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shakaz:
Were you able to send scores for free after registration?

Yes, I was.

shakaz:
You asked a question and inserted an opinion Simultaneously. Obviously you don't need an answer.

When last did you have any Toefl dealings?

Today. So what's up?

angelajuni:
So finally I got time to put my transcript together. Had my interview on the 4th of october and it was successful.

Congratulations Angelajuni.
This transcript is one of those that shows how subjective visa interviews can be. The idea is to be able to defend the reason for going to whatever school, whether it's highly ranked or not.

Congratulations again!

shakaz:
Ets has changed this. Now for Toefl you have to input your four schools at the point of registration, else at a later time you would be charged $20 per school.

Since when? I don't think this is true.

Baggiopreshy:
he said the age correspond with the 160Fm and the passport. He said to prevent him from writing Waec again he decide to reduced the age so it will March we the passport age. Well as a good friend I told him to forget traveling this year so he can write weac again . Gurus wat do you think

I really don't know how these things work but can't he request for another waec result bearing his real details from the headquarters while maybe presenting an affidavit? Should cost some money.

With the way things are already, he's gotten his i20 which bears the fake age. His international passport bears the fake age too. If he gets the new waec result, it means it should start to contradict the fake details.

Falsifying documents is just another level of badness, so I'm not exactly sure what to say to you and your friend anymore.

Dalmakz:
It is for only the GRE that you can input the schools you want on the test day. As for TOEFL, it has to be a night before your exam otherwise you will be charged for it. I stand corrected though.

You're correct.

Baggiopreshy:
A friend of mine pleaded with me to ask the guru's in naidaland this question. He said he he gave an agent a fake weac result slip for a first degree program in usa , mean while he said all the detail are correct except the age were he had to bit it down to 21 on the waec slip, he said the score and the grades were not tempered with,he only did it to reduce his age. He said hope it will not affect him. Please instant response to know if he should call the agent now now

I guess I'll never understand why people try to beat down their age. Isn't it just so much stress, seeing that you have to now falsify every other documents you have?
Lies breed more lies, and it gets complicated as you go on. At some point, it just turns back and bites you so hard.

If you only just gave the agent the result for your application, I strongly advise to take it from him and do the needful: get the waec result that bears your real age.

Is that the same age on your international passport and your other documents or do they contrast?

eastafro:
hey guys whats up?
i just retook the gre yesterday and i actually improved .
q=161
v=152
0verall=313
wanted a 160+ for my quant and i got it. gotta say tho,i have never been the guy to stress over an exam. i have always been that nonchalant guy when it comes to tests but GRE man that gets to you BIG TIME. NEVER HAVE I EVER CAME ACROSS A MORE STRESSFUL TEST THAN GRE.
could be mainly cause i made it a big deal in my head or maybe it is. most people say it was the same for them too so thats that.

so yeah i got QVQVQ and i did not study vocabulary or anything this time around.
advice for all the math/engineering applicants- focus on the quant section since ,i believe, thats the admission committee would look for(most schools). i wish i scored 170 on than but it is what it is and i am happy regardless.
one thing i noticed your score does not reflect how many questions you got wrong ,some questions weigh more so getting them wrong means a lower score so practice hard questions to increase your chance of answering them correctly with the time you have.
as for study prep , nova(very helpful for the math section!!! specially for remainder questions which i got two of them yesterday) ,Manhattan all series and official ETS prep guide is enough.i think anything else would be an overkill.
and one last thing practice trumps reading/studying. evenif you are not familiar with the subject practice questions on that would go along way than to contemplate on the topic for days.
if yall have questions about gre ,i am here to share my two cents.
thanks.
on to the next headace.....SOP and THEM

Nice!
What was your score on the first one you wrote?

Baggiopreshy:
well i have a degree In accounting Education . My uncle told me told me to go for a pure accounting and he said it is left for me to make the VO see the reasons why am going for another degree in pure accounting and he said I should let the VO know that it my second degree as an undergraduate. He said my age26 would not be a barrier , that I should make my point clare. Point like: how I was forced to study account education in Nigeria institution , secondly how the present knowledge would help and guide me and makes me more prosperous as an accounting student. Please gurus what do you think.

Why's your uncle telling you what to do?
You, what do you want?

There is a whole load of information within your grasp today and you can even educate him on how things work now. Are you trying to say you can't tow a pure accounting line because of your accounting education degree?

