Duaa66

Thank you for your reply! I have a math tutor, only to give me piece of mind but I don't feel like he is helping. I have taken practice tests from kaplan(I have software from them). I only get about half right, which is really bad. I think the major issue is knowing what to study. I have 5 books and they have some similarities, but they are mostly very different, which is way I am overwhelmed. I thought memorizing 1000 would be good enough, but it seems like it isnt, and I didn't realize the reading passages would be as difficult as they are. I obviously am able to excell acedmically in grad school, as I already have a masters, but if I went by this test you would think I would fail out of grad school.

Hello everyone, I have been a long time lurker, and finally feel like I need to post something because I am extremely discouraged. I currently have a masters degree from a good university(Madison), but I didn't have to take the GRE for my program. I have decided that I want to pursue a masters/ph.d in a different field and now need to take the GRE. I started memorizing words at the start of the summer, and have about 1000 memorized. I struggle in math in general, so I bought a ton of books and have been studying them. Whilst I am improving in Math, I am still doing horrible when taking the practice exams. I also am doing really badly at the reading passage questions, and there are lots of words I still don't know. I am extremely overwhelmed and discouraged and don't know what to do. I have never taken a standardized teat, which makes this process even harder. I need to apply for programs at the end of December/start of January and I feel like I am not going to ever get in anywhere because I am not improving:( Any advice/help would be great! Thanks!