I took the GRE this afternoon. Did I study? No. Did I get lots of sleep last night? No. Did I do any preparation whatsoever? No, unless you count going up to San Francisco last night and crashing into bed around 3AM. So how was it?
The written part was really easy. I had so much time on my hands that I felt I could really revise and reorganize and come up with something good. The verbal part was frustratingly hard. I was upset that there were words I didn’t know. The math part was too long and I had to scramble to finish. I mean really hussle. It was bad. I was pretty frustrated with myself, and I think if I practiced a bit, I could do a lot better. I felt like I was wasting too much time on the simple arithmatic, and on reading the directions to figure out what i was supposed to do.
The nice part is that you get your score right away for two parts:
Verbal: 710
Quatitative: 730
Combined: 1440
Acceptable, especially since I think I did more than OK on the written part. I’ll have to wait a few weeks for that, but I am assuming I got around a 5, and hopefully a 6. I checked out the average scores for different programs that I am interested in, and these scores are above the averages. But I would have really liked to have broken 1500. Ah, well. Next time.
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As if I don’t have enough time for blogging as it is « Life in the hornline // October 5, 2006 at 12:00 pm |
[...] Last year’s tutoring experience was is a very mixed experience. Like most of my “do good” activities, I think that I end of up getting much more out of the experience than whoever I am helping. Thinking about algebra once a week really helped me on the GRE and it was good exposure to the educational system here in California. But I don’t know if I helped the girl I was tutoring very much. She was so behind that me helping her for one hour a week didn’t come close to catching her up. Sure, I could help her with that day’s assignment, but I couldn’t make up for all of the basic math skills that she was lacking. We would spend time working on basics like adding fractions when she was supposed to be solving quadratic equations. She needed to be in a pre-algebra class, but the school doesn’t offer anything lower than algebra in high school. And her taking it multiple years wasn’t going to help her. It can be frustrating how limited I am by the system, especially just as a volunteer. [...]
Lauren // October 5, 2006 at 12:01 pm |
Update: writing score: 5.5! Horray!
Simon // October 20, 2006 at 1:25 pm |
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J Zizzle // October 28, 2007 at 10:46 pm |
Nice 710 V without studying and all. I got 800 Q, 560 V, and 5/6. I did study for a few months.
J Zizzle // October 28, 2007 at 10:48 pm |
One more thing: I don’t think it’s a good idea to aim for cumulative scores because the percentile ranking of the Q and V sections is so different.