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Epithet:
Exam day, I consider myself a staid person, so I was pretty relaxed maybe too relaxed, after check in procedures that took almost an hour. The essays were easy to tackle, I had VQVQV the quants didn't seem as hard as I expected maybe the Manhattan prep had raised my level, I guess I made a few mistakes though because I expected a better quant score. Reported my scores 162V 164Q 326, maybe I used easy a lot in my post don't mind me, and surprisingly after the exams I was not tired. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this story and if you haven't gone through the forum from page 1 until date you're missing a lot of valuable information.

Sent my scores to four schools
Purdue, Pennstate, Louisiana state university and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Profile
GPA: 3.75/4 Wes conversion
Course: Chemical Engineering
Research interest: Renewable Energy
TOEFL: Yet to give

#Fall 2018 Yes we can

I am not surprised by this at all; Your contributions here have been immense and I sensed you were preparing well. Very competitive schools you have there but you would match most of the profiles there so I am expectant for you.

Direct PhD or MSc apps?

geejayjax:
i just learnt i'll b needing my internationa passport for the exam, as the one i av is expired, who can help with steps and cost of renewal. thanks

They are only going to check if the face and name match yours. I doubt the proctors take note of the expiry date as it means nothing to them. The International passport is only a means of identification to them nothing else.

That being said, still work on getting it renewed.

PHEEEMMMY:
Hello scholars,
I sent an email to a professor for a graduate assistantship position. I got this email in return :
"Thank you for your interest in my research and lab group. At this stage, I am still in the first stage of evaluating the pool of applicants for the position. I will keep you posted about how things evolve, and whether I think it’s worthwhile to apply for the position. It may make sense to have a phone or skype conversation at that point. Thanks for your interest"
I was trying to interpret what he meant. Does it mean I should be preparing towards an interview or something?. Thank you

Someone rightly explained it; he is overwhelmed by the deluge of applications he has received and until he works through it, does not feel the need to accept more. But if you are willing to Skype with him, you can make his job easier as it serves as a better means of assessing you.

adeyinka09:
While we wait for positive feedbacks from all GRE test takers today, Let me quickly identify myself as one of those people. I gave it a trial again today at JKK. I think I saw the score coming. My preparation has been so erratic due to work pressure. I just have to write this and let it off my mind. GRE is all about enough practice and dedication. However I never have luxury of such. I believe my score truly belie my academic capability and i must find a way to defend that in my SOP. How I wish I could have the time, its achievable but I know I dont have it.So I have to make do with the little time I have.
My Little profile
Intended Course:Msc Food science
GPA: 4.5/5.0
TOEFL:93
GRE: 301
Selected schools(I was forced to change the schools)
University of Arkansas
Missouri state University
Oklahoma State University
Iowa State University
Ccc scholastica,Drhopeful, Time2shine,Ndawe Adetola007,Femi12 and other egbons. Thanks all

I understand and the adcoms do too. Not many people have the time to give the GRE the dedication it demands. Nevertheless, your GPA is strong and like we always say, the GRE is just 1 aspect. Work on the others and the GRE would hardly matter.

I wish you the very best.

abid4akin:
Pls, can anyone help with reporting my ETS test scores to schools.. None of the payment methods here works.

Use B.Y MAFIT.

Google them.

TheZed:
I wrote my Gre for a third time today all thanks to someone I will forever be grateful to glitteringstar and those wonderful people that used walspring to subsidize gre payments for us all. May you all always be favored by men and God. I had a composite score of 304 (V-148 Q-156).

You always came back. I wish you all the best. Sometimes, that is all a man needs.

Cheers.

GlitteringStar:
Congratulations, bro. Let all the glory be to God. I'm so glad you got your desired score this time around. I wish you God's favour in all your endeavours.

thank you very much ma

Scholastica16:
You always came back. I wish you all the best. Sometimes, that is all a man needs.

Cheers.

thanks very much

Epithet:
So I had my GRE today at Galaxy Uniprep Abuja. Please note my post is a bit weird relative of the typical GRE experience. I decided to take the GRE sometime last year searched online and saw this forum, I was inspired by great scores here to all my bosses I hail.

Now to my experience I paid for my GRE around August with walspring's GRE discount Boss I'm definitely grateful for this. Preparation became intense after that though I had gone through a few materials sometime last year I had to revisit each one. I used the Manhattan 8 Series Great Book for Quant, and the Princeton review for Verbal Scholastica16 recommended this, thanks Boss it was helpful. I had gone through the Ets material both quant and verbal before I paid for the exam so I decided to delve into other resources. I watched the magoosh premium videos, those I could get my hands on twice. I definitely recommend that also, for the lesson videos I only went through relevant math topics I had issues with, combination, probability and counting and word problems.

