iCool:


Powerprep gives an idea of what will be tested on exam day.


Can't say more for confidentiality sake.

TJ0987:
Hello Guys,

Took the powerprep test again this weekend, and got a score of 154 for quantitative (I skipped the verbal section as advised by my good friend Amofum, so i can focus more on quant).

I am not there yet, and i still feel bad that i can't make 161 like some people on this platform, but at least, i realize that even though i still have a long way to go, I am not where i was yesterday. Slow and steady...

Regards, and thanks to all those who reached out...your words strengthen me.

RasheedahWunmi:
Hmmmn,i hv read the manhattan books,The more i read d more i feel afraid,All i wish to use is manhattan for quant,Gruber for Verbal reasoning, and princton review,smone shld pls advise me cx am afraid of d unknown,Are those books enogh?

cuspy:


Told ya.

I had an issue tho. I was registered for 3rd Nov and not the 20th Nov date I picked. They said they're going to reschedule for me an early Dec Date; additional cost on them.

Hope prep is going well?

RasheedahWunmi:
Hmmmn,i hv read the manhattan books,The more i read d more i feel afraid,All i wish to use is manhattan for quant,Gruber for Verbal reasoning, and princeton review,someone shld pls advise me cx am afraid of d unknown,Are those books enogh?

jagaban17:
Please ,I've been using Kaplan 2016 for preparation. My exam is 3rd of November.

Hope its sufficient for preparation, or I should try other books.

jagaban17:
Please ,I've been using Kaplan 2016 for preparation. My exam is 3rd of November.

Hope its sufficient for preparation, or I should try other books.

jagaban17:



Please how did you do that please ?

Please if you are applying to STEM and prepping on the GRE,
focus on the GRE Quant section. Most engineering grad schools
know we are terrible at verbal. Do not waste your time!

sirRiddy:
Please if you are applying to STEM and prepping on the GRE,
focus on the GRE Quant section. Most engineering grad schools
know we are terrible at verbal. Do not waste your time!

sirRiddy:
Please if you are applying to STEM and prepping on the GRE,
focus on the GRE Quant section. Most engineering grad schools
know we are terrible at verbal. Do not waste your time!

drhopeful:

Lastly, we rarely talk of AW. It is a torn in most people's flesh, including mine. Apart from learning the structure of a good essay and practising at least one of both types, it needs serious prayers. If you get an unfamiliar essay topic on test day and you draw blank, or you misread as I did, that is it - all doom! All guess what? Most schools require at least a 4 to be competitive!

drhopeful:
Hi my dearest sirRiddy, I hope school is cool. I agree and disagree with you. Lol. While we (science/engineering students) are expected to score significantly higher in Quant than Verbal, we still need to put in significant effort in prepping for Verbal. Top to average schools require 155 or higher in V. To even achieve that score of 155, significant prep effort is required except one is already an English pro.

But of course, if one is weak in Q, please focus more but not totally on it.

Lastly, we rarely talk of AW. It is a torn in most people's flesh, including mine. Apart from learning the structure of a good essay and practising at least one of both types, it needs serious prayers. If you get an unfamiliar essay topic on test day and you draw blank, or you misread as I did, that is it - all doom! All guess what? Most schools require at least a 4 to be competitive!

sirRiddy:


Hi ma'am.
My submission came from a discussion I had with a faculty on Monday morning.
He admitted that the Quant section of the test is the most useful factor when
assessing STEM applicants from third world countries apart fom research experience. They already know your grasp of writing and speaking
skills is sub par given that you are not a native speaker even though you had a 29 on TOEFL, they also
expect a horrible paper from you filled with poor grammar. Of what use is a 158 V score for a STEM
application if you cannot make at worst a 160 in quant? I have a colleague from China who just started learning
English less than a year ago and he is a funded PhD student here. His quant score is 168 and his verbal
is 145. Worst still, his speaking score is 18. But he was still accepted. Of course there is something special
about him, he has a co-authored paper in a top AI conference and has reasonable research experience. He teaches
a lab. Yeah you heard that right, he is a teaching assistant. It takes him like five minutes to speak few sentences
as he has to repeat them and sometimes spell.

I agree with you about the need for 155 plus to stand a chance at top 20 schools. But the reality is that
half of us will not get into those schools. It is not that we are stupid, at least not entirely, but we have
horrible UG GPA. We sabi as e go for our unis here na. The bitter truth is if you are not someone who
is an avid reader 'latile' or very versed with the test, your propensity to improve on verbal is not very auspicious.

My rant summarily is that Quant is way more important than Verbal or even AWA for STEM peeps.
It is easier for us to shoot up our scores there than spend needless hours on Verbal with little or no
change in the scores. For AWA, I think Kaplan takes care of it neatly.

Wish you luck in your test, ma'am

folakin:
thks bro, received...

sirRiddy:


Hi ma'am.
My submission came from a discussion I had with a faculty on Monday morning.
He admitted that the Quant section of the test is the most useful factor when
assessing STEM applicants from third world countries apart fom research experience. They already know your grasp of writing and speaking
skills is sub par given that you are not a native speaker even though you had a 29 on TOEFL, they also
expect a horrible paper from you filled with poor grammar. Of what use is a 158 V score for a STEM
application if you cannot make at worst a 160 in quant? I have a colleague from China who just started learning
English less than a year ago and he is a funded PhD student here. His quant score is 168 and his verbal
is 145. Worst still, his speaking score is 18. But he was still accepted. Of course there is something special
about him, he has a co-authored paper in a top AI conference and has reasonable research experience. He teaches
a lab. Yeah you heard that right, he is a teaching assistant. It takes him like five minutes to speak few sentences
as he has to repeat them and sometimes spell.

I agree with you about the need for 155 plus to stand a chance at top 20 schools. But the reality is that
half of us will not get into those schools. It is not that we are stupid, at least not entirely, but we have
horrible UG GPA. We sabi as e go for our unis here na. The bitter truth is if you are not someone who
is an avid reader 'latile' or very versed with the test, your propensity to improve on verbal is not very auspicious.

My rant summarily is that Quant is way more important than Verbal or even AWA for STEM peeps.
It is easier for us to shoot up our scores there than spend needless hours on Verbal with little or no
change in the scores. For AWA, I think Kaplan takes care of it neatly.

Wish you luck in your test, ma'am

BeingGabriel:
I don't know @sirRiddy, but it seems you're a great guy. And if I may ask, at what sch are you doing your graduate studies? (I assume you are) and how did your GRE scores fare, going by your comments a while ago?

My submission came from a discussion I had with a faculty on Monday morning.
He admitted that the Quant section of the test is the most useful factor when assessing STEM applicants from third world countries apart fom research experience. They already know your grasp of writing and speaking skills is sub par given that you are not a native speaker even though you had a 29 on TOEFL, they also expect a horrible paper from you filled with poor grammar. Of what use is a 158 V score for a STEM application if you cannot make at worst a 160 in quant?

sirRiddy:

K-State. 162Q 154V 4.5AWA
I literally abandoned verbal about two weeks to my test cos I felt continued
prep on the section was pointless, which I think paid off for me.
Most of us work too hard and less smart.

BeingGabriel:
wow! Deep bants there. But your undergrad GPA must have been >4.0, right?

And with that score...why Kansas State?

sirRiddy:

Funding, K-State had the best offer. GPA was 3.28/4 which is 3.6/5 on our scale.

BeingGabriel:
Oh, OK. STEM?

Sorry about the barrage of questions.

sirRiddy:
Yeah, I am in the CS PhD program.
I do not mind the questions at all.
Are you interested in grad school or in grad school?

BeingGabriel:
Yea, may I send u an email?