Sunday, April 26, 2009

I would watch this movie.

Also, does anyone know a good way to get a really high GRE score without studying? I don't think my old SAT I/II tricks are gonna work, and I don't want to break my streak of never studying for standardized tests.
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3 comments:

Nikhil said...

I think you can do very well with minimal studying:

1)Brush up on latin/greek word roots
2)Take a couple practice GREs

And that's it, really.

Math and writing will be very easy for you. The verbal section is significantly more difficult than SAT verbal, so expect to work a little bit on vocab (though you probably won't need to do that much)

4/26/2009 3:13 PM
Unknown said...

I think the most important thing is to familiarize yourself with the test. Know, for example, that the bloody thing is on the computer, and have thought about how you'll need to adapt your old standby test-taking strategies accordingly. Find out what the writing prompts are like. (I vaguely remember you have to produce one argument and one analysis, but I'm not sure.)

That's pretty much all I did. And a fellow test-taker and I drilled each other on some vocab words the night before we took the exam. I learned the word "macerate" (and remember it to this day!). The word that gave me the most trouble on the test itself, though, was "nice." People throw it around loosely, but it does actually have a precise meaning.

4/27/2009 5:44 PM
Anonymous said...

Depending on what kind of grad school you are going for, it doesn't really matter what you get as long as your score is over 1200. Just remember that the verbal section is a lot harder. If you can read Stephenson without looking up a single word, you're fine.

What kind of program are you applying to PiFry? (Or just put that in the next email)

-A

4/28/2009 8:59 PM

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