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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Officialhow(m): 11:02pm On Jul 30, 2018
Olalekank:

Hello, we're in the same shoes!

1. No problem whatsoever. GRE is valid for 5 years.
2. No other means of identification apart from the international passport is accepted at the venue of the exams.
3. Soft copies are everywhere, check the front page of the thread. Register with BY Mafit and get extra bonuses.

GOD BLESS Yo
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 11:03pm On Jul 30, 2018
Hello house,

Please i need materials for SAT for my sister. Please can someone help me biko.

Tonisageweb@gmail.com

You could send to that mail.

Thanks
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Olalekank(m): 12:52am On Jul 31, 2018
Officialhow:

GOD BLESS Yo
Amen, let's go kill the exams

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by pronto543(m): 2:47am On Jul 31, 2018
Hello friends,

Here is a breakdown of my Powerprep II practice tests:

TEST 1
Verbal 1: 12/20
Verbal 2: 10/20
Quants 1: 19/20
Quants 2: 16/20

V: 153/170
Q: 163/170
COMBINED: 316/340

TEST 2
Verbal 1: 14/20
Verbal 2: 09/20
Quants 1: 18/20
Quants 2: 15/20

V: 157/170
Q: 161/170
COMBINED: 318/340

AVERAGE P1+P2 SCORES: V:155/160; Q:162/170

I need useful suggestions on how to hit 320+ on the D-day (August 6th). I was unable to hit 320 in the Practice Set in the Official set. My combined score was 313. I have reviewed the answers and would do the 2nd practice set tomorrow.

I observed the Powerprep algorithmn for inscrutable particularly for the Quants section. Haven scored 35/40 and 34/40 in the first and second tests respectively, I was expecting a scaled score in the range of 164-166. Please can someone suggest to me the reason for the lower scores on my quants.

From what I've read on Quora, the second Powerprep score mirrors the final score closely while the average of the 2 tests varies from the final scores by +/-3points. Although, these are just postulations as the final hurdle might involve some stroke of luck and confidence on the part of the test-taker.

I eagerly your suggestions and inputs folks!

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by minaty: 2:52am On Jul 31, 2018
Alright, thank you
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Olalekank(m): 4:16am On Jul 31, 2018
pronto543:
Hello friends,

Here is a breakdown of my Powerprep II practice tests:

TEST 1
Verbal 1: 12/20
Verbal 2: 10/20
Quants 1: 19/20
Quants 2: 16/20

V: 153/170
Q: 163/170
COMBINED: 316/340

TEST 2
Verbal 1: 14/20
Verbal 2: 09/20
Quants 1: 18/20
Quants 2: 15/20

V: 157/170
Q: 161/170
COMBINED: 318/340

AVERAGE P1+P2 SCORES: V:155/160; Q:162/170

I need useful suggestions on how to hit 320+ on the D-day (August 6th). I was unable to hit 320 in the Practice Set in the Official set. My combined score was 313. I have reviewed the answers and would do the 2nd practice set tomorrow.

I observed the Powerprep algorithmn for inscrutable particularly for the Quants section. Haven scored 35/40 and 34/40 in the first and second tests respectively, I was expecting a scaled score in the range of 164-166. Please can someone suggest to me the reason for the lower scores on my quants.

From what I've read on Quora, the second Powerprep score mirrors the final score closely while the average of the 2 tests varies from the final scores by +/-3points. Although, these are just postulations as the final hurdle might involve some stroke of luck and confidence on the part of the test-taker.

I eagerly your suggestions and inputs folks!
IMO, try to analyse the topics where you might have flunked and try to read up and understand those topics. Since there are 7 days left, my advise is to test new waters by practicing, practicing and practicing and learning new topics and tricks. Hopefully this should raise you to your targeted score of >320
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by tactmayor: 5:31am On Jul 31, 2018
aanexplus:

No pressure man.
Illinois Institute of Technology - admit
Uttyler - admit
Virginia Tech - admit
Western Michigan - admit
Notre dame - reject

The vocabs were useful, I saw some of them in the test. And learning them make me feel confident sort of. All the best man

were u funded by VT??
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Officialhow(m): 5:57am On Jul 31, 2018
Olalekank:
Amen, let's go kill the exams
What program are you going for bruh?
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Olalekank(m): 7:02am On Jul 31, 2018
Officialhow:

What program are you going for bruh?
ms, cs or cyber security fall2020
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by kfrosh: 7:10am On Jul 31, 2018
Hello guys! Please do I have a chance of getting admits into a Masters program in tier 2 schools wit a low CGPA of 2.37. Around 2.5/4 US scale.

Please someone should boost my morale. Looking at Energy Engineering.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Olalekank(m): 7:31am On Jul 31, 2018
kfrosh:
Hello guys! Please do I have a chance of getting admits into a Masters program in tier 2 schools wit a low CGPA of 2.37. Around 2.5/4 US scale.

