My GRE At-Home Experience | Thoughts, Tips, & What I Would Change
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- On Sept. 26, 2020 I took the GRE from home. I scored 157V, 146Q, 5.0 AWA. The goal of this video is not to give you actual tips or tools to use on the exam, it's merely to help you avoid the mistakes I made while preparing and steer you in the right direction. Here are the things I would change about how I prepared for the exam, along with what the process of taking it from home (rather than a test center) was like. As I mentioned in the video, gregmat.com seems to be the best investment you can make to prepare for the exam in my opinion. Definitely give it a shot.
All opinions expressed are my own.
About Me
-Name: Hailey Dollar (yes, that's my real last name)
-Age: 24
-CC: West Valley College, A.A. in Liberal Arts
-Undergrad: UCLA, B.A. in Applied Linguistics
Career goal: Speech Language Pathologist
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The RUclips Channel I referred to is Greg Mat
Love the transparency and just how honest you are about your thoughts!
thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing! I watched all the ads :)
Thank you very much!
Thank u so much for sharing...and you've got an amazing awa score
Thank you!!
You promote Greg Mat, you get my like!
He's the best!
Loveeee how the hoops look on you!!!
thank you, Karla :)
I’m taking mine late November and I’m scared lmao but definitely gonna look into the Greg guy you mentioned
Thanks for sharing your experience
I wish you the best of luck!
Princeton review is good! I’m taking the gre saturday ahhhh!
how did it go?
I hope everything went well for you!
How was your GRE ?
Hello, thanks for the videos. Are Headsets allowed during the GRE test at home? I mean in a situation where your computer does not have an inbuilt microphone.
Whose youtube channel were you refering to? Could you tag him in the comments ?
The channel is called Greg Mat.
Please share the link of that person which you have mentioned in your video.
It's Greg Mat, he's the first one that pops up when you look for it.
One thing that I don't get is that how do people who have English as second or third language score well. Let me take my example. When I was applying for PhD, I prepared for the verbal part for like 15 to 20 days and two hours everyday. But to my surprise, my score was 162 in verbal. I have an engineering background from a university in India. In engineering, the content is of much more importance than the language, so my professors also never cared about getting creative with the language. Besides, I also rarely spoke in English with my friends and classmates at my university or even during schooling. I used to talk with professors in English and give presentations for course projects, whenever necessary. I never read any fictional and non-fictional books. Even my friends who never had proficiency in English were getting much higher GRE scores than me. It is very confusing for me to understand what goes right with people from non-American and non-English backgrounds. One explanation that comes to my mind is that I and my friends always watched American movies instead of Bollywood and regional language movies. Do you think movies have a potential to bring that change in a person's performance? You have studied in a multicultural atmosphere at UCLA, your perspective can provide me better insights.
Hi Shivam, I highly doubt that watching American movies would improve your score on the exam. Even as a native speaker, the verbal section was difficult for me, and American movies definitely don't use the level of language that you see on the exam. When it comes to standardized exams it's more about knowing how to take the exam than the content itself, though that is undoubtedly a factor. I would venture that your high-scoring friends just studied a lot. I'm sure you did as well considering that 162 is just 8 points shy of a perfect score.
If you scored the GRE verbal 162 in 15-20 days with no strong background in reading skills (50% of the questions test reading skills) then you are the next Albert Einstein
@@TrickySolver Non-native speakers are usually trained well in using formal words if they were educated in a few subjects using English as a medium. On the other hand, we have no clue of the slang, phrases and other informal ways of speech used in the US or UK. Therefore we are more likely to do well in exams but have difficulties communicating verbally with native speakers.
And it’s interesting you did worse on the real exam, my friend told me she got the opposite better on all the practice tests!
everyone performs differently!
you're a good narrator.
thanks for watching!
@@georgeboahene3254 I don't do this but check out Greg Mat on RUclips. That's how I prepared for the GRE
Who are you recommending? Mat who?
Greg Mat, he should be the first one that comes up when search for it on RUclips
Who did you say his name was?
Greg Mat
whats the pattern of exam?
Hi, you can find this information on ETS.org