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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Beenkay(f): 12:32am On Nov 24, 2019
EconMajor:
Hello, everyone! I guess this is my first post on this thread since 2017!

I took my first GRE in September 2017 in Port Harcourt.
Total: 302. Quantitative: 149 Analytical Writing: 4.0

My second GRE was on August 9, 2019.
Total: 311. Quantitative: 159 Analytical Writing: 4.5.

The major reasons why I improved my quantitative score by 10 points are because I used better materials to prepare and I was more serious with my second exam. I spent about 90% of my 3 months study period on quant because I knew that I can score at least 150 in verbal and 4 in Analytical writing without serious preparation. For quant preparation, I opened a Word file where I saved important formulas and techniques for further revision. This was important because I had key concepts under my belt during the exam. I didn't get my target score of 160 in the quantitative section but that's fine.

An important lesson I learned from my exams is that mastering good materials is an easy way to improve your score. Future test takers should prioritize Manhattan, Magoosh, ETS guide, ETS math review, ETS powerprep plus, and Princeton Review. Also, taking practice tests are helpful. I took about 12 full-length practice test before my exam and my average scores in these tests are quite close to my main score. You should also have a robust template for the essays, you don't want to spend 2 minutes thinking about how to start your essay.

Complacency and not using the right materials were my greatest undoings when I took my first exam. Fresh out of college with a top GPA, I took the powerprep exam and got 156 in the quantitative section without any preparation. I thought I could do well in GRE without serious preparation. My scores proved me wrong. Actually, I used 7 months to prepare but I wasn't serious, didn't master important techniques, and did no practice test.

All in all, GRE doesn't care about your First Class. You have to respect the exam because it is not easy. Try to calm yourself down on the exam day by reminding yourself how well you have prepared and how competitive the other parts of your application are. If you let the GRE psych you out; you've already started failing!

Good luck to those planning to take the exam!
Please I sent you mail

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Beenkay(f): 1:02am On Nov 24, 2019
Please who has written GRE in Port Harcourt recently or is planning to write next month. I need help on registering and hard copy materials too
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by shams040(m): 5:09am On Nov 24, 2019
Dear All,

Trust you are doing good. Please how best can I get waiver for English and GRE test for Ph.D in US (urban planning).

Got:B.Sc Urban and regional Planning
M.Sc by research in view Civil and Env. Engineering.

1 book chapter published.
2 Review Articles -under review 6.1 and 8.1 ISI impact factor journal
4 Experimental still writing and to be published in high impact factor as well
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 10:10am On Nov 24, 2019
Beenkay:
Please who has written GRE in Port Harcourt recently or is planning to write next month. I need help on registering and hard copy materials too

CONTACT : https:///15023883402
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 10:12am On Nov 24, 2019
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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Chrisbillakings(m): 3:10pm On Nov 24, 2019
Contact me if you need official Ets text.
I have the official text by ETS purchased from them.
For a copy, register and request on the site in my Signature.

Trust me you will get it
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by iamlucky(m): 3:54pm On Nov 25, 2019
Hey guys! Its being awhile. I've been off the grid for a long time. I want to applaud you all for all your efforts in keeping this thread alive. My success story from taking the GRE to becoming a member of EduUSA to gaining a well funded admission all started from here. It was initially a joke until i joined this place and things began to make sense.
Be sure that a postgraduate program is what you really want to do at this stage in your career. Graduate school is demanding, isolating and fun, too.

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Amore1: 4:22pm On Nov 25, 2019
Analar, please I need your help on TOEFL, I want to write the exam also. Kindly Email me how to go about it in Lagos centre, probably the center you register, please I need your help. Am planing for 2020 admission in USA also and I need TOEFL. Please email me at juliusamore6@gmail.com


Try Simon Business School in New York. A friend of mine though from one of the big 4 got a 60% funding with a similar score. Summarily, if you have a stellar work experience with accelerated promotion, you should be fine.

I, myself, I am having them as a backup as I am contemplating 2020 as well.[/quote]
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Amore1: 4:28pm On Nov 25, 2019
Good day Analar,please I need your help on this toefl. I want to write the exam against 2020 admission in USA, kindly help me with the experience you have, how to register and good centre to register with, Am in Lagos Please email me at juliusamore6@gmail.com
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 5:43pm On Nov 25, 2019
Amore1:
Good day Analar,please I need your help on this toefl. I want to write the exam against 2020 admission in USA, kindly help me with the experience you have, how to register and good centre to register with, Am in Lagos Please email me at juliusamore6@gmail.com





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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by ponpon(m): 12:20am On Nov 26, 2019
Admins are needed on this thread. Spamming don take over

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Lexmane(m): 10:46am On Nov 27, 2019
Hi prettygud, I sent you an email. I am interested in the premium account

Prettygud:
I have a magoosh premium account to share with anyone that is interested.

