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[ru]

The GRE is a little over a week away, and I really don't think I'm going to do well on it. I've been doing practice tests, and for every section, I hover somewhere in the 60-70% range every single time. I don't really seem to be getting any better, either. Maybe it's just that a lot of the questions are things I haven't seen in, well, years, and I'm trying to remember how to do them. But if that were the case, you'd think I'd be gradually improving, right?

But I'm not. I'm flailing with the vocabulary, seeing as I don't use words like "proclivity" and "unctuous" on a regular basis (and the "use the words in everyday life" study method doesn't work for me, because I completely forget to use them in favor of words that make sense), and more often than not, it feels like I take a horribly convoluted and inefficient method for figuring out math problems (and subsequently get them wrong), which is just gonna kill me, both point and time-wise.

Throw in a mess of non-GRE things which are stressing me out and...yeah. I know, whining doesn't help and all, but right now, other than doing what I'm doing, I don't know what else to do. I feel like I'm going to be going to a train wreck.

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[erstwhiletexan.livejournal.com]

The GRE is a real pain in the ass, Ru, and I feel your pain. The nice thing about it is that most people don't give it much weight any more as a reliable indicator of someone's worthiness -- plus, they generally don't count anything other than your primary section (for me, they disregarded all my scores excepts for English) so you really just have to shine in your area.

I'm sure that however it turns out you'll be able to get into a great graduate program. <3 <3 <3