Scholastica16:


TBH with you, this question is poorly constructed because it strays from the actual GRE format of RC questions. There are so many loopholes in it.

1. Entepreneurship businesses may or may not be high-value. It was wrong for the question to call them high-value businesses all in a bid to dissemble the main idea.

2. Recession does not necessarily mean a loss of jobs or high unemployment rate. It could just be that the economy of the said nation was not buoyant at the point in time.

Anyways my answer will have to be the last option E or 5. It is not clear what happened to the number of founded businesses. They may have been way less than projected and in that case, be negatively alarming or they may have increased far more than was predicted in that way be positively alarming. The passage only told us that while the unemployment rate was far worse than what was even expected, IT IS NOT CLEAR if the number of enterpreneurs were equally alarming.

The equally alarming part is the trap because one may be forced to think that since the sentence started with "while" and stated that unemployment rates were getting worse, then the number of new businesses will be getting better. But the passage clearly says we are not sure. Also, one can argue that equally alarming means that the number of new businesses was lower but one could not tell if they were lower than predicted. To take that position one had to assume that the alarming part was negative and we cannot infer that from the part of the passage. So I still think it is the last option.

Excellent! You really amazed me bro, not just the fact that you got the answer correctly, but the way and manner you're able to sieve through the question stem and passage, while simultaneously paying great attention to details in arriving at the right answer is simply classical.

Firstly, the question is from essential GRE app which has several short passages of sort, though, varying in degree of complexity. Nevertheless, it follow to some extent what you describe earlier about similar word in question and the passage.

Secondly, you're able to accurately dissect and analysis the question stem, and able to locate the main area of the passage needed to answer the question while noting the 'trap' within. This summarize how one can aptly use the strategy you're advocating here.

Thanks once again for that detailed explanation. Here is the screenshot of the result.

Is it usual not to receive official scores more than 15 days after writing the GRE? Or is it just me freaking out unnecessarily? ETS seems not be keeping to their word of 10-15 days after date of test. Urrrgggghhhhh. These ETS peeps are delaying my apps. I need to self report scores in my apps.

drhopeful:
Is it usual not to receive official scores more than 15 days after writing the GRE? Or is it just me freaking out unnecessarily? ETS seems not be keeping to their word of 10-15 days after date of test. Urrrgggghhhhh. These ETS peeps are delaying my apps. I need to self report scores in my apps.

How do you expect to receive the scores? Have you checked your ETS account? If yes, send them a mail about the urgency to gre-info@ets.org. Be calm. God is in charge.

Hello everyone, being a long time out of here. If you're currently prepping for the GRE, keep at it. Try as much as you can to be at your best on test day, and emerge with top scores afterwards. It's a simple cost/benefit issue. Pay the cost now and enjoy the benefits later.

drhopeful:
Hi @seeker88, have you received your official scores?

Yes bro, my official scores are out including d AWA....wasn't impressed with my score in d AWA, thought I'd score better. It was 3.5
How about you?

drhopeful:
Is it usual not to receive official scores more than 15 days after writing the GRE? Or is it just me freaking out unnecessarily? ETS seems not be keeping to their word of 10-15 days after date of test. Urrrgggghhhhh. These ETS peeps are delaying my apps. I need to self report scores in my apps.

I'm just seeing this now.....this is strange!!!
I received my scores on October 30th. I received an email informing me of d availability of my scores, n when I logged in to my profile, I saw my scores. Have u tried logging into ur GRE profile to check?

seeker88:

I'm just seeing this now.....this is strange!!!
I received my scores on October 30th. I received an email informing me of d availability of my scores, n when I logged in to my profile, I saw my scores. Have u tried logging into ur GRE profile to check?

I have been checking my account a million times a day for the last one week. Nothing till now. I called ETS this afternoon and I was told to call back on Monday with a case number to investigate why I have not received my scores yet.

It is really strange. For my first test, I got my official scores 8 days after. Now I am extremely nervous! We took the test same day at the same centre. So what could be wrong with my result?

I've been quietly following this thread from the first page and I enjoy reading every bit of contributions here. I'm still an undergraduate though and yet I know quite a number of things as regards post graduate schokarship and writing proficiency exams.
I really appreciate you all sirs and mas.

LadunaI:


Thanks @Scholastica16 for this beautiful elucidation, it was whole inspiring and gratifying.

The strategy you're proposing is nice and mastering over time would be excellent.

