Stupid GREs!

[theyellowhobbit]

Ugh. I took a practice test and got most of the math right, but messed up a ton of the verbal, especially the analogy section. The GREs are nefarious. What does a set of abstruse words have to do with my ability to interpret archaeological data? Do I really need a gradiloquent vocabulary? One solecism may be all it takes to ruin my GRE score.

I'm feeling indolent right now, which is why I choose to compose this LJ entry rather than widen my vocabulary. Perhaps this is a fatuity. But how much more can I accomplish in less than 48 hours?

Maybe this entry makes you think I am a pedant. Or that I sound supercilious. (Or maybe I sound urbane.) But really I'm just trying to intersperse as many GRE words as possible, and palliate the otherwise stressful study regime I've taken on.

(And don't take this entry too seriously. I'm really just using this as an exercise rather than reporting how I actually feel.)

Comments

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

I think I did pretty well on the "definitions" part of the GRE.

Some good it did me-- I did not save any documentation of my scores, and can't remember what I got. And I didn't study beforehand. If I wanted to apply to graduate school now, I wonder whether it would be possible for me to find out my scores, or whether I would need to take the test again.

[nesheekah.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll tutor you in exchange for a kippah or something... I kicked butt on the verbal portion of my GRE.

[nesheekah.livejournal.com]

GRE scores stand for five years, no matter how many times you "use" them.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

(a) But how would I find out what they are?
(b) Are you sure it's five years? It used to be ten.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

I'll totally take you up on that offer if you're free either tonight or tomorrow, since the GREs are one Wednesday morning for me.

[nesheekah.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely positive, since I tutor for the GREs. And to get your test scores... well, I'm not sure how long they are kept on file, but there is an Additional Score Report Form on the website at www.gre.com, plus phone and FAX numbers.

[nesheekah.livejournal.com]

Sadly I am not, unless you want to ask questions via AIM.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

I could do that. Though I think the biggest problem for me is memorizing these new words. That and I'm really bad at analogies, even when I do know what the words mean...

[nesheekah.livejournal.com]

I am sure you know how to make them into a sentence and then fill in the blank with each suggested word, but that is what works for me.

[lopaanre.livejournal.com]

I've started thinking about the GRE's, just a few questions:

1) Are there subject tests or just "the GRE"
2) How was the math part?

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

There are both subject tests and "The GRE." Look it up online. None of the subject tests are in archaeology or anthropology, so I don't have to worry about it, but you might need to take one.

From the practice tests I've been taking the math is pretty darn easy. Pretty much the same as the SATs. No trig, no calc. A lot of geometry and algebra (I, maybe a bit of II).