The Man Who Is Thursday Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 (edited) Figured I'd say thank you to those of you who urged me to take the test again. I took it again today and I raised my score from 580V/640Q to 660V/700Q I'll never understand how I got that high on the math (a one-armed, blind chimpanzee is better than me at math), but hey! Whatever works! Edited October 14, 2010 by The Man Who Is Thursday Strangefox, Deletethis2020, DrFaustus666 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newms Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolpsych_hopeful Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Good for you! Congrats on raising your score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnlikelyGrad Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Awesome! There's something psychological about going up from 5XX to 6XX or 6XX to 7XX--even if it isn't that many points, it looks so much better. Your scores now look good. DrFaustus666 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyjin Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Congrats! Do you mind if I ask how you studied for the retake? (I'm retaking in a couple weeks.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 good job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Who Is Thursday Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 Congrats! Do you mind if I ask how you studied for the retake? (I'm retaking in a couple weeks.) Oddly enough, I didn't really study much for the second time through (mostly because I just didn't have much time available for it). I studied a lot for the first one, and I think I might have crammed too much and my score suffered. What I did do for the second, however, was focus more on the Verbal. I did exercises from Kaplan's online GRE course, and I reviewed a long list of vocabulary that I had accumulated over the past several months. If you're looking for a book that might help with brushing up on both categories (especially the math), I'd suggest GRE for Dummies. I felt like an idiot buying the thing, but that was a really helpful book. So if you don't mind buying something with "For Dummies" in the title, then go for it. Otherwise, I think the best advice is what people here told me: don't worry too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylogician Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Figured I'd say thank you to those of you who urged me to take the test again. I took it again today and I raised my score from 580V/640Q to 660V/700Q I'll never understand how I got that high on the math (a one-armed, blind chimpanzee is better than me at math), but hey! Whatever works! Awesome, those are great scores! Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argonaute Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Great job. I am envious of those scores. Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangefox Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Congratulations!!!!!!!! That is just awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adaptations Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrFaustus666 Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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