Please someone should boost my morale. Looking at Energy Engineering.
Anything is possible. There are schools that accept your CGPA. You can boost your profile with other documents like the SOP (where you can explain the reason for the supposedly low CGPA), LOR, research experience, high GRE and TOEFL scores.

These would do a great job in improving your chances of getting admitted amongst other applicants.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by kfrosh: 8:42am On Jul 31, 2018
Thanks. Working on my GRE already.
Olalekank:

Anything is possible. There are schools that accept your CGPA. You can boost your profile with other documents like the SOP (where you can explain the reason for the supposedly low CGPA), LOR, research experience, high GRE and TOEFL scores.

These would do a great job in improving your chances of getting admitted amongst other applicants.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by fabyom: 12:46pm On Jul 31, 2018
Epithet:


It's been almost a year since I took my test, I might not recall perfectly the nature of the exams. However, in my honest opinion the quant on the exam day was a little bit Harder than the powerprep content. But I also used the Manhattan 8 Series with harder questions than the actual exam, so it helps to raise your practice beyond the difficulty level. The Verbal seems like a replica in difficulty and my test scores and exam scores reflected that. All I said here should have been mentioned in a few of my posts . Goodluck with your prep.
hi epithet, please can I get the Manhattan 8 series and other materials from you
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Scholastica16: 3:53pm On Jul 31, 2018
mfarad:


@Scholastica16 Hey man! Long time no jam. Trust you're doing great?

Long time my good man. I have been doing summer job to earn a little. Barely have time for anything else based on timezone. What is the latest? I prayed for you.

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Scholastica16: 3:55pm On Jul 31, 2018
eastafro:

ayy scholastica ,what's up man ? you a real G around here man. I really appreciate you man .
actually I'm more interested in Canadian schools , would you happen to have insight on Canadian schools ? maybe you have friends there ? kiss
ayy scholastica ,what's up man ? you a real G around here man. I really appreciate you man .
okay I will try to practice more .
actually I'm more interested in Canadian schools , would you happen to have insight on Canadian schools ? maybe you have friends there?

Canadian schools are great as well. "Cheaper" but with far less chance of funding. Don't know much about them any more because few people I know there did advanced diplomas and got jobs right after.

Cheers.

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Scholastica16: 4:01pm On Jul 31, 2018
pronto543:
Hello friends,

Here is a breakdown of my Powerprep II practice tests:

TEST 1
Verbal 1: 12/20
Verbal 2: 10/20
Quants 1: 19/20
Quants 2: 16/20

V: 153/170
Q: 163/170
COMBINED: 316/340

TEST 2
Verbal 1: 14/20
Verbal 2: 09/20
Quants 1: 18/20
Quants 2: 15/20

V: 157/170
Q: 161/170
COMBINED: 318/340

AVERAGE P1+P2 SCORES: V:155/160; Q:162/170

I need useful suggestions on how to hit 320+ on the D-day (August 6th). I was unable to hit 320 in the Practice Set in the Official set. My combined score was 313. I have reviewed the answers and would do the 2nd practice set tomorrow.

I observed the Powerprep algorithmn for inscrutable particularly for the Quants section. Haven scored 35/40 and 34/40 in the first and second tests respectively, I was expecting a scaled score in the range of 164-166. Please can someone suggest to me the reason for the lower scores on my quants.

From what I've read on Quora, the second Powerprep score mirrors the final score closely while the average of the 2 tests varies from the final scores by +/-3points. Although, these are just postulations as the final hurdle might involve some stroke of luck and confidence on the part of the test-taker.

I eagerly your suggestions and inputs folks!

The diagnostics report always states questions of easy, medium and hard difficulty levels. Based on this, hard questions have a greater weight on the final weighted score. And the 2nd batch of Qs always have more harder questions than the first based on good first performances so that could skew the score favourably if one does well in them. For e.g, scoring 18 in the first and 18 in the second can give one a weighted score of 166-167 in the Q if the hard questions were part of the 18 raw scores got. Whereas someone else can get 20 and 16 (2nd) and get a scaled score of 163-165 because they got only one of the hard questions and flunked the remainder 4. It is a function of getting those difficult questions right summarily.

As per your preparations, you are doing well. Just forget the aspects you always get right and solve more questions related to the areas you seem to make mistakes in. Some people take inventory of their mistakes and if they see that they have missed more than one question on the said topic like "Probability", they go back to solve a ton of questions on the topic just to become more accurate.

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by aanexplus(m): 5:26pm On Jul 31, 2018
tactmayor:


were u funded by VT??

Right. I missed that out.

VT and WMU funded me. Uttyler don't really fund.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Josonas: 6:01am On Aug 01, 2018
Xup Aanu...Its been a while ooo,how is studies bro?
aanexplus:


Right. I missed that out.

VT and WMU funded me. Uttyler don't really fund.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by haroldlewis2: 8:59am On Aug 01, 2018
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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by omofola93: 10:38am On Aug 01, 2018
Hello everyone, I'm an avid follower of this thread, and it has been really enlightening. Please I want to ask when would be the best time to write GRE towards admission in Sept. 2019.

