GRE score increases through studying

Graduate School
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<p>How much did your GRE scores increase by studying? </p>

<p>That is, how much did your score increase by between the time you took a diagnostic test and the time you took the real test? Or, if you took the GRE more than once, how much did studying help improve your scores?</p>

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<p>my quant went from 540 (1993) to 730 (2006), I didnt study verbal the second tome, the score was the same. So just on math, 190 points.</p>

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<p>Year Verbal Quant. AWA Total
2004 390 710 4.0 1100</p>

<h2>2005 550 800 4.0 1350</h2>

<pre><code> +160 +90 +250

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<p>1) Second time around I made 4000+ flash cards from the words in Barrons
2) Practiced as many verbal problems as possible
3) I actually looked at the practice Quant this time.</p>

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<p>2003: 600V, 750M, 690 psych
2005: 750V, 750M, 750 psych</p>

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<p>1: 460V, 800M, 5.0A
2: 710V, 800M, 5.0A</p>

<p>I'm not sure how much the increase in verbal score was a function of studying versus the 101 degree fever I had the first time I took it, hopefully grad schools will be sympathetic and don't think its just a cop out excuse. I studied fairly intensly the 2nd time I took it for the verbal for about 2 weeks.</p>

<p>The tests were taken 1 month apart.</p>

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<p>Note: the GRE will be changing in 2007 in a way similar to the way the SAT has, eliminating analogies and using more critical reading.</p>

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<p>For the same reasons (to help women)?</p>

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<p>does anyone know a good place to get GRE flashcards for the vocab section? Thanks</p>

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<p>I have an electronic version of flash cards in the form of a powerpoint.</p>

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<p>"For the same reasons (to help women)?"</p>

<p>I beg your pardon?</p>

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<p>sweetdreams2k1, how did you get an electronic version of flash cards in the form of a powerpoint?</p>

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<p>Free flashcard software</p>

<p>You have to make the flashcards yourself, but that is best for your retention</p>

<p><a href="http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_168_19717.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_16_168_19717.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>cnet's takes on GRE software</p>

<p><a href="http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=GRE%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=GRE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This one is free (from cnet)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.download.com/Guru-s-GRE-Wordlist/3000-2279_4-10354036.html?tag=lst-0-1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.download.com/Guru-s-GRE-Wordlist/3000-2279_4-10354036.html?tag=lst-0-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>BTW
None of these will automatically download or anything like that. I got them form two nice web sites which offer a really fair amount of product reviews.</p>

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<p>How similar were your GRE scores to your SAT scores?</p>

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<p>sat: 700V, 700M. gre scores are above.</p>