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Has anyone here taken the GRE yet? I'm going to be taking it soon. Any helpful advice? Is there more geometry/trig or more alegra or is it basically even? How about the vocab and writing section? Does it use a lot of vocab? 

 

I bought the Barrons's GRE practice test book to study. Is there any other websites/books that I should look into? 

 

Any information would be helpful. Thanks!! 

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I took it twice,, here's a good link.. 

 

https://magoosh.com/?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=eyzsD2QGsYg&siteID=eyzsD2QGsYg-cZkGgPZOPI69rB02Tz4NBw

 

Also, Baron is good. If you have money, buy the flash card. It's easier using the card. The words are hell you don't understand what they are tbh. lol. 

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I took it twice,, here's a good link..

 

https://magoosh.com/?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=eyzsD2QGsYg&siteID=eyzsD2QGsYg-cZkGgPZOPI69rB02Tz4NBw

 

Also, Baron is good. If you have money, buy the flash card. It's easier using the card. The words are hell you don't understand what they are tbh. lol.

thanks for the link. Lol yea that vocab list is killer.

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I took it before, and I also recommend to use Mangoose

 

Quantitative

I think the questions include arithmetic, algebra, and geometry evenly. All the problems are simple math, so you can solve them easily as long as you are being calm and careful.

 

Verbal

the vocabs are hell, a lot of alien words that I never heard before lol. GRE verbal test made me appreciate IELTS more. The only advice I can give is memorize as many as vocab possible.

 

Writing

I think beside grammar, how well you give your argument and analyzes the issues are also the main points. You should read what are the current issues and try to analyzes it and give your opinion. This practice will make you think faster and sharper how to make a good argument so you won't waste your time to think what you should write.

 

that's all, may the odds be ever in your favor

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I took it before, and I also recommend to use Mangoose

 

Quantitative

I think the questions include arithmetic, algebra, and geometry evenly. All the problems are simple math, so you can solve them easily as long as you are being calm and careful.

 

Verbal

the vocabs are hell, a lot of alien words that I never heard before lol. GRE verbal test made me appreciate IELTS more. The only advice I can give is memorize as many as vocab possible.

 

Writing

I think beside grammar, how well you give your argument and analyzes the issues are also the main points. You should read what are the current issues and try to analyzes it and give your opinion. This practice will make you think faster and sharper how to make a good argument so you won't waste your time to think what you should write.

 

that's all, may the odds be ever in your favor

 

Thanks for breaking it down for me and the helpful advice. I really appreciate it!

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I took it in 2015, but I did extremely average, and average is not good enough to apply to grad school, so I'm planning on taking it again maybe later this year. I absolutely hate how the GRE is all computer-based now. I don't mind the vocab and essay part being computer-based, but the math part drives me nuts. If you're not good at mental math and you have to solve the problems out by hand like me (as well as have to use the on-screen calculator that's frustrating as hell), that's a lot of time wasted because with the amount of questions, you only have a minute to solve each question in order to get through all of them in the time given.

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