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thanks a lot. I am doing just that. Praying a lot though!

So my Dday comes this friday.Taking the Gre for the first time ....what should I be doing now ?

Thanks. its very competitive; I need an excellent GRE score to stand a chance. So @domination any idea on Mech or Pet schools that are not as competitive, but still have great programs?

HI. I am international student( UG Mechanical engineering) with no experience in the petroleum industry. I would be taking the GRE next Friday. Could you please advise me on petr. eng schools that a favorable to International stds? I am thinking of applying to Colorado, texas A&M and UT AUSTIN.

Thanks a lot. I have both books.

OP gibbom could you kindly be more expansive on the quantitative section. Did the ETS quant practice question book mirror actual test questions? thanks

Thanks a lot. I am taking the test in 3 weeks

Did you study the recently published ets book -verbal and quantitative practice questions it may be helpful. you can get the Kindle version on amazon

How was your quant. did it mirror what was on the power prep software. Heard it's getting tougher. Thanks. please reply.

The ETS published two books( practice question books), I have taken a cursory look at the quant book:one thing I have noticed is that some of the questions are a little tasking and different than questions on Manhattan and older Ets materials For folks that have taken the test recently, how different was the quant from the powerprep? or is the quant getting more complex? thanks

used the power prep software , how’s my essay? Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition. Education should be available to all who seek it, yet the extravagant price of school tuition hobbles many individuals from getting this necessary tool for self actualization. It is important for governments to give free education to students who come from indigent homes. Such a policy may be the only chance that such kids may have at getting to live better lives. A university education would enpower such students with the opportunity of getting adequate employment after their graduation, which would bolster their chances of providing for themselves and their families. Deprived of this colossal chance of a university education, many may continue to live in their penurious state. Definitely, it is in the power of governments to provide schemes and grants to assist such individuals by defraying their school costs and tuition. For instance, in Nigeria, the government uses petroleum revenues to offer free education to individuals from oil producing areas that have no funds to acquire an education. Together with giving inpecunious students a shot at success such students would be beneficial to the nation on the long run. Education engenders knowledge within a vast number of the population. An educated nation would be productive in all spheres of life: arts, science and business. Indigent students assisted today may develop ideas and inventions that may be beneficial to society in the future; such individuals would take up jobs likes lecturing and public administrating for government as a means of appreciating its altruism. This all leads to more productivity. The only Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, received a free university education at the premier University of Ibadan, he has brought panegyrics to his country through is edifying and incisive plays, fictions and short stories. Contrarians aver that government would be foolhardy to sanction such a policy: citing meager public funds. Yet, they fail to realise the government could pressurize benevolent private citizens or companies to create funds that could help benefit the lives of poor students. In summary, government are behooved to assist the poor to escape from the misery of poverty. With a high price in gettin a university education, politicians should offer a way out for them.

Just took a manhattan test, they dont grade essays so i am hoping someone who is a pundit in critiquing essays would help out. It is a timed essay argument task. The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University: A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors. Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument. The assertion by the faculty committee that Seatown University should sanction a free tuition for professors' college students is flawed and they have to give specific evidence that Seatown and Oceania Universities are similar, among other things. Firstly, do both schools have different similarities, apart from close proximity. While professors in Oceania may have more college aged kids, the situation may actually differ from Seatown;these professors may have children that are done with college. And the results of this study may be not be typical of Seatown and reccomendation won't lead to retention of academics in Seatown University. The committee has to show that the study sample is representative of Seatown University constituent. Furthermore, evidence that Seatown would be able to implement a free tuition for the group of students. The conditions at Oceania may favor giving free tuition: underwriting from private organizations and loans. Whereas, Seatown may not have suitable funds and budget to show such largess. Thus, this reccomendation may not be sanctioned by the President. The comittee should provide evidence that Seatown has the excess budget to run this programmes. Finally, the committee members make a great leap from giving free tuition to luring new professors. There are various incentives that academics seek before choosing where to lecture: research facilities, wages and geographical location of the college. Seatown University could give free tuition to their kids and pay low wages and lack adequate research facilities and thus such professors may not be wooed into taking residents at Seatown. The committee members should show among other things that Seatown has other facilities that would intesrest new academics. In summary,the committee members should provide the above named evidence to buttress their assertion. If these are not provided, the president would reject their reccomendation.

Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach. Education should be an all encompassing venture; its success should be felt in both the classrooms, and the society. Academics have an important role in making this the case; they should together with their lecturing spend some time outside their academic niche. Firstly, such actions make academics more effective and incisive in their classrooms. Academic is seen as idealistic, and students find it difficult to apply what they learn at colleges in the actual world. Thus, an educator having outside classroom experience is an added advantage; it would make lectures more pragmatic and incisive. Students would surely benefit from classes that discuss at length on practical application of ideas and concepts rather than utopian theories which do not dovetail with real world scenarios. For instance, an Engineering Professor with reallife experience from working on a Power plant would be more effective in teaching a class on power plant engineering than one without such experience. Together with improving their teaching skills, they also by coming out of their comfort zones have a positve impact on the society. Academics should have an edifying impact on society, it ideas and concepts should be able to improve the thinking and lives of humans. Educators are invovled in a cornucopia of research and experiments: science and social science. And it would be absurd for academicians to keep such knowledge to the walls of a University; by spending time in society these noble concepts can be used to bolster the various aspect of society. For example, a sociologist taking a break from teaching and then championing a cause for improve social welfare programs for Americans would help improve the cause of indigent citizens. Although contrarians to this assertion state that academics should eschew from spending time off teaching, citing points like: decline in academic research and decline of scholarship in schools as the result of such actions, they fail to see the added benefits that such actions would bring to academic scholarship; there is an exigent need for solution to real life problems, and it is from academics that posses knowledge on the pragmatic problems of society that solution to these conundrums would emerge. In summary, classroom activities would become more expansive and academics would have a relevant effect on society by spending time outside their classrooms. If for anything there is no harm spending time to have a look on how erudition can affect lives outside the classroom.

thanks a lot. will give it a try.

Three years ago, because of flooding at the Western Palean Wildlife Preserve, 100 lions and 100 western gazelles were moved to the East Palean Preserve, an area that is home to most of the same species that are found in the western preserve, though in larger numbers, and to the eastern gazelle, a close relative of the western gazelle. The only difference in climate is that the eastern preserve typically has slightly less rainfall. Unfortunately, after three years in the eastern preserve, the imported western gazelle population has been virtually eliminated. Since the slight reduction in rainfall cannot be the cause of the virtual elimination of western gazelle, their disappearance must have been caused by the larger number of predators in the eastern preserve. Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument. The author position that the Western gazelle population have been decimated may seem plausible, but there are basic questions that need to answered to bolster his argument. First, that rainfall is not the actual cause, also, evidence of the number of species in the Eastern Preserve and also evidence that these gazzelles don’t have similar survival characteristics as their close cousins. Firstly, it has to be evinced that low rainfall in their new habitats has not led to the precipitous decline of the Western gazzelle. Change in habitats affects many species and a reduction in rainfall may actually have been deleterious to their existence. The low rainfall could have affected the diversity of plant species available to the gazzelles and led to various form of manultrition and their sudden deaths. Plants and herbs that may be endemic in the Western Region may not be available here because of low downpour and thus led to this sharp decline. The author should give evidence that low rainfall does not affect the Western gazzelle diet and that plants available in the west are available in the Eastern preserve. Furthermore, evidence of the actual population of species in the Eastern Preserve would bolster this argument. The author does not cite the actual variety and population of species available in the Eastern province. Statistics of the actual number of canivorous species present in the Preserve would help buttress his claim; as a prodigious amount of lions, hyenas and lepars would explain why the large numbers of the Western gazelle have been eliminated. Also, there is need for evidence on the actual number of preys available to predators, as a large variety of animals of prey would undermine this author’s assertion that their actual decline is particularly due to predators. Finally, the author has to show that Western Gazelle are not similar to their Eastern Cousins, as there is no information of the fate of the latter, they may have survival characteristics that would make them more abundant in the East. The author has to show that the Eastern gazelle are better equipped to survive in the east. If this evidence is not given, the author’s claim of predatory as the cause of the decimation of Western gazzelle should be taken as spurious, since Eastern cousin would still be in large numbers and may have similar survival attributes as Western gazzelle. Studies that show that Easten gazzelle have certain qualities that are in lacking in their Western counterpart would surfeit. While their decline may be due to ravenous predatory, the author has to give the aboved named evidence for his point of view to cogent and plausible.

Yeah i definitely think so. Its preferable to have faith in your ETS practice score.

