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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 12:01pm On Dec 16, 2014
sirRiddy:
The magoosh videos:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hrtbu4cofx7gxu0/AAAPJk3ZAcBsjnrEp5VG2q7na?dl=0

Sup bro. Can u add me up to the chinko group pls? #GRE
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by MsAbbyAbby: 10:18pm On Dec 16, 2014
Good evening DanjaNinja...a great job you're doing here. Please I would like to be added to the Facebook Group and any other study materials will be appreciated. Thanks.
Here's my e-mail address: blitheandserene@gmail.com
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 11:21pm On Dec 17, 2014
MsAbbyAbby:
Good evening DanjaNinja...a great job you're doing here. Please I would like to be added to the Facebook Group and any other study materials will be appreciated. Thanks.
Here's my e-mail address: blitheandserene@gmail.com

Done
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 11:22pm On Dec 17, 2014
Omoedeki:
Please DanjaNinja add me to the GRE group on Facebook my email is bestedek@yahoo.com . Thanks for the GRE preparation materials. I received the link earlier today and I've downloaded them. Am grateful sir

Done
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by pricelessmr: 6:00am On Dec 19, 2014
DanjaNinja:


Done

I am happy to be linked to this thread. I just want to take this GRE seriously and target a high score. Please, add me to the facebook group. My email is hiresources@yahoo. com. Thanks.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 5:11am On Dec 20, 2014
pricelessmr:


I am happy to be linked to this thread. I just want to take this GRE seriously and target a high score. Please, add me to the facebook group. My email is hiresources@yahoo. com. Thanks.

Done
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by pricelessmr: 8:07am On Dec 20, 2014
DanjaNinja:


Done


Thank you
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 8:14am On Dec 20, 2014
Took my test on dec 15
162Q 154V AWA 4.5
would modify later for the comprehensive gist...my lappy don crash for now

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by dcutey: 11:43am On Dec 20, 2014
sirRiddy:
Took my test on dec 15
162Q 154V
would modify later for the comprehensive gist...my lappy don crash for now

Congrats sirriddy! those are good scores. what materials did you use?
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 1:04pm On Dec 20, 2014
Ample study time, over three months, lots of advice was sought from past takers, marked determination and I had to shirk girls too.lol
The time I had made me have access to eclectic set of resources.
1. For blogs, I was always checking through magoosh and prepcrunch. If I know how good magoosh was, I would have subscribed for the premium package, just 15k. Got to know barely a month to my exam after my first powerprep practice test. Was shocked to have 151v 153q. E be like film. Also, the facebook group was invaluable. I solved questions from various sources there. Try and start practice tests early enough. I took the risk of delaying it due to proscastination which almost cost me. Get manhattan tests for barely 5k and start doing them early, one per month at least.
2. I started out with Barron and Kaplan. I bought both hard copies at cms. During this time, I also had soft copies of Nova and priceton/cracking the gre. The challenge then was there was no stable supply in my area to read the soft copies on my lappy, the cost of fuel was becoming a huge burden. I also used gruber and they have very wonderful strategies. To solve the power ish, I had to relocate to Ife where power dey wella. Nice ambience, superfluous power supply, what else?
The king of all materials for me was the manhattan 8 books, which I was only opportuned to go through in about a week, due to time constraints. In addition with manhattan 5lb, these moved my quant score from 153 to 156 when I took the second powerprep. But I was still perturbed as my target was at least 160 in Q.
After my second pp, I did not care about my verbal section again. I went to the file section of the fb group and downloaded:
...the official gre guide by ets
....two other books from ets that contain questions for both verbal and quant
....I went through 5lb over and over again. Bought a jotter and wrote questions that were tricky there. This jotter was my companion a week to the test.

Test day: The anxiety before the test day na die. Anybody that says he was not a bit nervous just dey form bravado. I already swore to retake in feb if I had less than 160 in Q. My area is quite far from the central part of lag, na ijegun after ikotun. I had to go and stay with a family friend at lawanson, surulere the previous night. Unfortunately, mosquitoes did not make me get more than 3hr sleep, maybe coupled with anxiety sha. I left home for obanikoro by six like say na by first to reach go determine who go pass. By seven, i had got to JKK, my center. No one was even there.
Strolling around, I went to a bus stop and sat with some boys at a motor garage smoking igbo. I returned to the center by nine and I met so many people also there for the test. We were checked in after extensive briefing of the rules.
On getting to 38A, my desk, I started my test. Writing was ok. Na the argument task wan tough small. I could articulate the author's conclusion quickly enough.
Luckily, quant was the first section I encountered. The questions were quite fair, just lenghty. I rushed through them in less than twenty five mins, making sure I got the three graph questions. I went through each question again, not resolving. I used my calculations on my scratch paper to check and discovered more than 3 silly errors. The verbal na die especially RC. The people wey dey set those RCs na saddist. I just calmly did it sha. I even hide time sef.
The next Q section hard die. I just dey sweat inside AC. I tenaciously solved as many as I could sha. The next verbal was ok. Then the experimental section was Q too, that was ultra hard. I just dey laugh sey if they grade me on this last section alone, I would barely make 150.
I viewed the scores and I was elated. The verbal scores no too make me happy o but I bone joor. I almost forgot to even send scores sef. Na the examiner talk sey 'will not send your scors?'
I sent my scores to my intended schools and left the test center.

