In response to Shelby's intrigue (any one reading: you should check out her site, her pictures are incredible!) I am taking the GRE's on November 17. I took the practice math part and only missed two questions-due to reading the question wrong--however the language part is another story. I specifically chose my masters program so I wouldn't have to take the GRE's. But unfortunately that will not fly for a PhD program.
There are only two schools near me offering PhD programs in Education-and they are USC and UCLA both which are very competitive to get into -so although I have the GPA's to get in, I will need a very good GRE score. I been working in my Kaplan GRE verbal workbook and add 5 new vocab words to my knowledge bank about every 3 days. So I decided to just sign up for the test and go for it, then I'll at least know where I stand.
2 comments:
I am sure you will do great and any PhD program would be lucky to have you!
I think we have opposite problems-I would LOVE the language part-but as an example of the math, I asked Tom what 70 divided by 7 would be. Not a strong point.
I think you should post your language words OR use them in a blog entry. :)
Sounds like you've mastered the math part .. I wouldn't spend much more time on that. Focus on the vocabulary and writing...
I put words and defintions on flash cards and constantly flipped through them - got my family to constantly ask me/drill me on the words. Do you have a copy of the hit list words? I can send it to you. Also - the Reader's Digest always has great words in thieir little monthly books.
Good luck studying! :)
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