Please i want some one to check out this essay.

The following is a recommendation from the Board of Directors of Monarch Books. "We recommend that Monarch Books open a café in its store. Monarch, having been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer base because it is known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Clearly, opening the café would attract more customers. Space could be made for the café by discontinuing the children's book section, which will probably become less popular given that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Opening a café will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened its own café." Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation. Monarch books needs new customers and creating a café within their store seems to be their idea of achieving it. While this public relations move may be a success, the Board would need to explain if new customers would be attacted to a café and if expunging the kids section from the store is prudent, among other things. Firstly, would opening a café within the store goad more customers? The board makes a large leap in their argument; there may not be café or coffee culture within the location of the store and customers may not be interested patronising Monarch books. Even if there café loving residents in the stores vicinity, there is no certitude that more customers would be attracted to them, there may be other cafes in town where residents can also visit, and therefore such competition could hobble the plan of attracting more customers at Monarch Book store. The board has to show that there is a café loving population to get customers and that the level of competition from other book stores with cafe and café shops in town would not stymie this reccomendation. Furthermore, would discontinuing the children section be achievable? We are told that Monarch book store is known for its variety; removal children book section could be detrimental to store revenue as they may make much of their profits from this section and thus these reccomendation may not be feasible to implement. Even if there has been a decrease in the number of under 10, there may also be children between 10 and 15 that read children books, expunging the kids book section would not be auspicious to these children and they would sure not become new customers and even present customers may go elsewhere. The board has to give evidence (store’s balance sheets) that majority of their revenues does not come from their children book section, and that there is a low population of children within its location. Also, would parents want to visit a book store that does not provide services for their kids? There may be parents interested in bringing kids along to the book store, but would loath coming to Monarch even if they like cafes. This would surely stymie the prospect of new customers patronising them, as they may have choose stores that satisfy both them and their kids. In summary, while the board aims to attract more customers, the introduction of a new café may actually be insidious to their customer base,as they some may go to stores that offer their various needs.

Guys, I just wrote one of the my manhattan practice tests, and, in a way, it has being revealing. Am going to list out what I have noticed · Firstly, AWA, I was able to complete the two essays- it makes me now believe that under timed conditions i would be able to write. · Also, learning vocabulary is critical- that’s if the Manhattan test is close to actual test. I was able to recognise many of the vocabs use for TC and SE. · On the downside, I didn’t do well, got 152 on both sections. Sentence equivalent seems to be my strong point got 7/8. · But on the TC it was not a dearth in my vocab that was the problem, It was my inability to follow the sentence structure- this knock me out. · My RCs was awful, i was scared of reading long passages under timed conditions, which was my folly. · Then for the quantitative, I know I can do better on that, was able to solve more difficult questions. More practice is needed. My questions are on RCs and Sentence structures. Please how can I improve in those areas.

nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. Curriculums are designed by educators to guide students’ academic learning. Although flexibility of curriculums could be helpful to some particular students, there is a more pertinent need to make national curriculums similar for all students. A similar nation education guideline creates a general basis on which to judge the general progress of students nationally. Variance in curriculums from one district to another does not make this possible; students would not be able to write similar tests and their level of academic progress would not be adequately measured. On the long run, government has no litmus test apparatus to check if education is improving or dwinling within a country. For example, if kids have to learn under different curriculums, exams like the SATs, which are able to show how much students have learnt on a national scale, would be not needed. Furthermore, different curriculums would create problems for colleges, since prospective students would be coming from various backgrounds. Some students may be not have offered certain perequisite courses and this would make learning particular subject areas exacting for such kids. Such a situation makes the task of imbibing learning in students enormous and insuperable for educators. For instance, an Engineering College student that studied a curriculum which gives peripheral attention to calculus would find complex college problems too recondite to reconcile. Together with the difficulties to students and educators, government would end up putting more funds into establishment of different schools, training different teachers and establishing various education boards to make a variegated national curriculum effective. Government budgets are limited and meager; with different other sectors to fund, such profligacy may not propitious. But a national curriculum cuts-down on these exorbitant expenses. Proponents for diversity in education curriculum argue that students have varying needs and such variance would help tailor subject areas to their interest. While such views could be plausible, and some kids learn quite differently, allowing large disimilarities in learning within a country would deleterious to the education system.

Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. Recently another anthropologist, Dr. Karp, visited the group of islands that includes Tertia and used the interview-centered method to study child-rearing practices. In the interviews that Dr. Karp conducted with children living in this group of islands, the children spent much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. Dr. Karp decided that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture must be invalid. Some anthropologists recommend that to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices, future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method. Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation. Dr. Karp refuting of an original study carried out on the island of Tertia has made some scientists aver that to understand Tertian child rearing practices studies should make use of the interview centred method. While Field’s methodology may be spurious, the interview centred method has to answer the following questions: wether Tertia is similar to other surrounding islands, and if children talking more about their parents mean that they were not trained by other adults. Firstly, is Tertia similar in totality to the surrounding islands in culture, and norms? Karp used a sample different from the original study and this disimilarities may have led to the variance in the findings. May be in the surrounding Islands they have sacred traditions that leaves child rearing to parents only and these samples was conflated with a Tertian sample that does not object to communual child rearing practices. Definitely, the surrounding islands would have vitiated the results of the study. Dr. Karp has to provide evidence that these islands have similar cultures and norms to bolster claim of plausibility, before the reccomendation of his colleagues can be enacted. Furthermore, he has to show that children talking more of their parents means that they don’t learn morals from other adults. While kids may be more cogenial with their parents, they may also have learnt some particular mores from other parents. The author has to show that the kids were never away from their parents daily or did not visit friends who had parents. Also, Dr. Karp has to show that the questions he asked these kids where answered objectively, as these kids may not have an idea of what they gain when the socialize with other families. Finally, he has to disambiguate the phrase ‘much more time talking of their parents’ as it can evince that these kids still spent some trifling amount of time talking to other adults. This evidence would undermine Dr. Karp’s argument and the reccomendation. In summary, this reccomendation may not be accepted if Dr. Karp does not give cogent answers to issues just raised.

Some people believe that corporations have a responsibility to promote the well-being of the societies and environments in which they operate. Others believe that the only responsibility of corporations, provided they operate within the law, is to make as much money as possible. Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented. Corporation are established to carry out business that would create profit. But these activities are accomplished within a society, and thus may affect communities and individuals either positively or negatively. It behooves a corporation to see to the social wellbeing of the society in which it makes profit, but not to the extent that it runs at a loss. Businesses are funded by investors and shareholders and these individuals expect to get profit dividends from their investment. The paramount function of an establishment is to provide adequate services and gain revenue, when it fails to do this it runs at a loss. Therefore, corporations should not be tagged as amoral when they seem to be profit oriented. On the other hand, corporations are obliged to see to the well being of communites in which they operate because their acclaimed profits are made from rawmaterials, both human and natural, endemic in these regions. Business leaders are behooved to see that the constituents of such communities are provided with schools, clean water and good roads, since these places are at times rustic. Such actions would be a right step of such monolithic companies showing empathy to the indigenous people. For instance, oil giants like TOTAL and Mobil, help provide basic ammenities in various Nigerian Communities where carry out their operations. Furthermore, these social responsbility, if judiciously carried out, could be auspicious to the organisation. Showing largess to society, in the long run, can improve their stocks and buoy more people to buy shares which could improve business. When corporations are parsimonious to the society that patronises them, they create a poor public image that even high profits cannot efface, leading to animosity between corporations and the society in which they operate; such situations are not propitious for organisations that are interested in earning profits. In summary, corporations should create a balance between making large profits and showing magnanimity to the society. Being insouciance to the needs of these communities may be insidious to their profit making machine.