I wrote my GRE today.. Twas not as I expected. As a first time taker, I thought it was just some baby exam. I start prep August, so my prep was just approximately 2 months.

Some bad luck started following me from 6am today when I woke up, I stood straight to stretch, not knowing the fan was not really far up, I ended up cutting my right hand finger nails into two, blood everywhere. This happened because it's not my house, I didn't know the fan was low. I went to a near by chemist to treat my self. This weakened my confidence as I could nearly hold a pen. (don't stretch if u aren't familiar with the room on the day of ur test angry..)
Anyways I got to the centre in abuja 8:40am, the whole check in process was carried out and we started.
I have long Bern praying for 3 quants but after the incident I pray for 3 verbal( which I wasn't good at).
I wrote the test with the pain. Typing wasn't easy. But I know I did well in the AWA, my topics were sweet, straight forward, already worked on similar topics from the ETS pool of essays. I should write about 700 words for each, could have written more if I could be faster.

The first verbal was difficult, then I hard I tough quants, then break, another equally tough verbal, now I knew the first should be the experimental as I didn't really do well. The next quants was lot tougher than most practice test I have taken. What surprise me was that my last verbal was equally tough as the previous ones, I assumed I did well in the previous verbal, probably that's
Why I got another difficult one. Little did I know that I was joking with myself, all fantasy.

I will be having a rewrite by early December, by then I should have solved the mystery of verbal.
And please I will appreciate tips on verbal because I employed all that I knew during the test.

I clicked reports score and there was my 55k staring at me on the screen..
If u register GRE for a cheap price and u are genuine, please send me ur contact.

V152Q164(316) undecided..

I beg coming test takers, forget the learning of big words, the GRE dosent have big words like that, its straight forward.. Learn few words, the common ones, forget advance words and Co.. U can use magoosh flashcard for.. My problem in verbal from practice yes has always been RCs which I sometime get 3 or 4 of 10, but TC and SE are good.

Stick to one material, the most important of all is the ETS materials, all the questions that fly around are not GRE like, some are extremely tougher without clues but GRE TC and SE gives u enough clues, just learn to find it in RCs too, that's my own issue for now..

For quants, ETS is also still the best.. Then u can use magoosh or Manhattan.
Princeton practice test is a very close predictor of your real score.

If u are interested in the magoosh premium account, dm via mail.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Lexmane(m): 10:55am On Nov 27, 2019
316 is a score many of us are actually praying for to be very honest, even though of course, I aim higher.

I am interested in the Magoosh Premium Account Please. My email address: iyandarauf1995@yahoo.com

Thanks and God bless you

Prettygud:
I have a magoosh premium account to share with anyone that is interested.

I wrote my GRE today.. Twas not as I expected. As a first time taker, I thought it was just some baby exam. I start prep August, so my prep was just approximately 2 months.

Some bad luck started following me from 6am today when I woke up, I stood straight to stretch, not knowing the fan was not really far up, I ended up cutting my right hand finger nails into two, blood everywhere. This happened because it's not my house, I didn't know the fan was low. I went to a near by chemist to treat my self. This weakened my confidence as I could nearly hold a pen. (don't stretch if u aren't familiar with the room on the day of ur test angry..)
Anyways I got to the centre in abuja 8:40am, the whole check in process was carried out and we started.
I have long Bern praying for 3 quants but after the incident I pray for 3 verbal( which I wasn't good at).
I wrote the test with the pain. Typing wasn't easy. But I know I did well in the AWA, my topics were sweet, straight forward, already worked on similar topics from the ETS pool of essays. I should write about 700 words for each, could have written more if I could be faster.

The first verbal was difficult, then I hard I tough quants, then break, another equally tough verbal, now I knew the first should be the experimental as I didn't really do well. The next quants was lot tougher than most practice test I have taken. What surprise me was that my last verbal was equally tough as the previous ones, I assumed I did well in the previous verbal, probably that's
Why I got another difficult one. Little did I know that I was joking with myself, all fantasy.

I will be having a rewrite by early December, by then I should have solved the mystery of verbal.
And please I will appreciate tips on verbal because I employed all that I knew during the test.

I clicked reports score and there was my 55k staring at me on the screen..
If u register GRE for a cheap price and u are genuine, please send me ur contact.

V152Q164(316) undecided..

