So I took the GRE today

[dakini]

Hi Neelshiv,

No problem! I am always happy to help when I can.

To answer your question, I'm currently finishing up my Masters of Liberal Arts w/ a concentration in Foreign Literature at Harvard =) How about yourself? Where and what are you doing/studying currently? Where in the US are you looking to apply for in the near future?

Re quant questions ... I think the hardest questions I encountered were the Kaplan questions I got from doing their course. I felt that the ETS 10th ed. math questions were quite easy but the ones I got on the actual test were much harder. Which books are you working w/ right now? According to my knowledge, Ms Prachi has some recent questions in her thread and also in her download section there are many different texts that you can try.

Anyway, I am really not the best person to talk to about quant since my score was a total fluke! I was so bad at math in high school and I am truly amazed that I got over 700 for it. Perhaps it was my state of mind in the test - I mean, I was thinking well, this quant doesn't really matter for me so I'll just take it easy and take whatever comes. Maybe that's why I didn't commit too many "silly mistakes" as is my habit.

Hope the above helps. Take care and good luck studying!
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[neelshiv]

hi Dakini,

Well, about myself......I study in final year, Engineering in India. I badly need a perfect score in quant.

I attempted mock tests from 800score.com and scored decently. But I somehow felt the quant part was too easy. Can you please comment on the mock tests of 800score.com?

Hope you are doing pretty well

Regards.

[dakini]

Hi Neelshiv,

I've never done the mocks from 800score.com because I found their interface too hard to read. However, I think doing more mocks will help you so I encourage you to try as much as you can in the time that you have.

Cheers!
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[neelshiv]

Hi Dakini & all,

thanks for your help. I'm trying to give my best effort for GRE.

I received toefl IBT score today, it's 114 / 120. Is it a good score or a mediocre one? See, they don't publish the percentiles, so I'm asking.

Best wishes.

[dakini]

Hi Neelshiv,

No idea about the toefl at all. Sorry!
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[devendar]

[dakini]

devendar, it has been 3 months since I took the GRE so I can't remember. I suggest that you look at the yahoo group that I have mentioned here for what you need. Cheers.
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[neeshu]

[seonmi]

What is the yahoo group posted by dynamite? I've tried to search but can only find gre-verbal.tk which is not working. I really appreciate it if someone could tell me about Dynamite's yahoo group. Thanks a lot.

[bkallen]

Hi Dakini

You have so generously give your time to help those preparing for GRE and you are appreciated....thank you. Actually, I should capatilize that...Thank You!

I do have a question though. I searched back through the theads and found dynamite's post concerning the monthly word list and such, but I cannot click the links to the left of the page for the yahoo group. Its not working for some reason. Do you know of any reason or am I doing something wrong. Your scores just amaze me to no end. That is FANTASTIC, for lack of a better more fitting adjective. YOU ROCK....how's that?

[seonmi]

bkallen, are you talking about this:
http://gre-verbal.blogspot.com/
I'm not Dakini but thought I may be able to answer your question. Good luck.

[bkallen]

Seonmi,

Yes. That is the one. I was having problems accessing it for some reason, but I finally got it to work. I created a yahoo account, signed up, and am now waiting approval to join the group. Thanks so much for your response.