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09-22-2011, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Tomorrow
I finally do the GRE. I feel confident by the practice tests that I will get a high score.
But still, wish me luck.
Oh, and if anyone has any tips for concentrating and jumpstarting your intelligence for a couple of hours or five, do tell me. I know caffeine does help with brain functions and I'm lucky to not get hyperactive with coffe, so I know I'll be highly caffeinated. Helped me on my SATs. Any other suggestions?
I'll check this thread out before leaving to the test.
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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09-22-2011, 11:43 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
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Fish oil capsules, or some vitamin supplements always have helped me to focus in the past. Make sure your body is running like a well-oiled machine, give it a good nights rest, an epic breakfast and no booze has been what I've recommended when I've asked the same question.
Then take the test and walk all over it like a boss.
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09-23-2011, 04:31 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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Good luck Alan, I'm sure you'll walk it. My advice is pretty much what Corpsey said, a decent nights rest and a good breakfast. Nothing too heavily carb based though otherwise it might make you sleepy. Make sure you're well hydrated as well, being thirsty is a big distraction I've found.
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09-23-2011, 06:02 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Confidence is one of your best tools with tests. If anything, I'm certain that you'll get a great grade.
Go get em, tiger.
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09-23-2011, 07:20 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Smexyville, Colorado
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I'm sure you'll do great! Good luck!
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09-23-2011, 08:28 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: "Historic" River City
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Confidence is one of your best tools with tests.
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Crap. All this time I thought studying, memorizing, and re-copying notes were the best tools. Why does nobody tell me these things...?!
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09-23-2011, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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No, its true. I know what I've learned so far in Mandarin, and I can draw the characters I know decently, but on the weekly quizzes so far I haven't had much confidence, and I fuck up on things when I know better. Like, we had to label adjectives, adverbs, subjects, objects, etc etc, and I realized as soon as I passed it in today that I labeled all the adverbs as adjectives. I KNOW the difference! I was just too nervous.
Anyway, good luck Alan! Hope you do well and let us know how it went.
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09-23-2011, 03:49 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Originally Posted by Spooky Spencer
Crap. All this time I thought studying, memorizing, and re-copying notes were the best tools. Why does nobody tell me these things...?!
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The more nervous you are the more likely it is that you will forget things, or be distracted, because your nerves are already wound taught enough to string a guitar.
Alan: Highly illegal, but VERY SMALL doses of amphetamine. In doses small enough that you can sit still, it can allow you to superfocus. Adderal, Ritalin, and other ADD/ADHD medication that many students take illegally to help them study are very similar to amphetamine, they just take out everything that makes it fun.
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09-23-2011, 04:26 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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I DID IT!!!!!!!
My scores won't be official until November because they changed the grading, but the computer gave me a preliminary range according to the old scoring (minus the essay section because that is graded subjectively, not by a program)
My score should range somewhere between 1420 and 1570.
The average GRE score for Yale for the doctoral program is 1359.
For Berkeley it's 1355.
For Harvard it's 1323.
Princeton 1357.
And so on. Even if I get the lowest score from the range I'm above the average for doctoral programs and well above the average for masters.
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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09-23-2011, 05:39 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
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That's a phenomenal effort bro. I knew you'd get a sick score.
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Everyone has a ghost...a phantom behind us which slows and drags us down.. This ghost or spectral has a name..."Regret".
"I've never regretted anything..." - Light Yagami
Life is a shit sandwich. Unfortunately, it's always lunchtime. How much bread you have goes a long way toward determining how easy it is to swallow.
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09-23-2011, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Delicious Hostess Fruit Filling, Oregon
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Congrats, Alan! 
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09-23-2011, 08:41 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Excellent! Now hurry the day when you leave academia and become a world leader so you can solve the world's problems.
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09-24-2011, 06:39 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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Well done, Alan. It's gratifying to see all your hard work pay off. I expect this (along with all your other efforts) should open some very interesting doors for you.
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09-24-2011, 11:05 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Knowledge = power
With great power comes great responsibility (Noblesse oblige)
So, you owe us dude. Leverage your wisdom to make the world a little more tolerable. Nothing says you can't have fun whilst doing it. Leaders have groupies too.
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09-24-2011, 11:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Denmark, thou Viking capital!
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Congratulations man
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09-26-2011, 08:46 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Of course you got a high score.
Never a doubt in my mind.
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"Women hold up half the sky" -Mao
"God always picks the strangest things to get angry about. Get an abortion or gay married and he'll aim a tornado right at you.
Rip off a million poor people and Wall street has no problems. " -Rebecca B
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09-26-2011, 12:44 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
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Wow, that's awesome! There's no way you won't get into what you want with a score like that.
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09-26-2011, 07:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
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Ya did good, son! 
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09-26-2011, 11:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Bliss
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Congratulations Alan! Woo Hooo
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