By the way, I found this epigram passage but very intriguing when applying your strategy. Can you take a look and analysis it for the benefit of us all?

See below screenshot

Excuse me, what app is that?

sirRiddy:
No I do not know about the department.
I wish all the best in your applications.

please check ur mail, pm'ed u..

I have a question.
I want to apply to Kansas State. I went to their departmental page and it is written you must attach Affidavit of Financial Support Form to your application before being admitted. I am applying for a PHD program and I need TA or RA,so why should I submit this? Does it mean KSU wont support me. Please reply @sirRiddy.

Hello folks. looking for fully funded/research assistantship in animal science for Phd.
Bsc= 4.16/5.00
Msc=5.4/7.00
thanks!

Good day everyone. Even with a score you think might not be too good, there are several schools with varying GRE score requirements. You'll be surprised to knw that even wit a score less than 300, you still have almost a hundred schools whose requirements you are well qualified for. For a comprehensive list of all schools in the US as well as their Revised GRE Score Requirements. Pls email me at grecoach@outlook.com.(This pack comes with several GRE textbooks and study materials all in pdf format).. Cheers

Leyqute:


Excuse me, what app is that?

Second on the list...you can get it from Google Play store.

See the shot below:

galsontherock:
I have a question.
I want to apply to Kansas State. I went to their departmental page and it is written you must attach Affidavit of Financial Support Form to your application before being admitted. I am applying for a PHD program and I need TA or RA,so why should I submit this? Does it mean KSU wont support me. Please reply @sirRiddy.

KSU will support you. On the application portal, once you click you don't have funds, you won't be asked to upload Affidavit of Financial Support.

Good day guys, i'm new here and I saw something bout a whats app group, I'm intensely preping for GRE too and i'll need all the help I can get.
Zero eight zero three nine four six two zero two three
Thank you guys

GREcoach:
Good day everyone. Even with a score you think might not be too good, there are several schools with varying GRE score requirements. You'll be surprised to knw that even wit a score less than 300, you still have almost a hundred schools whose requirements you are well qualified for. For a comprehensive list of all schools in the US as well as their Revised GRE Score Requirements. Pls email me at grecoach@outlook.com.(This pack comes with several GRE textbooks and study materials all in pdf format).. Cheers

I sent you mail coach, please assist. From kelechi

Hello folks. looking for fully funded/research assistantship in animal science for Phd.
Bsc= 4.16/5.00
Msc=5.4/7.00
list of schools I have catalogued and enquiried about include:
1. university of Missouri
2. university of Florida
3. university of Georgia
4. university of Kentucky
what's your take on this?

ridsan4real:
Hello folks. looking for fully funded/research assistantship in animal science for Phd.
Bsc= 4.16/5.00
Msc=5.4/7.00
list of schools I have catalogued and enquiried about include:
1. university of Missouri
2. university of Florida
3. university of Georgia
4. university of Kentucky
what's your take on this?

I think the first step is asking the Grad cord of each school if they have funding, could be Grad., teaching/ research assistant. If they have, for research asst. You will be advised to approach potential advisors that will sponsor you with their research fund. Especially for a Ph.D position you need a potential advisor to take you in.

Hi @sirriddy you said here around last yr that you did a WES evaluation for your transcript. I need to do that for a school also. Now what I want to ask is, how did you go about it; did you upload your official transcript yourself to WES or did your school send the transcript? Also, is it WES Basic evalution you used or WES ICAP?
I await your reply, thanks.

Scholastica16:


“The events of future history… will be of the same nature – or nearly so – as the history of the past, so long as men are men”

-Thucydides (Great historian)

I could have yanked this sentence from a more involved passage and still be able to answer a question centred on it- just by reading it.

The author of the passage may have been making a case for how trends in human character or history haven't changed much because the beliefs responsible for keeping them that way are unchanged and at the end of the passage be recommending a solution or change.

But that will only help you when trying to understand his primary purpose for writing the passage.

On the surface and just by understanding the quoted statement, if a question was asked saying:

"The author cites Thucydides because?"

1. Thucydides was an expert at human history
2. To serve as an example of why men will be men
3. The events of future and past history are always the same.
4. To buttress his earlier point that past events barely differ from what could happen further down the line.
5. Men's attitude never changes.

