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Hi,

Ive applied to grad school at UofM and need a good GRE score… Unfortunately I am too poor to afford those $3000 test plans on www.kaplan.com so I would really appreciate if someone can give me some good links with some uptodate tutorials (as I heard the GRE format changed). I would be really shukarguzaar to you guys… Thankus

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After some preparation chech websires by searching net for different sites offering tests like

http://www.800score.com/gre-guide.html

Buy few tests they usually cost $ 10-30 from different companies as u progress.. some companies even offer single tests for $ 3-5..

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There are books on GRE that you can get from Barnes and Nobles for about $5. and they are for last year. At least our local store had them discounted from $40. That should be enough you are willing to put in some effort.

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There are books on GRE that you can get from Barnes and Nobles for about $5. and they are for last year. At least our local store had them discounted from $40. That should be enough you are willing to put in some effort.
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degas and hmcq, thank you very much for your help.

HMCQ, the books from B&N, are they following the new pattern of the GRE? I heard it changed recently?

Thanks

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I dont know about format stuff cause I havent taken those tests for a really long time (when they were still paper and pencil!). The book in B&N is called GRE CAT SUccess by Peterson's and Thomson and its for 5.98. it is the 2003 version. If you can not get it locally and are will to pay shipping I will send you a copy.

I dont think the format affacts your score as much as how much practice and preparation you do. For the format you should check out the ets web site.

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*Originally posted by hmcq: *
I dont know about format stuff cause I havent taken those tests for a really long time (when they were still paper and pencil!). The book in B&N is called GRE CAT SUccess by Peterson's and Thomson and its for 5.98. it is the 2003 version. If you can not get it locally and are will to pay shipping I will send you a copy.

I dont think the format affacts your score as much as how much practice and preparation you do. For the format you should check out the ets web site.
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Thanks hmcq and thanks for the generous offer, but I do have a B&N store very close to my place, so I will go there first, but I really appreciate your help.

When you took it, did you take it for grad school admission solely, and what was your english profiency like at that time, I mean were you good at vocab and all? Did you do the word lists? Also, did you have experience taking the SATs? I took my SAT 1 about 3 years ago and had a 620 in verbal, 780 in math, so Im not really worried about math section.

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English proficency was fine I guess. Had never taken SATs before so I cant compare. and yes it was for grad school. the logic and maths were fairly straight forward and for the english some schools dont even look at it since it is not really a test of anything. I dont remember what the score was but I think got something close to 600 in english but adding all three scores together, it was the top there is really not a lot of studying you can do for the english other than doing the word lists and hoping something comes out of it.

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English proficency was fine I guess. Had never taken SATs before so I cant compare. and yes it was for grad school. the logic and maths were fairly straight forward and for the english some schools dont even look at it since it is not really a test of anything. I dont remember what the score was but I think got something close to 600 in english but adding all three scores together, it was the top there is really not a lot of studying you can do for the english other than doing the word lists and hoping something comes out of it.
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One more question hmcq bhai...

There are three sections, analytical, verbal and quantitative. What is the indiviual score of one section? I remember you said you got 600 something in verbal, was that out of 800, just like the SAT1s? Thanks

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yeah each is out of 800. the percentile matters more then the score.
600 on verbal is around 75-80% i think while 600 in quant would be like 50%

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Thank you so much hmcq bhai for your help so far, but beware, I will have more questions for you in future, as I go along studying for the test. :)