I beg coming test takers, forget the learning of big words, the GRE dosent have big words like that, its straight forward.. Learn few words, the common ones, forget advance words and Co.. U can use magoosh flashcard for.. My problem in verbal from practice yes has always been RCs which I sometime get 3 or 4 of 10, but TC and SE are good.

Stick to one material, the most important of all is the ETS materials, all the questions that fly around are not GRE like, some are extremely tougher without clues but GRE TC and SE gives u enough clues, just learn to find it in RCs too, that's my own issue for now..

For quants, ETS is also still the best.. Then u can use magoosh or Manhattan.
Princeton practice test is a very close predictor of your real score.

If u are interested in the magoosh premium account, dm via mail.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Lexmane(m): 11:24am On Nov 27, 2019
The more I prepare for this GRE, the more nervous and fearful I am.

Is this a normal feeling or I am just being weird?

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 8:14pm On Nov 27, 2019
Lately, people contributing on this thread are gradually dwindling. Perhaps, these set of new applicants (including myself), might not be so lucky to learn a lot from the gurus. Spamming and fake agent have taken over.. lies and deceit are order of the day. No motivation or sharing of infos. This is really sad.

Let’s all endeavor to keep this page active and share every single experience towards advancing knowledge and career prospects..

Thanks

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by analar(f): 10:55am On Nov 28, 2019
Thanks you, will look up their program. Congratulations on your admission offer.


revson:



Try Simon Business School in New York. A friend of mine though from one of the big 4 got a 60% funding with a similar score. Summarily, if you have a stellar work experience with accelerated promotion, you should be fine.

I, myself, I am having them as a backup as I am contemplating 2020 as well.

Interestingly, I just got my offer letter today with 50% funding.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Mideniyi: 12:12pm On Nov 28, 2019
Please I am interested in the magoosh premium account, my mail is mideniyi2017@gmail.com
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 1:30pm On Nov 28, 2019
UPDATE :


Kindly contact for your discount on TOEFL . SAT AND GRE.


Note : FREE STUDY MATERIALS INCLUDED


CONTACT : https:///15023883402
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by insight001: 11:22pm On Nov 28, 2019
Good evening guys.
I would like to know the current price for TOEFL please.

I have been seeing different prices by different educational consults.
ByMafit claim they no longer register people for TOEFL exam as well.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by kayzee2374(m): 11:05pm On Nov 29, 2019
legit should be around 50k
insight001:
Good evening guys.
I would like to know the current price for TOEFL please.

I have been seeing different prices by different educational consults.
ByMafit claim they no longer register people for TOEFL exam as well.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by insight001: 5:21pm On Nov 30, 2019
kayzee2374:
legit should be around 50k

Thank you.

Could you please or anyone on the TL recommend where i can register TOEFL within the range of 40-45k?
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Emeritusseun(m): 8:47pm On Nov 30, 2019
insight001:


Thank you.

Could you please or anyone on the TL recommend where i can register TOEFL within the range of 40-45k?

@ponpon
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by kayzee2374(m): 1:06am On Dec 01, 2019
The real man to contact
Emeritusseun:


@ponpon
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Nobody: 11:27am On Dec 01, 2019
Good day everyone,

I’m applying to 5 schools;

Bowling Greene state university
Georgia state university
Kansas state university
Cleveland state university
George Washington University

(Here is my profile
GPA- 3.28/4
GRE- 318
Degree of interest- M.A Political science )

The last 3 schools request for financial statement of account as part of the application process. Neither of my sponsors I believe have up to 30 million plus lol. So I’m thinking if there’s a way to get a genuine statement of account legitimately?.. it’s very important to not that, I applied with the intention of winning a scholarship (tuition waiver and assistantship) hence, not sure why statement of account that will cover full tuition Is required..

To the gurus that must have passed through similar stage, kindly help with your inputs please. I’m self funding this application but my sponsor(s) is Willing to help but his financial statement is slightly over 15m which is not enough sadly.

Kindly help please. Deadline for application is fast approaching..

Thanks

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by demo4show(m): 11:50am On Dec 01, 2019
Please suggest schools that give full funding for PhD in Chemical Engineering

Wes Evaluation: 3.89/4.0
Year of grad: 2019
GRE Score: Till Feb 2020
TOEFL Score: Till Feb 2020

Publication: 2 conference papers

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Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Juwon21: 3:11pm On Dec 01, 2019
House Good afternoon, please I want to know the cost for GRE exam. I plan to do the exam first week of February or last week of January. I will appreciate our response and where to register for the exam.
Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Pato5(m): 11:02pm On Dec 01, 2019
How are you guys paying N55K for GRE?
I planned paying on their site (ETS) and it's $220 there

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