Forward to a month before my exam I systemically went through the Manhattan flash cards the quant was extremely useful the verbal on the other hand had a plethora of words though they may not exactly be GRE esque. You might want to revise well, I think I revised each material I read well like twice or thrice for the ets materials.

I tool the powerprep II and the ets paper test in the week leading to my test, scores were within the range of 325-332, let me chime in here the quant in paper section seemed to easy I didn't have any problem with all question except 1, while I made a few mistakes in the power prep.

Exam day, I consider myself a staid person, so I was pretty relaxed maybe too relaxed, after check in procedures that took almost an hour. The essays were easy to tackle, I had VQVQV the quants didn't seem as hard as I expected maybe the Manhattan prep had raised my level, I guess I made a few mistakes though because I expected a better quant score. Reported my scores 162V 164Q 326, maybe I used easy a lot in my post don't mind me, and surprisingly after the exams I was not tired. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this story and if you haven't gone through the forum from page 1 until date you're missing a lot of valuable information.

Sent my scores to four schools
Purdue, Pennstate, Louisiana state university and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Profile
GPA: 3.75/4 Wes conversion
Course: Chemical Engineering
Research interest: Renewable Energy
TOEFL: Yet to give

#Fall 2018 Yes we can

Please bro. Send me the materials you used to my mail.

Chigozie.okafor@unn.edu.ng thanks

Scholastica16:
You always came back. I wish you all the best. Sometimes, that is all a man needs.

Cheers.

Please how can I subsidize my gre payments ?

Please help me. Thanks

frostsc:
First off, I wish to thank everyone who has posted and commented in one capacity or the other on this forum. Without you, this would not have been a reality. I stumbled on this forum by chance and at which time, I knew nothing about the GRE or study abroad. Of course I knew that people do study abroad, but I was not too cognitive of the process and all until I got here and was inspired by the various success stories.

Like my fore fathers here, I registered with B.Y Mafit and that was the singular wise choice I made cos everything revolves around them. I attended the free TOEFL and Free GRE classes. Got the Magoosh account, Kaplan Text, Official Guide and other materials given during lectures and group studies. Took the TOEFL classes for a month and the GRE classes for 6 weeks. Though free, they were very very vigorous. Wrote the TOEFL first. I'll share that experience another time since this is a GRE forum. I scored 110 though (There was a guy at Mafit who scored 115. Couldn't beat that target ). I did not read lots of textbooks. I just used the classes as my main study and did the additional practice recommended by our instructor (Enitan). Since that worked, I decided to use that principle for the GRE and it worked as well.

Wrote my GRE amidst lots of tension. The night before, I could not sleep. God punish tension . Had running stomach on the day of the exam and I started reciting all the psalms I could munster. . Was great though. The group discussions at Mafit helped, as we were fond of dealing with very difficult analytical questions. My advice is that while preparing, do not scratch the surface. Go really really deep. The more complex questions you tackle, the faster it would be to tackle the easier ones. Also, be true and sincere with yourself. For me, after I registered with BY Mafit, I didnt pick a date till I was well into the lectures and knew exactly what time I needed to be fully ready.

At the end, I scored 164 on the verbal and 162 on the quant. I know of a guy at Mafit (Dada) who scored 166 and 158 respectively. I already mailed my school and I was told I have the chances of getting full funding. I have sent other documents to them prior to this.

Once again, thank you all for helping nudge me in the right path. Now lets wait for the final decision on funding and start fasting so the VO will be nice . I sent this to Mafit to post but I guess they didn't so I had to sign up to post it myself. My advice for everyone would be to be focused and have a clear target and pursue it vigorously. Also, set aside everything to focus on this. It means a lot and it could change your life story.

Please which school did you apply to ?