My hand don almost break...typing with nokia palasa na die. I hope you intending test takers prepare better and score far higher. I am giving back my experience because I believe it is my duty to do so. Good luck my people.
dcutey:


Congrats sirriddy! those are good scores. what materials did you use?

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by dcutey: 5:08pm On Dec 20, 2014
sirRiddy:
Ample study time, over three months, lots of advice was sought from past takers, marked determination and I had to shirk girls too.lol
The time I had made me have access to eclectic set of resources.
1. For blogs, I was always checking through magoosh and prepcrunch. If I know how good magoosh was, I would have subscribed for the premium package, just 15k. Got to know barely a month to my exam after my first powerprep practice test. Was shocked to have 151v 153q. E be like film. Also, the facebook group was invaluable. I solved questions from various sources there. Try and start practice tests early enough. I took the risk of delaying it due to proscastination which almost cost me. Get manhattan tests for barely 5k and start doing them early, one per month at least.
2. I started out with Barron and Kaplan. I bought both hard copies at cms. During this time, I also had soft copies of Nova and priceton/cracking the gre. The challenge then was there was no stable supply in my area to read the soft copies on my lappy, the cost of fuel was becoming a huge burden. I also used gruber and they have very wonderful strategies. To solve the power ish, I had to relocate to Ife where power dey wella. Nice ambience, superfluous power supply, what else?
The king of all materials for me was the manhattan 8 books, which I was only opportuned to go through in about a week, due to time constraints. In addition with manhattan 5lb, these moved my quant score from 153 to 156 when I took the second powerprep. But I was still perturbed as my target was at least 160 in Q.
After my second pp, I did not care about my verbal section again. I went to the file section of the fb group and downloaded:
...the official gre guide by ets
....two other books from ets that contain questions for both verbal and quant
....I went through 5lb over and over again. Bought a jotter and wrote questions that were tricky there. This jotter was my companion a week to the test.

Test day: The anxiety before the test day na die. Anybody that says he was not a bit nervous just dey form bravado. I already swore to retake in feb if I had less than 160 in Q. My area is quite far from the central part of lag, na ijegun after ikotun. I had to go and stay with a family friend at lawanson, surulere the previous night. Unfortunately, mosquitoes did not make me get more than 3hr sleep, maybe coupled with anxiety sha. I left home for obanikoro by six like say na by first to reach go determine who go pass. By seven, i had got to JKK, my center. No one was even there.
Strolling around, I went to a bus stop and sat with some boys at a motor garage smoking igbo. I returned to the center by nine and I met so many people also there for the test. We were checked in after extensive briefing of the rules.
On getting to 38A, my desk, I started my test. Writing was ok. Na the argument task wan tough small. I could articulate the author's conclusion quickly enough.
Luckily, quant was the first section I encountered. The questions were quite fair, just lenghty. I rushed through them in less than twenty five mins, making sure I got the three graph questions. I went through each question again, not resolving. I used my calculations on my scratch paper to check and discovered more than 3 silly errors. The verbal na die especially RC. The people wey dey set those RCs na saddist. I just calmly did it sha. I even hide time sef.
The next Q section hard die. I just dey sweat inside AC. I tenaciously solved as many as I could sha. The next verbal was ok. Then the experimental section was Q too, that was ultra hard. I just dey laugh sey if they grade me on this last section alone, I would barely make 150.
I viewed the scores and I was elated. The verbal scores no too make me happy o but I bone joor. I almost forgot to even send scores sef. Na the examiner talk sey 'will not send your scors?'
I sent my scores to my intended schools and left the test center.

My hand don almost break...typing with nokia palasa na die. I hope you intending test takers prepare better and score far higher. I am giving back my experience because I believe it is my duty to do so. Good luck my people.

very detailed post and study strategy, no wonder you aced it. Danjaninja posted that he has invited me to the facebook group but i didn't see any invite in my facebook, pls how do i join the group. my email is dkuti2002@yahoo.com, you can invite me to the group but i would appreciate if you could send the materials you downloaded from the group to my mail as well. Thanks a lot.

