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Magoosh is amazing. It's harder than what you'll encounter on the actual test so come test day your even more prepared then you thought you'd be. I highly recommend it.

I'm looking at getting in a bio psych, behavioral brain sciences or cognitive sciences Phd program. *My GRE score is 316 (156 quant, 160 verbal, 4.0 writing) BA psychology (from a small liberal arts school *GPA=3.48 *last two years GPA=3.61 *3 excellent letters of recommendation *1 year of experience working as a mental health technician. I work with veterans who've suffered from traumatic brain injuries. *1 year internship during undergrad working with homeless/displace youth *I've done undergraduate research on time perception in college students; moreover, I found that anxiety effects the ability to discriminate interval durations between 1 minute and 5 minutes accurately. (I'm currently working on publishing this). Any constructive or relevant comments are welcome.

40 is the new 28, pursue the a Phd, work your ass off and you'll be rewarded. so long as you shine in graduate school (conducting research, attending conferences, etc.) you can stand out from the crowd. i say go for it!

yeah, i found the manhattan gre math to be a bit tougher than the real thing, but i don't find this to be a bad thing. if you prepare with material thats harder than the real test, you'll almost be guaranteed to score better simply because your prep has been more stringent

the princeton series has never served me well. the practice problems they give are always too easy and littered with typos. stay away from this 1014 question book that only does well at showing you 1014 ways to burn your money. if you need to improve your math score, use Nova's Gre Math or any of the problems from the Official GMAT guide. If you need to improve your verbal score, use Barron's GRE verbal work book and LSAT official practice tests. Between these resources my new gre improved by a cumulative 20points.

@ randompsychology, love the enthusiasm, hope you achieve you pursuit of the psych. phd!

I know that percentiles have changed quit a bit over the years, where a 680 (in the quant) was in the 68th percentile and now a 720 (in the quant) is 68th percentile, but does score count for anything? I always felt like scores in the 700's were good, but 68th percentile just seems low to me...this whole GRE business is a mind f**k if you ask me.

@ blogstar, with your GRE scores in the 80th percentiles on each section you'll be just fine, I wouldn't think anymore of it.

looks a lil bogus to me

to all who posted on this, did any of you gain acceptance to dev/bio psych grad programs? and if so, what was your gre score?

definitely retake it. there are a lot of great gre prep sites now...Magoosh GRE is by far the best. My GRE scores were below 1000 and after studying on an off for 6 months while working a full time job I brought them up to a 1330 on the old scale (new scale verbal 160 83rd percentile, quantitative 156 68th percentile). From my understanding scores above the 60th are the standard just to be looked at. You can have stellar gpa's, but without a decent GRE theres no reason to apply. Retake it and study for at least 2 months with magoosh or barron's. Princeton and Kaplan are total crap and never helped me whatsoever. Another thing that helped me improve was studying with GMAT material for the math and LSAT material for the verbal, and cherry picking words I'd never heard of from academic or higher reading materials (the atlantic, new yorker, scientific american); in doing so I compiled an 1100 word list. On average I spent 5 days per week studying for 3 hours a day, and on 1 day i'd study for 5 hours (this day was spent doing practice tests from manhattan gre, they give you six that are nearly identical to the real deal). Hope any of this was useful for you.

I'm about to graduate with a B.A. in Psychology and I have 3.5 gpa. In addition I've done undergraduate research on time perception and state anxiety, along with completing an internship as a mental health counselor. I have yet to take the GRE, but I'm about to. Is it possible that I may be able to get into a school like UGA for a PhD...or a PhD program at all?