doctor-to-be

Yes. You can skip sections getting "no score".

Extremely hard - and not a true reflection of one's capabilities and talents in my opinion.

You could take only the essays portion and skip the other sections in order to not run the risk of scoring lower. Your credentials and work experience are excellent. I believe your Q and V scores are fine.

Hi everyone. I haven't posted in a while because I hit the GRE preparation and succeeded - I didn't give up and it paid off. It took me 4 tries (keep in mind I've been out of school for approximately 20 years). The only things left are: waiting for Master's transcript to arrive and waiting for GRE score to be reported. School still has openings for class starting in fall/2016, thus they're accepting applications now. I need help and support on 2 worries: 1)I scored well on quant and verbal of the second to last GRE, but didn't do well on the essay that day. So in the last GRE that I took, I only took the essays section, which resulted in an excellent score. In the application, there's only 1 space for the date of the GRE. So I e-mailed the admissions department informing them about this situation so that they understand the timing of everything. Thoughts? 2)Expecting to submit everything by this coming Wed., am I too late? What are the chances of openings (or just 1 for me ) still existing? Would they really reject a candidate solely due to there being no more opening? If I submit my application and there's no more room, how would that get handled?

Thank you. The staff didn't explain any of these rules during the security check. And, they didn't offer to provide me with any ear plugs. I will create an addendum to my complaint. This helps.

Wow. very inspiring.

oh my god - those scores!! 1000s, perhaps 10s of 1000s would do anything for these #s.

Your Quantitative score is great. The verbal and essays perhaps could be a bit better in my opinion. 2 weeks is a very brief time to prepare. If you don't have much work experience outside of academics, then I would retake.

Since the test, I've been too upset to think of that. Not being allowed to put one foot on the chair should be documented in their listing of rules, along with no ripping of scratch paper.

Today - I walked into the center feeling good, confident, and prepared. As I was working on my General test, I noticed that the person behind me was making the following noise out of her mouth every several minutes: mmm. This was not done softly, as the tone of this was easily audible to many. THEN, to make matters worse, another person was SPEAKING in a normal tone of voice for what seemed like 1-2 minutes!!! Anxious as it was, I was feeling so distracted!!! I used the set of ear coverings a bit, but these were too uncomfortably heavy and painful to me ears. In the 10 minutes break, I complained about these 2 disruptive noise makers. This staff member minimized the seriousness of this by saying (paraphrasing here) "some people need to read out loud to help them focus." WHAT???!!!! His best response was saying that he'll report them. He didn't kick them out! Later on, I had the bottom of one of my feet on the chair (without shoes) for comfort - staff came over to me and told me to put my foot down NOT on break. REALLY? Is that how people cheat these days?

too TIME consuming that is - another silly mistake.

Thank you Rich! Your support means a lot. Taking general GRE again this Saturday. What's helped to improve my practice set scores in Kaplan, along with a better score on my last MST has been learning to QUICKLY decide if the problem before me is "easy" (quoted because none of this is easy) enough to get correct AND not too time consuming. If this problem falls into this category - do it. Secondly doing the problems that I believe I can get correct that are too consuming. The rest - that's what goofy math, repeated numbers, etc. are for.

If I score at least 300 next week I will apply this year, considering that their requirement is APPROXIMATELY 305. If rejected on first try, I'll raise my score and reapply just 1 more time next year (looking at just 1 school). Are other applicants over 40 years old struggling with GREs just as much as me - having left school approximately a couple of decades ago?

I'm content with resolving this dilemma - If I score at least 300 next week I will apply this year, considering that their requirement is APPROXIMATELY 305. If rejected, I'll raise my score and reapply just 1 more time next year.

Doctor-to-be here. Hi Rich. I've been listening to/watching a ton of your videos (if this is the Rich I'm thinking of) on Empower lately. These are very good, but I was so discouraged AGAIN when I scored a combined 294 on a MST this past weekend. Real scores: 149 quant. 148 verbal a couple weeks ago. Prior to this MSTs ranged from 288 to 302. I've honestly been working as hard as possible in this training. I graduated with my Master's in 1997, undergraduate in 1995. GRE work has been a living hell.