If you are even really considering this, you would have to come up with better reasons why you are taking this path, and not something about being forced to study what you studied.

Nobody is saying you can't get a visa with this, but considering your age, it'd be wise if you just went through with your masters.

If you insist, then try. You might just be lucky.

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Gabbybanks:
Please oh I am still learning to Navigate this site. How do. I contact him. Is there a way to chat him. From here

Yes please.

-Type "Walspring" in the search box. His posts would pop up.
-Click on his name until you get to his profile.
-Send him a message.

If he sees your post about him before you go through this, he'll reply you on here.

Gabbybanks:
Hello guys. I am so confused ryt now. I have gotten my admission letter with my i20 now I wan to proceed to visa application and sevis. At this point I don't know my left from my right.

My i20 has a sevis ID number those that mean I don't need to fool the sevis form but just pay.

How do I even make payments as online payment is not possible for Nigeria. What is the fastest way for payment.
As for visa. How do I apply and book a date

Please I need a blueprint of what I am to do. Please any person that has concrete answer sud explain.

For the sevis fee, contact Walspring on this thread.

femi312:
Fallacy! I never knew there is a real and fake 1st class. Dont make yourself feel good by down playing the achievement of others. What you wrote up there is BS.

Total BS.

4peace4:
Bros some first class are not typically an achievement especially those from private institutions. The real first class are those who graduated from a typical rigorus public institutions. A 2:1 and 2:2 holder from a public institution is better than a first class from all these private institutions in naija.

I'm refuting this. You guys should stop saying and thinking this please.

What do you mean by a real first class? You can't undermine somebody's efforts and time and grades and money in school because they attended private unis, please.

Baggiopreshy:
Please am 26 years of age I do t know if am too old to us a Bsc program to apply for a student visa to usa. Please I need to know my chances of getting the visa and have got little traveling history, Ghana cameroon and south africa. Please I really need advice please please

Why not go for your masters?
Don't you have a Bachelors already?

The VOs can be objective as well as subjective. To one, you may have a good reason for your decision, to another, you just want to migrate and never return.

MyAmericandream:
Hi, I have already filled the SEVIS form myself, which states I should pay via moneygram or western union. Is their any chances for someone to pay for me via credit card in the states?

Contact Walspring on this thread.

Uzzy785:
Hi. I am going for a masters in health services administration at Tulane University SPHTM. This place is truly a gold mine and I learnt so much here. I got approved on 27th of sept in abj. Just picked up my passport today. I felt I should give back to the community. There is a lot of background story to this interview but for the sake of brevity i will just go straight to my interview. This was my 2nd attempt.


Lastly to everyone who posted here, thanks. I started from group 9 to this current group. Its long, I am sorry but I hope this helps someone who genuinely wants to better himself or herself positively. Like i said, i am not inclined to put up things here but if you have questions, feel free to reach out and i will try and answer your emails. Pls be patient with me as i am a doctor with really busy hrs. Never, ever give up. God bless you all.

Congratulations Uzzy.
This is an application fee free school, yes?
I have a friend who's currently doing his PhD there, and he's been telling me really nice things about Tulane.

Go prosper hun.

Leoney:
I was discouraged also, but read something online about someone who says it's the D day that matters most not your practice, though they matter a lot. But you're performance on the day off the exam that'll tell what your score would be.

Thank you very much for this. I appreciate it.

Leoney:
Hello house,
I think I should begin by apologising because this message might be long. I have been patiently waiting for my complete scores before I'll post anything here. I can not over emphasize the importance of this thread and I hope it lasts as long as the GRE exam continues and beyond. I am corper serving in ph, took the GRE exam last week saturday.
Scores are
Quantitative - 164 (86%)
Verbal - 156 (73%)
AWA - 3.5

My AWA is really disappointing cause I think I wrote well, and followed Manhattan's guide to the essay. I'm confused a lityle sha. Anyways I started preparing since june using only the materials I got here, in my preparation when I took the first Powerprep, my scores was
Q -149
V-151. Was disappointed cause I knew I'm better at Maths. Studied up to 5 hours daily, with some cheat days though. Then when I took my final powerprep got, V-150, Q-160, I just knew my verbal was in soup. On the exam day, everything was normal until my second verbal, when it started raining and I could barely ckncentrate because of the sound from the roof. I just guessed for most of the answers, cause I was really pissed off and the people there refused giving me and extra scratch paper. Anyways I thank God.
My profile is
Geology from Federal University
Undergrad GP 3.84/4 (WES conversion, 4.73/5)
One ublication pending
I submitted my scores to
University of Texas Arlington
UT of the Permian Basin
Colorado State Uni
University of Delaware.
I thank you all for your valuable informations, I dont know anybody's name except Scholarstica16, I'm singling him out because at a time, all I did was to isolate his posts and read everything cause I couldnt go through all >400 pages. I thank you brother for your contributions. Everyone else who have made this thread what it is. I would also welcome any advice on what next, already registered for TOEFL sha, would be taking it soon.