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 7:06pm On Dec 20, 2014
Please add me to the Facebook group adetola007@yahoo.com
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by naijaobi(m): 7:52pm On Dec 20, 2014
bro add me ermaccity5@yahoo.com
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by seeker88(m): 9:21pm On Dec 20, 2014
Pls DanjaNinja, kindly add me to d facebook group. Here's my email: emeks4all2005@yahoo.com.
Please, don't quote this with my email address as I intend to remove d email address after u must have added me to d group.
Cheers bro!
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 10:02pm On Dec 20, 2014
Hello House, if i am unable to respond to your facebook GRE add group request on time, please ask SirRiddy to add you up. He's a member of the group and he like computer pass anything. #OneLove grin

To those whom i have added: PLEASE ADD OTHERS!!!!!!
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 10:04pm On Dec 20, 2014
System got crashed two days ago. How u doing bro?
DanjaNinja:
Hello House, if i am unable to respond to your facebook GRE add group request on time, please ask SirRiddy to add you up. He's a member of the group and he like computer pass anything. #OneLove grin
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 10:07pm On Dec 20, 2014
sirRiddy:
System got crashed two days ago. How u doing bro?

I dey bam o..Just planning for 2015. Money must land o. Enter facebook make we relate. grin
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 10:07pm On Dec 20, 2014
My system crashed bro, so i do not have access to my facebook now. When I get it back running during the week, I would add you.
There are a lot of books that cannot be sent to your mail. You should try to search for them online. I would help you with some links when I get my lappy back. Also the fb group has a lot of those files.
dcutey:


very detailed post and study strategy, no wonder you aced it. Danjaninja posted that he has invited me to the facebook group but i didn't see any invite in my facebook, pls how do i join the group. my email is dkuti2002@yahoo.com, you can invite me to the group but i would appreciate if you could send the materials you downloaded from the group to my mail as well. Thanks a lot.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 10:08pm On Dec 20, 2014
dcutey:


very detailed post and study strategy, no wonder you aced it. Danjaninja posted that he has invited me to the facebook group but i didn't see any invite in my facebook, pls how do i join the group. my email is dkuti2002@yahoo.com, you can invite me to the group but i would appreciate if you could send the materials you downloaded from the group to my mail as well. Thanks a lot.

It works via Email. Pls, Check ur email and accept the request. Thank u sir. grin
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 10:10pm On Dec 20, 2014
My tool don get injury, my lappy don get fault. I would beep you when I get it running next week. You be sure warri guy now, money must come, wafe boy nor dey carry last.
DanjaNinja:


I dey bam o..Just planning for 2015. Money must land o. Enter facebook make we relate. grin
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 10:16pm On Dec 20, 2014
sirRiddy:
My tool don get injury, my lappy don get fault. I would beep you when I get it running next week. You be sure warri guy now, money must come, wafe boy nor dey carry last.

Lol...wetin do ur lappy?...I could help.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 10:25pm On Dec 20, 2014
Na this stop/blue screen ish jare. Whenever I power it on, the blue screen comes on. Then when I try system repair and system restore, it responds that 'system restore cannot solve the problem'. I don frustrate die cos I have a proposal to submit before jan 5th and I have not even started preparing for it.
DanjaNinja:


Lol...wetin do ur lappy?...I could help.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 10:27pm On Dec 20, 2014
sirRiddy:
Na this stop/blue screen ish jare. Whenever I power it on, the blue screen comes on. Then when I try system repair and system restore, it responds that 'system restore cannot solve the problem'. I don frustrate die cos I have a proposal to submit before jan 5th and I have not even started preparing for it.

Boot the system via safemode and uninstall any recently installed software. That might help.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by DanjaNinja(m): 10:51pm On Dec 20, 2014
sabiguy:


Sup bro. Can u add me up to the chinko group pls? #GRE


Go to china, Chinko full there. tongue
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 10:51pm On Dec 20, 2014
I don kuku try to trubleshoot am small. No show jare. I go carry am give my padi on monday. Thanks bro.
DanjaNinja:


Boot the system via safemode and uninstall any recently installed software. That might help.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Obiwannn: 11:10pm On Dec 20, 2014
sirRiddy:
Ample study time, over three months, lots of advice was sought from past takers, marked determination and I had to shirk girls too.lol
The time I had made me have access to eclectic set of resources.
1. For blogs, I was always checking through magoosh and prepcrunch. If I know how good magoosh was, I would have subscribed for the premium package, just 15k. Got to know barely a month to my exam after my first powerprep practice test. Was shocked to have 151v 153q. E be like film. Also, the facebook group was invaluable. I solved questions from various sources there. Try and start practice tests early enough. I took the risk of delaying it due to proscastination which almost cost me. Get manhattan tests for barely 5k and start doing them early, one per month at least.
2. I started out with Barron and Kaplan. I bought both hard copies at cms. During this time, I also had soft copies of Nova and priceton/cracking the gre. The challenge then was there was no stable supply in my area to read the soft copies on my lappy, the cost of fuel was becoming a huge burden. I also used gruber and they have very wonderful strategies. To solve the power ish, I had to relocate to Ife where power dey wella. Nice ambience, superfluous power supply, what else?
The king of all materials for me was the manhattan 8 books, which I was only opportuned to go through in about a week, due to time constraints. In addition with manhattan 5lb, these moved my quant score from 153 to 156 when I took the second powerprep. But I was still perturbed as my target was at least 160 in Q.
After my second pp, I did not care about my verbal section again. I went to the file section of the fb group and downloaded:
...the official gre guide by ets
....two other books from ets that contain questions for both verbal and quant
....I went through 5lb over and over again. Bought a jotter and wrote questions that were tricky there. This jotter was my companion a week to the test.

Test day: The anxiety before the test day na die. Anybody that says he was not a bit nervous just dey form bravado. I already swore to retake in feb if I had less than 160 in Q. My area is quite far from the central part of lag, na ijegun after ikotun. I had to go and stay with a family friend at lawanson, surulere the previous night. Unfortunately, mosquitoes did not make me get more than 3hr sleep, maybe coupled with anxiety sha. I left home for obanikoro by six like say na by first to reach go determine who go pass. By seven, i had got to JKK, my center. No one was even there.
Strolling around, I went to a bus stop and sat with some boys at a motor garage smoking igbo. I returned to the center by nine and I met so many people also there for the test. We were checked in after extensive briefing of the rules.
On getting to 38A, my desk, I started my test. Writing was ok. Na the argument task wan tough small. I could articulate the author's conclusion quickly enough.
Luckily, quant was the first section I encountered. The questions were quite fair, just lenghty. I rushed through them in less than twenty five mins, making sure I got the three graph questions. I went through each question again, not resolving. I used my calculations on my scratch paper to check and discovered more than 3 silly errors. The verbal na die especially RC. The people wey dey set those RCs na saddist. I just calmly did it sha. I even hide time sef.
The next Q section hard die. I just dey sweat inside AC. I tenaciously solved as many as I could sha. The next verbal was ok. Then the experimental section was Q too, that was ultra hard. I just dey laugh sey if they grade me on this last section alone, I would barely make 150.
I viewed the scores and I was elated. The verbal scores no too make me happy o but I bone joor. I almost forgot to even send scores sef. Na the examiner talk sey 'will not send your scors?'
I sent my scores to my intended schools and left the test center.

My hand don almost break...typing with nokia palasa na die. I hope you intending test takers prepare better and score far higher. I am giving back my experience because I believe it is my duty to do so. Good luck my people.

congrats sur...
which is Manhattan tests and Manhattan 8?
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 11:30pm On Dec 20, 2014
The six online based tests by manhattan. It is believed to be the best besides the powerprep.
The manhattan 8 are a set of strategy guides that comprehensively cover the GRE curriculum. There are 8 of them.
Obiwannn:


congrats sur...
which is Manhattan tests and Manhattan 8?
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 11:46pm On Dec 20, 2014
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 6:08am On Dec 21, 2014
Yeah. With a paypal account, GTB mastercard, you can register on the ets site.
decode:
Can I register through the GRE website?
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Obiwannn: 9:40am On Dec 21, 2014
sirRiddy:
The six online based tests by manhattan. It is believed to be the best besides the powerprep.
The manhattan 8 are a set of strategy guides that comprehensively cover the GRE curriculum. There are 8 of them.

is it free?
source to download pls

also how long did it take you to study for u to score so high?
cos I intend taking my exam on march 30th...and I'm still some way off preparations but my friends are discouraging me to chill till august..
so I need ur advice pls
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by dcutey: 11:24am On Dec 21, 2014
DanjaNinja:


It works via Email. Pls, Check ur email and accept the request. Thank u sir. grin

Thanks again danjaninja, i'll check my mail and accept.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Jtmanager(m): 11:33am On Dec 21, 2014
Solomon.iyere@yahoo.com
please inv me to the group

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