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Preparing for the GRE...

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Bucknut24;1811194; said:
for anyone who has taken the GRE, does anybody have any advice on what book is the best to get to prepare for it? thanks!
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Get the GRE prep software. Best thing you can do. Do you have to take a subject test too, or just the general?

It's not a bad test, but with the CAT software that they are using now, be very focused on the first questions that you get. The first 10 questions basically determine your score. It's fine tuning after that.

Good luck!
 
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[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Barrons-GRE-Sharon-Weiner-Green/dp/0764142003/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289701130&sr=1-2"]Amazon.com: Barron's GRE (9780764142000): Sharon Weiner Green, Ira K. Wolf Ph.D.: Books[/ame]

thinkin bout getting this book...

anyone use this one?
 
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Software wasn't an option when I took it. Get the official test books, which are actual old tests. Take one every weekend for two or three months leading up to the test and do it under real, timed test conditions.

You can't really study for the GRE; that's what you were supposed to be doing the last three years. You can, however, prep for the test and become comfortable with it.
 
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BuckeyeMac;1811197; said:
Not sure if you know this, but getting laid prior to something like that enhances your brain activity because of the hormones that are released. Go get 'em tiger. :lol: That's all I got.
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I knew a hot girl named Lisa who helped me prepare for the test. We studied for about 15 minutes and then somehow became distracted. I took the test twice and did better the first time around.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1811232; said:
Software wasn't an option when I took it. Get the official test books, which are actual old tests. Take one every weekend for two or three months leading up to the test and do it under real, timed test conditions.

You can't really study for the GRE; that's what you were supposed to be doing the last three years. You can, however, prep for the test and become comfortable with it.
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This. And it is correct that basically the first 10 or so questions will make up a majority of your score for that section. It used to be scored in a fashion that once you answered X amount of questions correctly, you got questions that were more difficult and a higher point value.
 
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It's a lot like the SAT, in that it's hard to "study" for the basic sections (i.e. you either know some crazy-assed words or you don't). What the test prep did for me was help me practice test-taking strategy and assessing the types of questions they asked with mock tests. It did help quite a bit, I'm weaker in the verbal area as well.

Where the materials (books at the time for me) can really help you though is if you have to take a specific subject requirement. I had to take biology, for example, and I was able to brush up on areas I was less experienced in knowledge (a crash course in Ecology, for example) with the test materials.
 
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