Ayeeeeeeeeeeeee! Congratulations! 320 is very huge.
I am encouraged by how your score got better even after not acing the powerprep tests.

I'm facing same now. I worked on my first test two days ago and the score wasn't so encouraging. I'm spurred to practice again.

I wish you success.

Yes we can Fall '19.

Icongold2006:
Good day my people and this is a great development among youths that are aspiring for betterment of their future.. I cherish this forum than anything..this is my first time to request for a help concerning my admision process... please I need a good answer to all my questions.. it goes thus....im about to to apply for a particular school in USA and I'm still confuse about about it.... my first question... should I go through agent concerning it? because I heard its faster and stress free... 2nd question.. if I also wish to complete it by myself, I have created my account on the school site and it's only left for me to complete my registration for my MBA.. I'm in need of TOEFL, how much is this TOEFL and where do u think I can apply for it here in Lagos including the process?.we all know that Nigeria is an anglophone country but my profile will be incomplete without TOEFL...... lastly.. I will be glad if a successor can drop his or her contact for a regular conversation(chatting and calling) so the person can put me through... thanks in anticipation.

First off, stay away from Agents. This is something you can do yourself. You just have to dedicate time to things like researching schools that match your profile, contacting grad coordinators, reading for the tests and all of that.

You can register with B. Y Mafit for 45k and with ponpon for 40k.

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shakaz:
D – Day. ( August 31, 2018)

• Usually, this is where people go on to elaborate at length. However, in my case it would surprise you to know I have little memory of what happened that day. I woke up feeling scared, worried and nervous. All kind of negative emotions one shouldn’t exhibit on test day. I struggled to even eat my breakfast. I figured that reading too many posts about GRE top scorers and having my eyes fixated on top school, plus friends and family high expectation led to the whole negative emotions I exuded.

Fast forward to the start of my test. VQVQV ( I prayed against this )

• AWA
The topics were straight forward and the argument presented had obvious flaws. And even though I am not fast at typing, I was able to come up with 5 paragraphs for each tasks ( my major mistake here was not saving up time to proof read).

Next up was Verbal.
My verbal experience was terrible. I couldn’t just get myself to stay focused. I was just glossing over the screen. I promised myself that on test day that I wouldn’t peep at the options, until I come up with an answer. I couldn’t adher to this. I totally forgot all my practice tests experiences. And I spent 50% of the time looking at the timer (worrying that time wasn’t enough). The comprehension were obviously incomprehensible. At some point I was totally lost in my thought. The TC and SE had not even a single unfamiliar Vocab, but comprehending the sentence was an issue here. At the end of the First verbal I knew I wouldnt do so well in the test.

Quantitative:
Now this section was funny in the sense that the questions were far easier than I had expected but I goofed up. For example, I spent 5 long minutes on question 1 ( if that wasn’t me abandoning 3 months of GRE home training and torrent of advice, I wonder what is) . The most annoying part is that, when my official scores came out, I discovered that even though I ended up answering that Q1 correctly, the victory was in every sense pyrrhic. Q1 difficulty level was 1 – easiest - , 5mins on an easy question. And the summary of what happened in question 1 is that I was being overly fussy. Reason being that, under the first 1mins I had gotten A as the answer (QC). But I wasn’t sure because I used plugging in method. So I spent another 2 mins trying to use algebra to confirm A. after 3mins of struggling I just had to mark and move on. At the end of the Section, I Still had 3 mins left. I still had to waste 2 out of the 3 mins on question 1 and my final answer was still A.

Now, you may be wondering why so much emphasis on Q1. The answer is not far fetch. That single question determined my mood, approach and pace in the whole section and inadvertently led to my score.

The other sections were just complete reiteration of the above. With my last verbal being worst off because of exhaustion. And by the last 10mins of test, my whole mind was on pressing the submit button and knowing my fate.

End of Test: I clicked submit.