Also could you please send me the materials you used for your gre prep to Chigozie.okafor@unn.edu thanks bro

athorello:
So I took the GRE 28th of last month here in PH.
Results summary:
Verbal: 157
Quant: 160
AWA: 4

Shockingly, I scored exactly 317 on my second powerprep test 3 days to my test date. I was only able to increase my score by 7 points from my first diagnostic test. Anyway, it was only God who helped me pull through because after totally breaking down for two weeks and getting better two weeks to test date, I discovered that I've lost some things. I just couldn't answer some question types like inferences and logic. Hmm! Including mixing up some subtle maths concepts. OK... What did I do? I gave up on relearning anything. I made a decision to work on my speed and tested that with the 2nd powerprep test. In the end, I scored 156 in verbal and 161 in Quant. While reviewing, I found out that most of my first gueses that I changed in the verbal were actually right (but I always have the challenge and fell for three trap in the actual test). In the quant I got all 20 questions right in the first session and 15/20 in the 2nd.
I had a funny run down to the test.

But my advice...
1. Please try as much as possible to eat something (my first mistake)
2. Take any medication you have to take for any challenge or pains (I went with my drugs but couldn't take them cos of doctor's warning not to take the medication without food)
3. Get as much water (I had finished 2 sachet and almost 1 Eva bottle before check in. Had to beg them to let me go outside the gate to get more water)
4. Pray it doesn't rain all day... Lol
5. Try to be as fast as possible. I was able to go through and review all my verbal answers with speed. I had 3 quant sessions. In two of them, I had 5 and 3 mins left respectively to review my responses and I was sure of not failing more than 1-2 questions per session. For one of the quant sessions, my time expired just before I will submit the answer to number 20 so no time to even review the questions I marked.
Finally, village people almost entered the hall but God pass them. I was noticeably the only one with challenges. Back pains and general body weakness that I'll always rest flat on the desk every second I had to rest before and during the test. My system froze like 4 times during my last two quant sessions. The system was restarted, I was logged back on and the next time it will freeze the screen displayed an Error message so they had to assign a new system.
But when I saw my final scores I was just laughing and smiling. God pass them.

Anyway....
Profile Extra:
BSc Industrial Physics (4.68/5)
MSc Geophysics, 4.85/5 (3.91/4--wes unofficial)
Internship experience
No publication
Seeking a Geophysics PhD (MS is also a go since mehn wan waka)
No English test yet, will soon start working on that.
I believe there are fellas here with good advice for me.

Schools I'm considering right now:
Texas A&M, CS
U. Alabama
Michigan Tech
.....if possible U Texas @Austin and Mines ....
I'm open to more suggestions cos I'm not too clear on U. Houston and OU

Please bro send me materials you used for gre prep to my mail chigozie.okafor@unn.edu.ng thanks

Scholastica16:
I am not surprised by this at all; Your contributions here have been immense and I sensed you were preparing well. Very competitive schools you have there but you would match most of the profiles there so I am expectant for you.

Direct PhD or MSc apps?

Direct PhD is the route I have decided for now. I had to streamline these schools based on research interest and available research laboratories. Scholastica16 you've been an example to us all, reading through the forum, I can't but appreciate your efforts and contribution Gracias

Quoran:
You can still get schools to apply to. The only issue is that it might be late for funding. Search online and you will get them. Oregon state university for example have a deadline of January 15th. I'm sure there are many others like that though most of them have a general deadline of December 15th.

ok Sir, thanks for your reply.

I'd appreciate if someone could help with a link to the magoosh videos and Power prep II offline software.

Wow...I'm short of words...congrats to everyone

DanjaNinja:
I guess thats why you are having download issues. Please try a PC with a fast internet connection. That should work. If downloading issues persist, let me know.

Also, post your facebook email address so i can add you to the group. Once you have been added to the group, Click the "Files" section on the top right corner and you will get all the materials you want.

I have gotten the mail but I don't know if you have an updated or recent version of those study materials.
I'm looking at writing next month and I have not even started reading.
Please also add me to the Facebook group.
Please my mail is axg_007007@yahoo.com

TheZed:
I wrote my Gre for a third time today all thanks to someone I will forever be grateful to glitteringstar and those wonderful people that used walspring to subsidize gre payments for us all. May you all always be favored by men and God. I had a composite score of 304 (V-148 Q-156).

powerful score. congrats sir. kindly send the materials u used to kamaldeenakanni@gmail.com

Epithet:
So I had my GRE today at Galaxy Uniprep Abuja. Please note my post is a bit weird relative of the typical GRE experience. I decided to take the GRE sometime last year searched online and saw this forum, I was inspired by great scores here to all my bosses I hail.

