blank. Though I started during the summer break.

- It may be that the profs are not currently accepting new students
- Or that they got your mail, are interested in replying, but just plainly forgot to do so!
- Or they may feel you've not understood their research interests enough for them to pay attention to you, and reply you
- Or your mails just got dumped in the spam folder, since they are cold emails

Whatever it may be, I've discovered that most are situations completely outside our control.

This worked for me though. A sample of the first email I sent.

Subject: I'm highly interested in (your request) in your (Prof's field) lab

Prof's Name:

Hello Sir/Ma,

My name is XXXX, and I have completed SO SO SO degree from XYZ school.

I'm highly interested in joining your research lab focused on developing and optimizing cutting-edge approaches to delivering drugs and genes in humans for better living conditions.

I'm currently working at AAA (briefly explain your profile here, and how you think you'll be beneficial to him/her).

I completed my BSc with a (GPA), and (your brief achievements, one line at most).

I'm passionate about SO SO , and would love to (what you want to know/ask) + (Indicate a sense of urgency to show seriousness).

Thanks for your anticipated and favourable response.

No response.

So, I sent the same email four days after, also on a week day, with a Re: I'm highly interested in (your request) in your (Prof's field) lab [/i]subject, and started with this note.

[i]Hello Prof ABC,

Hope you're doing great? Just sending you a gentle reminder on the request for contact for research studies at ABC.

[Former email]

Closing: I'm sure you must be really busy, and I don't want to seem interrupting.

Hope you can find a few minutes on this. I appreciate your reply.

Regards.

Alert! I got a reply that same day, and she's been responding since then.

Is this from quora?

Ugoebuka47:
Please how can my people send me money from Nigeria to USA?or if there is anybody who is willing to sell for me and I will credit the person in his or her naija account,5k$...please it's urgent

Westy suppose work sir

LagosismyHome:
Yes you can definitely send reminders , just be polite and professional.... it even shows you are persistent because you really want it . .. no too frequent sha because everything should be done in moderation so once every 2 to 3 weeks . ..

No word......Yes it happens oo. They get busy with other things. also its possible they haven't responded because they have internal time frame they are working

Thanks ma'am would do just that. the first was really chatty, so i thought that was the trend...i'll remind them..meanwhile i wont mind if anyone blesses me with more funding friendly schools, my profile is a moderate profile

Wonderful people on here.....

Guys, the first prof I mailed has caused some 'ish' for me. He replied almost immediately and we got talking.... The other schools professors I'm mailing, Damn!....I'm still waiting if they would reply tomorrow, 2 weeks plus now... No word... Like 3 different people...

Should I send reminders? And how often?

Uber supports events, uber had created a lot of jobs, uber is cheaper, uber gives a more decent ride... Tf is the problem of Lagos state?