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Adilegian
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 Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:15 pm |
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I recommend two things for taking the GRE:
(1) Focus upon the portion that your chosen discipline will care about more. I got into a high-quality Creative Writing English MA program, and my math score was terrible. When I studied, though, I'd focused mainly on the argumentative composition part and the verbal part, because that's where the school was looking for strength.
(2) Taking the GRE is often less about your knowledge of the contents, and it's more often about how well you can take the GRE.
Think of it like a videogame. Videogames reward you on how well you know and manipulate their rules rather than how well you know the materials they represent, right? (You won't play RE4 any better even if you know how to disassemble a handgun in pitch dark.) The GRE, in my experience, works the same way. Practice tests give you a better feel for how to manipulate the rules of the GRE test in your favor.
| evnvnv wrote: |
| wishful thinking and blind ambition never killed anyone (ha, ha, ha). |
O RLY!?
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Adilegian
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| Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:49 pm |
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| evnvnv wrote: |
| i wish the process was a little more transparent! |
One more suggestion: calling the head of the department where you want to apply adds a ton of Windex to the application process. (Transparency, har.)
Seriously, I've never met a department chair who's been put off by an applicant's taking the initiative to learn what's more important to the department itself. Call him/her up and say something like, "Hi, my name is Rick Ricky, and I'm currently applying to Southeast Asian cultures departments for M. A. work. I'm really interested in your program, and I'd like to know what parts of the application process are more important to your admissions criteria."
(Or something like that.)
That's what I did, and it saved me a lot of trouble trying to scramble to cover my ass for an extra handful of Foreign Language credits that I didn't have. They were listed on the admissions criteria, but they were ultimately waived because they were less important than other parts of the application. (Recommendations, writing samples, etc.) It freed my time and energy to focus upon those application elements that WERE more important (especially the writing samples), rather than waste time trying to secure something that, ultimately, wasn't a determining factor in my admission.
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