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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 6:44am On Nov 24, 2017

Just got my AWA 4 grin

Complete profile
Q 163
V 159
A 4

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 3:18pm On Nov 23, 2017

Allylic:
Hello nairalanders..I need someone to help proof read my sop...thank you

I can help and in return you do mine

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 9:58am On Nov 23, 2017

Thanks I will check it out

Quoran:
Oregon state University. I have spoken with a Nigerian Professor there and he said they usually fund majority of their Engineering PhD applicants. I have seen your profile here and I think you should get in based on what he told me on a general note. Cheers.

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 9:28am On Nov 23, 2017

Please can anyone suggest good schools for ECE (B rated schools with funding) with January deadline? I am trying to spread my risk. I have currently started applying to 3 A tier schools with december 15 deadline. PS I started applying yesterday and already my LOR have been sent.

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 5:51am On Nov 23, 2017

femi312:
Any kind of envelope will do but it has to be addressed to your school and the seal point of the envelope must be stamped, without the stamp; that is not official.

Thanks

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 4:52am On Nov 23, 2017

femi312:
Yes you can if your school can give you but the envelope must be intact, addressed to your intending school and not tampered with.

should the envelope have school logo or normal envelope will be okay. Cos It wasn't put in a school envelope

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 9:19pm On Nov 22, 2017

Good day all. Please I have a question. Can I mail official transcript by myself or my school must do it. Please gurus help out

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 4:13pm On Nov 22, 2017

AYODEJI94:
Please, I wish to ask, can one write GRE with driver license or national ID as the means of identification? Thank you

No. You can't even use expired international passport or soft copy

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 9:07pm On Nov 18, 2017

Ifecrown:
Thanks a lot, i can see you also have Ready4GRE. was it helpful as well. cos I've been using it and i find it tasking.

they were all helpful

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 8:02pm On Nov 18, 2017

Ifecrown:
What is the name of the Helpful App you used for the AWA.
Thanks.

Here is a screenshot. GRE AWA

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Travel › Re: General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 12 by Yildiz: 8:38am On Nov 17, 2017

Hello gurus. I finally wrote GRE with Walspring discount and got Q-163, V-159. Waiting for AWA. Am applying for PhD EE with concentration in signal and image processing. Thanks alot Walspring. Please school suggestion

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 2:08pm On Nov 16, 2017*

Scholastica16:
Give me your email.

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 1:30pm On Nov 16, 2017

Scholastica16:
There was a school in California you were considering - Riverside or Irvine, why did you not send your scores to them?

Personally, her telling you to apply is because the filter will not eliminate you at 163- Q nor will the V aspect be a red flag. In this light, I believe every one who gets 161 and above in the Q will not be eliminated.

Remember that the GRE is just one aspect? After this GRE phase, the next thing will probably be GPA. GPA for both undergrad and grad school. You have both on lock too.

The other aspects of your app like SOP, LORs, Publications will now be deciding factors and in a closecall, that is when they may use someone's higher GPA or GRE score to select them over you.

The synopsis of all I am saying is, you stand a chance.

thanks. Actually I didnt send my score to the California school. I felt it's a bit low for their average. Well I really don't know about UIUC, but what would be your advice? Again can you suggest any other school with good funding prospect?

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 9:47am On Nov 16, 2017

Now please gurus in the house help me analyze this issue, I previously contacted grad coordinator at UIUC and she said most of their admits are in the 90th percentile of quantitative. Today I send her a message that I scored 163, do I stand a chance and she said yes. Then she added that they normally receive about 2000 applications per year and admit 150-250. Do you think I should still apply?

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 9:44am On Nov 16, 2017

On the test day I got to the venue around 9:30 and the exam started at about 10am. The analytical writing questions were fair and I have personal experiences I can relate with, I hope I achieve a 4 or 4.5 there. I then got QVQVQ. I heart skipped a beat when I saw Q as my first section. Anyway I finished the whole 20 question, revisited then and still got some minutes left. Likely that was my first Q. The verbal sections were relatively easy. But the second Q was tough. I couldn't actually figure out how to answer like 5 questions there. The third Q was also not soo difficult. At the end I got Q-163. V-159. I sent my scores to KSU, gatech, UIC, and UPenn.
Finally I want to thank everyone here for your encouragement and support. The books you all shared and the experiences. I owe my success to this thread and the numerous valuable contributors. Thanks alot

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 9:36am On Nov 16, 2017

Okay. My experience goes like this. I started serious study 2 months ago after writing TOEFL and securing most of the books for GRE. I followed a different reading strategy. I didn't start by measuring my performance maybe because I already have a first hand experience of the exams. I read through Nova maths bible, then studied the whole 6 Manhattan books. I practiced all the questions in the Manhattan 5lb book. All that took me like one month. I decided to take the powerprep test and scored 163-Q 148-V. Then I moved on to the verbal, I used basically Princeton and Magoosh videos coupled with some android app all for the verbal. Meanwhile I practiced the analytical writing several times. Also got an app that has lots of AWA topics. Last Saturday I took the second powerprep test and performed really bad. I got 159-Q and 153-V. Well I said to myself this is not a true representation of my preparedness. I ignored the whole GRE stuff until 2 days ago on my way to Abuja I practiced whatever came to my mind.

