sarakeet

That sounds like plenty of time to me... Like the above poster said, I don't see how you could possibly sustainably study for longer than that! If it's any comfort, I'm studying probably an average of 2 hours per weekday atm, and so far I haven't studied much on the weekend at all (gonna change that soon though). Just started studying two weeks ago. I'm also shooting for a top score and taking it on Sept. 3. So anyway. You're ahead of me! Mostly I'm just going to try to make the math quicker and more automatic, since I haven't done it in ages, and go through Barron's 800 words to find and memorize words I don't know that well.

I don't know about asking schools to wait for your scores, but I'd recommend taking it earlier too... You've seen this schedule, right? (http://www.ets.org/g...eral/scores/get) I'm going to spend a little over two months preparing, also while working full time. At the moment, I'm studying 4-5 days a week, an average of 2 hours a day on the days I study, although I need to ratchet it up a little soon... In addition to that, I study vocabulary from the Barron's GRE Vocabulary book or iPhone apps and read dense books that include lots of GRE words during my 1.5+ hours of commuting each day. Good luck! But seriously, it would make me way too nervous to wait until the last minute to take it!

Hey I can't really answer your question about foreign degrees but this might be helpful, especially if your main goal is to get certified to be able to teach in the States or an international school... I've been teaching in Asia for several years, and a couple of years in, I decided I wanted to make education my career, so I started working on an online certification program that would get me a teacher's license in Pennsylvania. A lot of brick-and-mortar universities have such programs, and some are even MATs. (I believe I'm always getting MAT from USC advertisements on my facebook page.) The one I'm doing is all online, so I can do it while I keep teaching here. Only the student teaching isn't online, and they'll even let you do that in international schools if you want. You can take extra courses to get a master's, and your certification courses count toward it. Anyway--might want to look into something like that if you aren't ready to go back to the States yet! (I finally am ) Good luck!

Hi! I'm also applying this fall--for international/comparative ed types of Master's degrees. Everybody sounds so organized! I'm getting ready to take the GRE in September and gathering lots of information about schools and professors and trying to figure out who to ask for LORs. About word lists--I'm going through Barron's 800 words and memorizing the ones I don't know. It's supposed to be less important, but there are still those sentence completions and all, and I don't want to be tripped up just from not knowing a word... Good luck!

Yeah I'm taking mine in September and just started prepping last week. I'm using Barron's "Essential Words for the GRE" to study up on vocabulary, and I've also started reviewing the math in The Princeton Review's guide to the new one. Couldn't find the Barron's one in this country, so my parents are sending it over. I plan to work through all the math and strategies in those and then do as many practice tests as I can find... That strategy worked when I took the LSAT a few years ago, I just wish there were as many practice tests available for the GRE! Anyway kind of nice to hear what other people are doing--good luck!