Final score : 313 ( Q161 V152)

AWA 3.5 (whatever you do always spare time at the end to proof read and correct errors. you wouldn't want your grader to see " He it a boy". I'm sure that was my case, becuase I was certain about the contents of my essays. I expected 4.5+ self)

I was just there confused on what to do. The institution codes I had taken, hoping they would be moderate schools judging from my practice test scores, are now overly ambitious. So I just left the hall without sending scores to even a single school. Knowing fully well that I have to re-take the test.

It took me days to accept those scores ( or rather to reject those scores as a definition of my ability).

Well, there you have it. My GRE experience. I would have posted sooner, but I clearly wasn’t pleased with my scores initially. But right now I'm super grateful to God I survived, it could have been worse.

I hope prospective test takers learn a thing or two from my experience and I also hope my story end up having a happy ending. The aim is admission and funding and not to enhance your status amongst the Asians.

#Fall 2019 Yes We Can. Peace

Bless.
I hope you get all that you want. #Fall2019

Sheq:
i dont know what to do .let me just say the matter...

my mum is being charged 250k for toefl by an agent for my brothers undergraduate admission... he charged her 375k for sat and 179 for rewrite after failing... they have been on it aince octiber 2017..... the agent said he will resume january,no wes yet, sat is oct 6, no applications,no school....... i have told her about by mafit ... she told her freinds who told her someone they know said by mafit isnt for young people ( a 17year old boy). I am like isnt it just english exam and he will be tutored... the matter has tire me .... and its not like she has the money yet o....

I am so sorry about this, but it looks like there is enough money to throw away. I mean 804k is so much money for standardized tests fam. That money is enough to write the tests, pay application fees to more than 6 schools, and still cover other major expenses.

STAY AWAY FROM AGENTS ! ! !

If you register with B.Y Mafit, you get to pay 45k for the TOEFL. That 45k takes care of the materials he would need to read to ace the test. Looking from things, your brother need classes, and B.Y Mafit offers that for free.

What your mum's friend told her is a fat lie. When your brother goes there, he'd see his age mates in class. There are kids there his age attending classes and waiting to write their own tests.

Life shouldn't be this tough to be honest.

Again, STAY AWAY FROM AGENTS! ! !

Princelyod:
where are they situated.I am interested too

Ikeja in Lagos.

adedoja99:
Anyone in the AUC here?? Let's connect please

Ahah. I followed your admission story on this thread. You and Nahum777. How's school coming? How's America?

LearnAndObey:
Thanks, is there a place I could request for cab or uber?

Sure. Just download the uber app and follow the instructions.

If you have bargaining power, opt for the union taxis. It's just that they have static prices and it might be hard bearing down the cab fare. For example, they charge 3k from the airport to Sauka while you get to pay N670 on uber. You get my point, yes?

Success with your interview.

DanBornu:
Hello guys! I appreciate all you guys have been posting regarding GRE and TOEFL. I am still sceptical about the offer by B.Y Mafit (they charge just #50k for GRE registration plus other freebies including 6weeks tutorials). Please I want assurances from someone who has gone through them before now. Cos I don't want to be disappointed. Thanks guys

They are legit.

PstTobi:
Someone should please respond to me, have been so much disturbed. I CAN'T HELP MYSELF. THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU DO.

Help you with what?

Rytefish:
@spotlighte , I have seen your responses in the past, and I concluded that you must be a guru in this field, but don't make me think otherwise, just go and read his post again, probably you don't understand what he said....he said there are options to upload the transcript in the schools application portal, which is what I also did for all my four schools.

in as much as you have the official transcript with you, and they gave you access to upload it on their portal, you are good to go.

Noted.

zarconflux:
Thank you,but pls I am applying online and I was advised to apply to 4 or 5 schools and each of these schools has provisions for docs attachment (transcript,sop,cv,letters of recommendation etc) while am trying to apply...so how will the school send transcript when I haven't been admitted and each transcript sent is 30k..any more advise pls?

See, it's simple. If you're applying to schools that require official transcripts, it means all schools you went to post-secondary school must send your transcripts to them before your application can be considered. It's an "official transcripts or no admission for you" thing.

If it costs 30k for each transaction and you're applying to 8 schools that require official transcripts, then yea, be prepared to pay 240k. If you don't get admitted to the schools, you'll take your L in peace.

Well, why not look for schools that only require official transcript(s) when you've been admitted to the programme? Or better still have a mix? I don't know, I'm just saying.