To get admission in one of the foreign university you have worked hard during your three years of graduation studies. However, do not let your struggle get wasted by not being able to deliver your best on the exam day. GRE is one such exam which is important to take admission in Post Graduate programmes in America and Canada. Here are some simple steps which will prove helpful for you to score high in your GRE.
1. The requisites of the GRE
First
and most important step is to secure a date to take the exam. Try to schedule a
date around six months from the start of your GRE preparation.
To make the payment for the exam fee you require a credit card. If you attempt
the exam only once it will cost you around Rs. 6000. Make sure that you get
your seat reserved on time and according to your availability, it happens many
times when students do not get a test date according to their wishes as the
slots get full. The GRE exams
are conducted five times a week in most of the major cities of the country. The
minimum time gap to be maintained between two attempts is a month. Most
universities take the higher score among your attempts, though some
universities do consider the average score. The purpose of the GRE is
to test a student basic verbal and quantitative aptitude, along with his/her
writing skills. The test requires a basic knowledge base of class 10th
Mathematics and basic fluency in written English.
2. Format of the GRE exam
You will appear for a two-and-a- half hour
long computerised test. The exam is divided into three different sections:
Quantitative, Verbal and Essay. In this GRE paper except
the essay section, all the questions are objective type, each question carry
five options as answer choice. The total marks for the GRE exam
are 600, and the essay section will be graded on a decimal grade of 6.
Quantitative and Verbal section both carried 800 marks. Every post graduate
discipline has its own section requirement of the score. If any student score a
score of 1,400 or above it is considered as good score. An essay of grade of 5
or above is regarded as good score.
The GRE test
is not an accurate and precise evaluation of your aptitude. This is because the
exam has a little tricky format, which generally hampers a student to score
well in the exam. It is always advised that one should be well informed and use
it to your advantage.
3. Make your GRE strategys
The GRE is
computer based exam. Always make sure that before moving to next question, the
previous question has to be attempted. An attempt would mean that you click any
of the available options from the choice and confirms the same before moving to
next question. Once a question is attempted, you can not revert to it. So be
sure about the question you attempt.
GRE exam
is adaptive in nature. The first question you attempt in the GRE exam
will be off average difficulty. Half the people attempting the GRE get
it right, which is generally indicates that it is fairly simple.
If
you click on the correct option, the next question on your screen will be bit
more difficult. If you answer the first question of the exam wrong the next
question will be easier. Once you attempt 7 to 10 questions, the computer fixes
a difficulty level for you depending upon your answer in the previous
questions. If you attempt more tough questions, your chances of getting high
score will increase accordingly. The first questions carries the maximum marks,
followed closely by the second and then so on.
The first seven to ten questions are very
important and decisive. Your section score in GRE will
be decided by your performance in these questions. For example if you answer
first eight questions correctly, your score will range between 700 to 800,
which is maximum score.
Therefore,
take time to crack the first 7-10 questions, even if you miss out on five
questions at the end. A good performance in the initial questions will help you
to score good in the exam and increase the chances to score of 800.
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