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Olalekank(m): 10:45am On Aug 01, 2018
omofola93:
Hello everyone, I'm an avid follower of this thread, and it has been really enlightening. Please I want to ask when would be the best time to write GRE towards admission in Sept. 2019.
You can start preparing NOW to write in October as that's when most schools start receiving applications
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by omofola93: 10:53am On Aug 01, 2018
Thanks so much for the swift response.
Olalekank:

You can start preparing NOW to write in October as that's when most schools start receiving applications
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by mayort12(f): 2:47pm On Aug 01, 2018
Hi everyone, nice work on this thread. I've been following this thread faithfully and I'm not done yet. I just really need answers to some questions, I'm pleading that the good people on this thread assist me.
1.pls what's the major difference between spring and fall? I already googled it, I just need clarification.
2. Who knows the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma please, they said they accept admission on a rolling basis, can anyone help me understand the meaning of the rolling basis pls?
3. I'm a biochemistry graduate,
Cgpa- 4.69,
Ielts-7.0
Preparing to take the Gre in October,
What are my chances of funding and please, please, I won't mind school suggestions too.
Thanks in anticipation..
Scholastica sir, sir Riddy, Quoran, time2smile and everyone else, please...
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Quoran: 3:01pm On Aug 01, 2018
1. SPRING - January Admission ; FALL - August Admission
2. They accept applications at anytime of the year. No deadlines. From my own observations, schools with such rolling applications have limited funding. I may be wrong though. Check the faculty members webpages and the graduate admissions page also.
3. Your chances are bright. Start your research early. Know what your target schools want. Do well on the GRE. Read this thread thoroughly ( I know you have started that already!) I really cannot suggest schools to you because Biochemistry it is not my area of interest.

All the best.


mayort12:
Hi everyone, nice work on this thread. I've been following this thread faithfully and I'm not done yet. I just really need answers to some questions, I'm pleading that the good people on this thread assist me.
1.pls what's the major difference between spring and fall? I already googled it, I just need clarification.
2. Who knows the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma please, they said they accept admission on a rolling basis, can anyone help me understand the meaning of the rolling basis pls?
3. I'm a biochemistry graduate,
Cgpa- 4.69,
Ielts-7.0
Preparing to take the Gre in October,
What are my chances of funding and please, please, I won't mind school suggestions too.
Thanks in anticipation..
Scholastica sir, sir Riddy, Quoran, time2smile and everyone else, please...
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by papilo90(m): 4:47pm On Aug 01, 2018
Good evening here.
Please is it possible for someone who haven't registered to take the simulation tests (like powerprep and co). I really wish to know what level I'm on before full involvement.

Please anyone with the Manhattan 8 Series should please send me on mytochondria90@gmail.com
Thank you.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 6:31pm On Aug 01, 2018
Good evening here,

Please i need SAT materials

You could help by sending them to Tonisage321@gmail.com
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by aanexplus(m): 7:48pm On Aug 01, 2018
Josonas:
Xup Aanu...Its been a while ooo,how is studies bro?

Studies dey baba mi. We dey push am
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by pronto543(m): 8:54pm On Aug 01, 2018
Scholastica16:


The diagnostics report always states questions of easy, medium and hard difficulty levels. Based on this, hard questions have a greater weight on the final weighted score. And the 2nd batch of Qs always have more harder questions than the first based on good first performances so that could skew the score favourably if one does well in them. For e.g, scoring 18 in the first and 18 in the second can give one a weighted score of 166-167 in the Q if the hard questions were part of the 18 raw scores got. Whereas someone else can get 20 and 16 (2nd) and get a scaled score of 163-165 because they got only one of the hard questions and flunked the remainder 4. It is a function of getting those difficult questions right summarily.

As per your preparations, you are doing well. Just forget the aspects you always get right and solve more questions related to the areas you seem to make mistakes in. Some people take inventory of their mistakes and if they see that they have missed more than one question on the said topic like "Probability", they go back to solve a ton of questions on the topic just to become more accurate.

Thank you so much for the in-depth analysis of GRE scoring. I will take the suggestions to heart and work on them.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by pronto543(m): 8:58pm On Aug 01, 2018
Olalekank:

IMO, try to analyse the topics where you might have flunked and try to read up and understand those topics. Since there are 7 days left, my advise is to test new waters by practicing, practicing and practicing and learning new topics and tricks. Hopefully this should raise you to your targeted score of >320

Thank you for your suggestion. It is highly insightful. I am trying my best to improve by identifying my weak areas and hopefully hitting my target.

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by mfarad(m): 9:02pm On Aug 01, 2018
Scholastica16:


Long time my good man. I have been doing summer job to earn a little. Barely have time for anything else based on timezone. What is the latest? I prayed for you.

Way to go man! Totally understand. Really appreciate your prayers. smiley I've deferred my WVU admission till Fall 2019, and God willing, I'd be applying to at least 2 other schools for Fall 2019... Contemplating retaking the GRE as well (crazy work schedule)... Btw, do you still check your NL mail?

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