Now to my experience I paid for my GRE around August with walspring's GRE discount Boss I'm definitely grateful for this. Preparation became intense after that though I had gone through a few materials sometime last year I had to revisit each one. I used the Manhattan 8 Series Great Book for Quant, and the Princeton review for Verbal Scholastica16 recommended this, thanks Boss it was helpful. I had gone through the Ets material both quant and verbal before I paid for the exam so I decided to delve into other resources. I watched the magoosh premium videos, those I could get my hands on twice. I definitely recommend that also, for the lesson videos I only went through relevant math topics I had issues with, combination, probability and counting and word problems.

Forward to a month before my exam I systemically went through the Manhattan flash cards the quant was extremely useful the verbal on the other hand had a plethora of words though they may not exactly be GRE esque. You might want to revise well, I think I revised each material I read well like twice or thrice for the ets materials.

I tool the powerprep II and the ets paper test in the week leading to my test, scores were within the range of 325-332, let me chime in here the quant in paper section seemed to easy I didn't have any problem with all question except 1, while I made a few mistakes in the power prep.

Exam day, I consider myself a staid person, so I was pretty relaxed maybe too relaxed, after check in procedures that took almost an hour. The essays were easy to tackle, I had VQVQV the quants didn't seem as hard as I expected maybe the Manhattan prep had raised my level, I guess I made a few mistakes though because I expected a better quant score. Reported my scores 162V 164Q 326, maybe I used easy a lot in my post don't mind me, and surprisingly after the exams I was not tired. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this story and if you haven't gone through the forum from page 1 until date you're missing a lot of valuable information.

Sent my scores to four schools
Purdue, Pennstate, Louisiana state university and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Profile
GPA: 3.75/4 Wes conversion
Course: Chemical Engineering
Research interest: Renewable Energy
TOEFL: Yet to give

#Fall 2018 Yes we can

great scores sir. congrats kindly send me the materials you used to kamaldeenakanni@gmail.com

Please anyone who has the POWERPREP application should kindly forward to my email address belloabimbola68@yahoo.com .... I would be so glad... Have to rewrite the GRE exam earnestly so as to meet up with December 15 deadline... Thanks

atiteb4:
powerful score. congrats sir. kindly send the materials u used to kamaldeenakanni@gmail.com

it is 304 I scored oo not 340...lol

Alright, About the materials

click to download free PDF and educational course materials http://vializer.com/2gJw

A quick question. Can we give a rough estimate of the amount that might be required for application and examz et all .

Scholastica16:
I understand and the adcoms do too. Not many people have the time to give the GRE the dedication it demands. Nevertheless, your GPA is strong and like we always say, the GRE is just 1 aspect. Work on the others and the GRE would hardly matter.

I wish you the very best.

Thanks bro..I appreciate your comment

Guitarlife:
A quick question. Can we give a rough estimate of the amount that might be required for application and examz et all .

It depends on how many schools you eventually decide to apply, and whether you take the TOEFL or not, I would advice you should it helps boost ones profile, so to your question GRE and TOEFL roughly 100K, application fees to a number of schools more or less your choice, around the same amount so there you've it, 150-250K depending on your capacity

Epithet:
It depends on how many schools you eventually decide to apply, and whether you take the TOEFL or not, I would advice you should it helps boost ones profile, so to your question GRE and TOEFL roughly 100K, application fees to a number of schools more or less your choice, around the same amount so there you've it, 150-250K depending on your capacity

Thanks bro, can I have you on whatsapp ?

Help! Help!! Help!!!
GRE is next tomorrow. I have taken a good number of full length practice tests. 3 marks short of my target composite score is d best I have achieved. Powerprep scores are 5-7 marks below the target scores. While the verbal is improving with RC my major problem is silly mistakes I make in Quantitative Reasoning. After doing the hard part of breaking problems down I just blow it by making mistakes like leaving out - negative sign or something. I am just kinda not comfortable.


Kindly advise on what I may do at this eleventh hour. Thank you.

Please Bro send me the powerprep to chigozie.okafor@unn.edu.ng

Hello fam,

So I have my first decision.
In at Vanderbilt; still waiting on interview decisions at Duke and UT@Austin.

Anyone here in Nashville?

gokuu:
Hello fam,

So I have my first decision.
In at Vanderbilt; still waiting on interview decisions at Duke and UT@Austin.

Anyone here in Nashville?

Congrats. Any form of funding attached

gokuu:
Hello fam,
So I have my first decision. In at Vanderbilt; still waiting on interview decisions at Duke and UT@Austin.
Anyone here in Nashville?

congratulations... funding?

EZEIGBO1OFIMO:
congratulations... funding?

So its Business School; funding and assistantships are not a traditional feature of the programs. I got partial tuition, but will see about assistantships if they are available.