GRE.... How do you study?
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# TEP 1: Familiarize yourself with the overall format of the test. The GRE tests three main areas: verbal ability, mathematical proficiency and analytical ability. There will be two sections for each of these areas, plus an extra unscored section. The content of the unscored section will vary.\n# STEP 2: Take as many practice GREs as possible. The more practice you get, the more familiar you'll become with the test's format, and the more comfortable you'll be when you actually take it.\n# STEP 3: Review the directions for each section of the test before you take it. Skipping the directions will save time during the test.\n# STEP 4: Remember that you will have 30 minutes to complete each section of the exam. Each verbal section will have 38 questions, each math section will have 30 questions, each analytical section will have 25 questions and the unscored section will have 25 to 30 questions, depending on content.\n# STEP 5: Familiarize yourself with the question formats for each section. The verbal section has four types of questions: antonym, analogy, sentence completion and reading comprehension. The math section contains quantitative comparisons and basic problem-solving, and the analytical section features analytical reasoning and logical reasoning questions.\n# STEP 6: Increase your vocabulary. The verbal portion of the GRE is essentially a vocabulary test.\n# STEP 7: Review basic math such as geometry, algebra, proportions, fractions, percents, decimals, the order of operations and anything else you might have learned in high school math.\n# STEP 8: Try solving a few logic puzzles and games to prepare for the analytical portion of the exam.
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study a little each day for about 30 minutes.\nstudy in a quite place.\ndont start studying the night before a big test...
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It is hard. If you can afford to, I would recommend getting tutoring or taking GRE prep classes. Good luck.
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I make a plan. I find out how many days I have avaliable to study in and how many books/ pages have to be read, and then I make a plan, a realistic one, where you have to do more or less the same amount of reading every day - and then I try to keep the plan, that's the hard part ;-) \n\nOh, and when studying, I turn off the computer, the TV, the lot - and try to concentrate. Do take notes. Write questions for yourself. Find the answers later (or ask a friend or the teacher). If you have to learn something by heart, write cue words down, have them hanging around the house (one on the fridge, one in the bathroom - whereever). That way you can practice many times during the day. And it isn't as obnoxious as it might sound + it works...\n\nGood luck with the exams.
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Here's what I do:\n\nStart studying asap\nMake a calender for the last few weeks and be anal about planning\nPlan for study time, work/class, as well as some relaxing time (get lunch with friends, tan, draw...)\nDon't party the night before finals (maybe this is a "duh" but some people do)\nEat a good breakfast the morning of your final and get plenty of sleep BUT don't eat much more than you normally do or sleep too much (maybe it's just me but that totally throws me off)\nDon't worry too much about finals, know that you've studied and are competent enough to figure things out even if the answer isn't obvious right away\n\nGood luck :)
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just study, study, and study. write up some notecards to make into flash cards, and keep referring to it. \nps, why did you wait so long to study? last minute studying doesn't normally work. you need repetitiveness to make it count on tests.
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repetition is key. make notecards and carry them with you. study with other people and take turn asking questions.
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Take a note of what you studied in simple terms. When you see those few tips what all you read must come to your mind. Keep many such notes. Go through them when you are free. Even sitting in a park observing the dogs play with a ball you can review these niotes.\nPRACTISE MAKES PERFECT.\nAFTER FOUR FIVE TIMES YOU WILL REMEMBER THEM ALL AND FAST AND QUICK.
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Relax. Dont study the night before or the morning before. Just go over how to do the math a little. By now if you have not been practicing the verbal section there is not much you can do to improve it except going over vocabulary or something. The best thing to do is to stay calm and not let nerves get in the way of getting an amazing score.\n\nGood Luck!
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Start studying at the beginning of the semester and keep it up through the whole semester.\n\nDon't wait for the test to start studying.\n\nStudy every subject every day.\n\nDon't study what you know.  Skip the things you know and spend time studying what you have not learned yet.\n\nSearch the internet for "how to study" and you will find a lot of good resources.
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Preparation depends on what kind of graduate program you want to enter. I don't know of a single elite university that takes the general GRE seriously -- they only want to see you break 500 in each section.\n\nI took the GRE cold. I prepped for 3 days using a Princeton Review GRE book I bought at Barnes & Noble http://www.bn.com and scored 1980 on my first and only attempt.\n\nthe only thing I really needed to practice was using my computer to take the test. i was accustomed to paper exams, so CBE was different for me.\n\nIf your vocab is weak, then by all means get a friend to hlep you with a wordlist. http://www.m-w.com has a Word of the Day column. very good practice!\n\nAnd if you are taking a subject exam like bio, chem, physics, etc, then good luck. it's those tests that require studying because they're so comprehensive.
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Noo.. GRE is much easier... but if you constantly study you will do fine with both
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The best practice are those emulators that simulate the test. Books are good for general vocab review and math review, but they don't simulate the actual testing environment well.\n\nThe trick to the GRE is that your first few questions are critical. From there, your score is narrowed down with right answers getting you harder questions and wrong answers getting you easier questions, until a score is decided by the computer.
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I got the Princeton Review book, Cracking the GRE, which has an online tutorial CD with practice exams.  In general, I found:\n\n1)  The verbal questions were very similar to the exam, but reading passages were longer and more difficult.\n\n2)  The essays you have to write are very stylized - in other words, they ask you to write in a way that you'll pretty much only use for the GRE.  There are some tricks and I'd advise reading the essay section of the book very carefully\n\n3)  Forget the easy and medium math sections.  Only the "hard" math section of the book had the type of problems the test had.  Also, in the word problems, the book would have a picture of the figure (in problems where you're finding the diagonal, area, whatever), but the test usually gave a description only, and I had to figure it out on my own, which took A LOT more time.\n\n4)  The single most effective way to raise your verbal score is to study vocabulary.  The book I mentioned above has a GREAT list.  \n\nGood luck!
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If you are from Non English speaking country then you need to take a test for English:\n\nTOEFL: Generally  for US and Canada\nIELTS: for Australia, UK and Canada\n\nBesides Many Universities recommend for GRE Exam (especially US Universities).
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Been there, done that.\nWhen ever you read something, create a picture of it.\nwhen i study, i take breaks. Most of the time when i study, I walk and pace. The pictures in my head help me most.\nOne important thing, make sure you understand one thing at a time and when you are done with a page, dont go to the next page until you have absolutely memorized the whole page completely.\nSometimes, i re write everything again, helps me alot. Especially using different colors.
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I took the GRE last summer.  The most important thing is to focus your goal by looking at the average scores for the programs you are interested in.  This way you know if you need to focus on math or verbal.  Then you can use your prep time most efficiently.\n\nTo prepare for the verbal, I subscribed to the New Yorker magazine.  It was much easier to read the magazine for a few months than to cram some vocab cards.  how boring!\n\nI bought a prep book with 7 practice tests.  After each test, i graded each type of question - analogies, etc, to see where my weaknesses were.  Then I studied that type.\n\nIf you study hard, I'm sure you'll do well.  But i found that the recommendations were much more important in my app than my gre scores.\n\ngood luck!