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 2:45pm On Nov 15, 2017

Just finished writing my GRE. My scores are
Verbal 159
Quantitative 163.
Details later

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 5:10pm On Nov 12, 2017

TooMuchSauce:
Wish you all the very best mahn, you sure have put in work, go get that 335+. Godspeed!

Thanks. By God's grace

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Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 6:25am On Nov 12, 2017

denniece1:
Pls, is national ID card accepted as a means of identification on test day?

No. Only international passport

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 4:56am On Nov 12, 2017

Scholastica16:
Ponlear, Yildiz, November crew, how is it going?

I will be writing on Wednesday in Abuja

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 1:47pm On Nov 04, 2017

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

Agriculture › Re: My Cowpea Farm In Kano by Yildiz(op): 3:33pm On Nov 03, 2017

Krak:
how much for the insecticides and how did you apply them?

How do you know when Cowpea is ready for harvesting?

Magic force is 2500 per litre. I used 16 L sprayer with half milk tin per sprayer load

Cowpea is ready for harvesting when the pods are dried. I will upload a pic

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Agriculture › Re: My Cowpea Farm In Kano by Yildiz(op): 10:21am On Nov 03, 2017

Another sample

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Agriculture › Re: My Cowpea Farm In Kano by Yildiz(op): 10:20am On Nov 03, 2017

Yildiz:
I will upload alot of pictures today hopefully and please if you have any question feel free to ask

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Agriculture › Re: My Cowpea Farm In Kano by Yildiz(op): 8:25am On Nov 03, 2017

I will upload alot of pictures today hopefully and please if you have any question feel free to ask

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Agriculture › Re: My Cowpea Farm In Kano by Yildiz(op): 8:24am On Nov 03, 2017

Thanks all for the constant interest you have in my cowpea. Am not a good writer so please bear with me. I will do everything in my power to explain how it all went and where we are now.
It's approximately 15 weeks since I planted and am yet to harvest. The late variety of cowpea normally takes that much time but hopely I will be harvesting in 2 to 3 weeks time.
The journey so far has been good really but definitely stressful. I will start with the challenges, the most important one is insects, throughout my investigation i was made to understand that i need insecticides 2 or 3 times only but currently i have sprayed insecticides 6 times. The pests have been really annoying. I used basic two types of insecticides and one fungicide; Lara Force, Magic Force and Imi Force.

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Agriculture › Re: My Cowpea Farm In Kano by Yildiz(op): 9:54am On Nov 02, 2017

Seun:
Please update.

Wow am honored. I will do that today Sir

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 6:55pm On Oct 30, 2017

TheGrandChemist:
Hello bro. Do you have the offline Powerprep test? I got an error message after getting past the issue and argument task on the online Powerprep. I really do not know what the problem is. I have mailed them though, but I am yet to get a response.
If you have the offline Powerprep test don't hesitate to share with me. Thanks.
This post also goes out to all those who may be of help.

Thanks

I don't have the offline version. Similar thing happened to me with the online version but it worked the following day. Probably they are having technical challenges

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 5:29pm On Oct 30, 2017

MasterforceII:
Hi. Are you applying to Georgia Tech?

I doubt

Education › Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by Yildiz: 2:20pm On Oct 30, 2017

Georgia Tech minimum AWA is 3.5

Scholastica16:
Order of importance;
Speaking
Listening
Reading
Writing.

Congrats. The writing is last because TOEFL requirements for top writing scores are kind of facile. The speaking and listening are what they want to be sure you can do because it is important for TAs. The reading is okay, but your VR of the GRE is more important to them.

Ask the grad coord for minimum AWA. Michigan State was 3.0. Some other programs are 3.5 and others 4.0.

Travel › Re: Naija to Yankee Thoughts And Experiences by Yildiz: 5:49am On Oct 18, 2017

MackyNaija:
Only 3 but it is tight!

Yes I know it's very tight. Just wondering whether you took more than that.

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Travel › Re: Naija to Yankee Thoughts And Experiences by Yildiz: 1:58pm On Oct 17, 2017

How many courses are you taking? I thought it's unwise to take more than 3 courses in your first semester

MackyNaija:
The american educational system is very intense...
In the past 5 days, I -

Thursday was the reiteration that we should go read 10 chapters for the midterm exam.

Did a 6 hour round-trip on Friday to unwind, I cannot go madt reading books. Lost so much time though.

Turned in an assignment on Sunday, had to rush through Friday's assignment due on Monday

Turned in an assignment on Monday, told to prepare for midterm exam. This one should be easier.

Getting set to take a midterm exam today, Tuesday. Did I cover all 10 chapters?? When I reach hall, I go know..

An assignment is due on Thursday (will I be able to meet the deadline?), also we have the Fall Carnival then or have I forgotten the Carnival date?

Overall, no time to drink beer or chase woman...
If I had a job, how I for take deh manage this kinda workload??

I deh go - need to complete my 'cheat sheet' (legal expo). Oshe!

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