It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position. Social groups, by definition, are groups made up of members that share and espouse similar views, beliefs and morals. Every human, one way or the other is a member of such a group- since he has to relate and socialize with individuals on a daily basis. Individuals define themselves by identifying with social groups. Firstly, in all societies individuals create relationship with persons who have common goals, and it is in these relationships that people develop themselves: moral, political and religious beliefs. For instance, the American Civil Rights movement was pastiche of individuals, mostly black, who believe in equality of humans and were staunch to this ideology. Paragons like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther, Malcom X, and Jessie Jackson where able to define their goals in life by joining the civil right movements, and this was because they all had one purpose which was fighting for equity. Civil right groups may not be seen as exemplar social groups, but schools have a cornupia of them: gangs, cliques, and reading friends. Members of these groups espouse similar views, good or bad. Reading pals see academic success and knowledge as goals that are worth attaining and these students would work in tandem to improve their school grades in their subject areas; to the student who belong to this group his friends affect his psyche: he behaves according to rules or beliefs of this group- reading and completing school task assidously. Conversely a member of a school gang would see violence as a germane virtue, since violent activities- bullying and fighting- are the ideals espoused in such groups. Juxtaposing these behaviours we find that they were engendered by the kind of friends these kids made at school. Definitely social groups define how we behave and what we think of ourselves. Furthermore, the Feminist movement- a group that fights for liberation of women, and want women to be seen as economic equals with their male counterparts- is also an exemplar social group. Ladies who identify with this group, both official and unofficial, see themselves as ladies who can achieve positions seen as masculine: chief executives in corporations; presidents of countries; senators and legislators. Such groups have galvanized women ubiquitously: Christaine Largade of the IMF; President Rousleff of Brazil; Merkel of Germany to attain eminent positions. While contrarians may argue of individuality- human ability to make personal decision and choices- mordenity has transcended human relations to another level, an age where individuals can form social groups on social media undermines this claim. Nobody is an island; egregious and noble beliefs are bolstered by the company humans keep, and this has a bearing on human quirks and idionsyncrasies.

Nature's Way, a chain of stores selling health food and other health-related products, is opening its next franchise in the town of Plainsville. The store should prove to be very successful: Nature's Way franchises tend to be most profitable in areas where residents lead healthy lives, and clearly Plainsville is such an area. Plainsville merchants report that sales of running shoes and exercise clothing are at all-time highs. The local health club has more members than ever, and the weight training and aerobics classes are always full. Finally, Plainsville's schoolchildren represent a new generation of potential customers: these schoolchildren are required to participate in a fitness-for-life program, which emphasizes the benefits of regular exercise at an early age. Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted. **** not timed.please help me critique this essay. thanks The author avers that Nature’s Way, a health products retailer, would be successful or make profit in Plainsville since its residents have interest in living healthy lives. While individuals may be fastidious about their health and thus patronize such stores, this argument is bolstered by faulty assumptions and vague language. Firstly, the author assumes that high sales of sportwear and kits are a clear pointer that Nature’s Way would make profit in Plainsville. These high sales may not have profited the retailers; it could be that other stocks like exercise equipments that would have produced more profit received a dearth of patronage. Nature’s Way could be a retailer that invest more in heavy exercise equipments and surely would not make huge profit if there low sales in these stocks and high sales in sportwears. To bolster this argument he should give evidence that sport wears are the only health products sold in Plainsville, and that Nature’s Way majors in the sale of sportwears. Together with propping his argument with residents’ propensity to buy sportwears, he assumes that large turnout at aerobic classes and health clubs assures of Nature’s Way profiting. These large turnouts are not a certainty that they are all interested in keeping healthy or patronising health shops. Residents could see these gatherings as an opportunity to socialize and have fun: bored old folks could go to local health clubs to meet friends; youths go to aerobic classes to see their friends and such individuals may not need to get sportwears. If these are the attitudes of a vast number of residents, then Nature may not be successful in Plainsville. The author has to provide a survey that shows the number of individuals that actively participate in these projects. In arguing that there are large turnouts at health clubs and aerobic classes the author makes use of ambigous and vague phrases like ‘more members than ever’ and ‘always full.’ These terms can be construed in many ways. May be the number at the health club increased from 5 to 10, and just 10 out of 30 persons are sedulously invovled in aerobic exercise. Such information, if true, does not provide an answer to how Nature would be succesfull in Plainsville, as many of these residents may not patronise them. The author should give actual numbers. Finally, the author prognosticates of future customers to be made from kids, since they are being exposed to health related programs. Would these kids continue live healthy lives? Even if they do would they need to get health products from Nature? Kids may be enthusiastic of such health programs now, but some may become insouciane about health related issues: eating fatty foods; avoiding daily exercises. Also, some of these kids may even move out of Plainsville and thus this future customers may not be available to patronise Nature’s Way. Evidence that these kids would keep been healthy and patronise Nature in the future would bolster these claim. In summary, to make this argument iron clad the author has to disabuse his faulty assumptions.

I am an international student, so am not good at this. your essay tankers with the evidence that bolsters the claim. 200% increase in private grants, doubling I'm attendance, increase in ticket prices. nice essay