The answer may appear confusing to someone who attempted reading the whole 55-line essay because s/he would be bogged down by the details there in. Some of the details of the passage may have mentioned or introduced Thucydides as one whom people respected because of his vast knowledge of history.

The passage may have also contained information stating that men's attitude on average remain the same over time.

These details, no matter how valuable, are extraneous to answering the question because they may either be merely supporting an idea, or just be fillers used to bulk up the whole literature.

#1 will not be the answer but it may be a good trap for someone who read the whole passage. Yes, Thucydides was an expert and most people like to quote experts but is that why the author referenced him? (Remember your answer must be something you can pinpoint directly in the passage).

#2 is an offpoint and actually fatuous answer and the ETS testmakers always include such an option. Many test takers will not fall for this except they randomly guess in a haste or with time quickly elapsing.

#3 is another good trap because it uses words in almost the exact manner that the author does, but 9 out of 10 times such answers will be wrong. Since the GRE VR is an open book exam (so to speak), the test makers will never make selecting the right answer so easy or obvious. This answer is however wrong because of the strong word ALWAYS. So in dire situations you can almost always eliminate extreme answer choices such as this.

#4 is obviously the answer and true to nature, the test makers will change the construction of the sentence as much as possible without affecting the main idea behind it. Thucydides was mentioned to give an example of a statement credited by an expert (like #1 suggested) but the author did it to underscore his claim that future history and past history won't differ much if at all they did at all. In other words, the author is saying "what happened in the past will most likely happen in the future because men do not change and Thucydides agrees with me". As you can see, if you were to restate the sentence in your own words you won't get confused no matter how much the testmakers try to contort the sentence.

#5 is not only extreme but it is a ploy at over-inference. The author only said on average men's attitude remain the same and not that it never changes.

Away from all this, how would I have found this answer without necessarily chewing through the whole passage? By using, in this case, "Thucydides" as my keyword and searching for where in the passage it was first used. Chances are, the very first place it was used will be the exact sentence I need to derive my answer and as you can tell, I didn't need whatever came before or after it, just the actual sentence.

Sorry if this post is long or even simplistic but it is the best I could do at this point. With just the right amount of practice, you would begin to see the trends in the RC questions and it will appear alot easier to you.

Remember that ETS has to make each edition of their exams fairly the same so the likelihood that they would repeat a trend is high. In that case, you may not get a 170 with this strategy, but you could definitely get above a 160 (even though this also depends on your SEs and TCs).

finally got to read this long post, though i was not notified when u edited ur 1st quote, can u explain how to get the keywords, cos i get fagged out when reading passages and feel tempted to skip reading the passages. thanks for taking ur time to explain this

I finally wrote the test this afternoon at Lag. Got a score of 158 in QR and 154 in VR. The exam was challenging but I give God the glory, couldn't have done better if I practised more. I will give full gist later.

ToluNewman:
I finally wrote the test this afternoon at Lag. Got a score of 158 in QR and 154 in VR. The exam was challenging but I give God the glory, couldn't have done better if I practised more. I will give full gist later.

Congrats my brother! Great scores. Now go take a chilled bottle of that new lacasera, before we start talking about when you're applying.

@ToluNewman. Good job!
312 is a nice score.

What course are you looking at?

adetola007:

KSU will support you. On the application portal, once you click you don't have funds, you won't be asked to upload Affidavit of Financial Support.

Thanks for answering.

iCool:
@ToluNewman. Good job!
312 is a nice score.

What course are you looking at?

Economics. I wanted at least a 160 in the QR. I am considering writing the exam again.

My school sent my transcripts to WES.
Also, I chose the WES ICAP option.

cc kinematicguy

ToluNewman:


Economics. I wanted at least a 160 in the QR. I am considering writing the exam again.

Same ish I was faced with, scored below 160Q.
I have paid to rewrite though, the decision is yours to make.

iCool:


Same ish I was faced with, scored below 160Q.
I have paid to rewrite though, the decision is yours to make.

abeg, how much you pay?

^50k, B. Y. Mafit.

Pls I learnt that BY Mafit are offering a promo that runs till 15th of this month with a price slash from 65k to 50k for the GRE plus 3 resource materials. Now that sounds too good to be true to me as it leaves me wondering how they will eventually make profit. Please, how genuine are those guys? Just trying to make sure I don't have issues with writing the test or assessing my score or stuffs like that. Anyone who's registered with them and actually written the GRE under them previously here? Pls share your experience. Thanks.