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Firstly, get rid of your cats..they can be a distraction..
Khans academy has some good stuff for the GRE quan ative section..given your financial situation, this would likely be beneficial to you..
I'm going to apply early for the Physical Therapy program at UNC Spring semester (changed my mind on law) and I am required to take a ton of exams in order to have a chance of getting in.
One of them are the GRE. I see a bunch of practice exams online, they all seem to be outdated or redundant. One of my friends that took the exam said that the practice exams were inaccurate and out of nowhere.
What can I expect on this? Calculus/statistics and writing are the two main portions from what I've gathered. Any help is appreciated.
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Firstly, get rid of your cats..they can be a distraction..
Khans academy has some good stuff for the GRE quan ative section..given your financial situation, this would likely be beneficial to you..
Ask the resident physical therapy guru, Horse.
You can expect your cats to be neglected, and extremely lonely while you're occupied with school. You may want to consider an in house cat sitter as you do not want to remove them from their safe, loving, enviroment. You have to think about the cat's happiness too, you self centered son of a .
The GRE isn't all that bad, tbh. If you did well on the SAT, you should be fine. It's fairly similar, albeit a bit more difficult.
When you register for the GRE, you'll get access to a couple practice tests via the Powerprep software that comes with it on the ETS site. I took those two and they were pretty similar to the actual test, IMO.
Isn't the GRE a computer exam now? And your score is based on how difficult of questions you get, which is based on how you do on the first few questions?
did your girlfriend's sister dump more cats on you?
I never took the SATI transferred from a Community College to NCSU so I wasn't required to take it.
Yes, it is a computer exam.
It's changed a little now, though. There are 2-3 (the third section is experimental... not scored, but you don't know which it is when you're taking it) sections and how you do on the first section determines the difficulty of the questions you get on the next section.
In the past, the questions were more dynamic in that each question you got right or wrong would determine how difficult the next individual question was, but they changed that a few years ago, so now you can skip questions and come back to them (as long as they are within the same section), etc.
Well, if you got into NC State, you must be decently smart. I would think you'll do alright. What kind of scores do you need? I scored 161 on both the quan ative and verbal sections (87th percentile for verbal and 81st percentile for quan ative), but I think I only needed to be in the 60th or 70th percentiles for the program I was applying to. I took the exam in December, BTW.I never took the SAT
There's also an essay (two, actually), but as long as you can write okay, that shouldn't be too bad. I got a 5.0 on that (93rd percentile). Of course, a lot of the engineers at State don't know how to write very well.
The essay is jointly graded by a computer and a human grader. Following the five-paragraph standard essay format seems to be recommended and that is what I did.
GRE's are not too bad, buy one of the GRE prep exam books. The vocab is super difficult, the writing is easy, and the math is solid tbh. Just start training as much as possible.
There are questions now on the GRE that have multiple answers.
dont do it, too much debt
lol i just took it twice with no GRE prep. first time was my "practice."
as thunderpup said, khan academy is one of the most useful online resources for school... use it
i dont think its calculus heavy in the math side
- Take College Algebra. I believe that's the highest level of math on the test. If you take this class, schedule your GRE soon there afterwards while the knowledge is fresh on your mind and before you have a "data dump"
- Find out if they still have PowerPrep CDs. If they do, you're in there. These CDs are old GRE tests. Taking tests on this CD will condition your mind to how the test will be. When you finally take the GRE, you'll be used to the testing style and be more comfortable.
- Take a prep course if you can. College professors who are purported experts in their fields give classes that target the test content.
Good luck son.
"Physical theraphy" grad school
Horse, can you hook this guy with a job in one of your asian parlors?
For the quan ative section, I would already start learning Range Kutta derivations (if you can learn Matlab for this, that will be HUGE, it's big on the GRE), transforming matrices into RREF form by hand is a must, remember to review your Laplace Transform derivations, and last but not least, every exam will require you to know how to perform line integrals and solve first order ODE's using the Wronskian method. Just review these and you'll be fine No Lyfe
Good luck!
don't forget the Bernoulli equation either. That always seems to sneak up on people
it was mostly college precal. i didn't even really study for it and i was well within the 75 percentile, but i did take college calculus...
the essay is the most frustrating part of it.
one of my questions was something along the lines of "the ability of a leader is demonstrated by the wealth of the populace. affirm or deny this statement." and then i had 30 minutes to answer it what the .
the other question was basically "defend why liberal arts degrees matter."
Defend why Liberal Arts degrees matter--the football players need a degree wink wink.
Find a school that doesn't require it. That was my answer to Grad School.
Fight on, Ashbeeigh. This is the end-all solution or--a program who gives you an different exam. I never had any issues with the GRE but I know that some people drop the ball when it comes to the grad school testing.
Always cracks me up they call high school Algebra by the name College Algebra. And then when you take a real university level algebra course with groups, rings, modules, vector spaces, and the like everyone looks at you like a re when you say your algebra class is difficult. But that's when I'd pull my copy of Lang out my backpack and ask them to tutor me.
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Gradua.../dp/038795385X
It actually shocked me that a Top 10 program did not require a GRE. UTSA's program required a GRE. UT-Austin required a GRE. USC, nope. Not to mention, like you said, I'm a horrible test taker. The SAT vs. ACT struggle was real for me. ETS just has it out for me.
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