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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
I don't particularly need to LEARN anything, just need to do LOTS of practice and memorize words... T_T! | ||
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TOloseGT
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
I.E , "hey lets study for 2 hours" ... it works a lot better if I feel like I'm working with someone, or that someone is sitting by me working with me, I dunno if this is a good way to explain it but surely some people will understand. | ||
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Crais
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GrayArea
United States872 Posts
What is your sleep schedule like? As in how late do you stay up studying? I work best in evening/night so that's when I'm gonna be powering through. Anyway, lets do this man. | ||
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Blind
United States2529 Posts
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AcrossFiveJulys
United States3612 Posts
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SOB_Maj_Brian
United States522 Posts
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baller
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On November 11 2010 20:26 SOB_Maj_Brian wrote: Yea what happened to the LSAT =/ ?? no point in taking the test, where is the e-fame in that?? all the cool kids just blog about practicing and aiming 2 score high xeris when will u be taking the mcat? i hear johns hopkins is not bad medical school | ||
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dekuschrub
United States2069 Posts
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
GrayArea, I'm probably looking to put about 3 hours per day into it, and then 5 about a week before the test, then likely just do nothing the day before. I can work all throughout the day (except when I'm at work during the day?), but ya probably night times would be best. Sort of a secondary question, how important are your GRE essay scores? I felt really good about the essays yesterday, although my verbal/quant wasn't what I wanted... @AcrossFiveJulys - I suppose I don't really know how much GRE scores factor in, but my assumption is that if you get a certain score (different for each school) you have a solid chance. My other stuff I would think is pretty competitive (in terms of publications, GPA, work experience), so I'm hoping that a strong GRE score will put me over the top. And uh, my top 3 choices for grad school would be: Georgetown FS, SAIS, and McGill (Tufts would be a 4th). So I think if I can get a mid 1400 I'll be ok (although since I already took the GRE I don't know how schools deal with you taking it twice... hopefully looking at the higher score or something) | ||
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lutarez
United States65 Posts
On November 12 2010 00:20 dekuschrub wrote: wow 1500 is really high! If you got over 1400 the first time is it really worth it to take again? Yeah, 1500 is quite high -_- What field are you applying to? Even if you're applying to Harvard, you don't need a 1500 to be competitive. Once you reach a certain cutoff for score, other aspects of your application matter more. What is the cutoff? I'll arbitrarily define it as 1200 based on other people's stats I've read about in forums. Edit: Oh, didn't see that you're doing it poly sci. Anyway, whatever I wrote above still holds. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
On November 12 2010 00:20 dekuschrub wrote: wow 1500 is really high! If you got over 1400 the first time is it really worth it to take again? I got a 1320 T_T ... I feel like it's worth it to take it again to shoot high so at least I can have an average score of 1400. | ||
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HeavOnEarth
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Servius_Fulvius
United States947 Posts
On November 12 2010 02:29 Xeris wrote: I got a 1320 T_T ... I feel like it's worth it to take it again to shoot high so at least I can have an average score of 1400. 1320 is still pretty good. I got a 1240 and got into grad school (engineering) just fine. I think it's worth asking graduate advisors their opinion. For my program they primarily looked at the math score (makes sense since it's engineering), and if you had lower than a 650 your abilities came into question. No one really cared about verbal since it's an engineering program, but each program has particular expectations for each subject. Some schools may want you to be in the 95th percentile in everything, so I guess you don't know unless you ask. If you decide to keep studying I highly recommend the Princeton Review study book ONLY for the verbal section. I saw a lot of familiar words and probably would have managed much more than a 490 if I took longer than a week to study. Still, if you scored higher than a 600 on verbal, which is like the 90th percentile, then you're probably ok. Then again, "probably" isn't going to cut it, huh? | ||
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JodoYodo
Canada1772 Posts
The math is easier than the SAT and if someone were applying for a math/engineering/physics graduate degree and got less than 750 I would find that extremely questionable. A perfect score only puts you into the 93rd-ish percentile. For the essay section I think the most important part is to know the form of the questions. They're almost always the same and you can answer almost formulaicly. Read a practice book, sketch out an essay template, follow it on a practice essay. The reading section is probably the hardest only because the vocabulary gets pretty absurd when you get the first few correct. I took the practice list from the Princeton Review book and went over it a few times the day before. I'm pretty sure I got a bunch of questions wrong but it still put me in 650 verbal which was 96th percentile. On the other hand since it looks like you're a law student I guess verbal is far more important to you than math is. | ||
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hazelynut
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dekuschrub
United States2069 Posts
 of course it doesn't hurt, but sometimes its not worth it to retake because grad schools don't actually consider the GRE that much. Some schools don't even look it again as long as you are over their cutoff | ||
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mierin
United States4943 Posts
To the poster above, you're absolutely correct--an 800 netted me a 94th percentile. ) | ||
OneOther
United States10774 Posts
On November 11 2010 20:52 baller wrote: no point in taking the test, where is the e-fame in that?? all the cool kids just blog about practicing and aiming 2 score high xeris when will u be taking the mcat? i hear johns hopkins is not bad medical school hahahaha i love baller good luck xeris! | ||
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lixlix
United States482 Posts
The reason that an 800 math only gets you a 94% is because 1. you are competing against a much smaller and smarter group of test takers as compared to the SATs (everybody takes SATs, not everybody applies to grad school), 2. you are competing with a lot of international students who are very strong in math. | ||
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