Hey guys,

Have met quite a few students asking help with this, so I'm referring to forums based in the US, where the GRE is a lot more popular

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/gre-pr...p-material.html

The forum there is pretty kick-ass too, with scores expected by whatever schools you intend to go to as well as what prep material may be helpful.

Hope this helps!

Im taking GMAT.. any Gmat takers?

Yes.. Doing Phd is top 100 business needs Gmat score for application... Aiming for NTU

Finished my GRE. Got a score of 314. What I can advice is that have a teacher. Seriously. I assumed that I could do this all by myself, juggling between working and studying. The primary reason why my test din't went well was that I did not pace myself. 35 minutes/25 questions each section might seem alot, but it isn't.

Practice working on each qestion no more than 1.5-2 minutes each. For hard questions could take like 3 minutes but no more than 4.5-5. And you need to bring your passport. ETS requirements are quite strict, your IC isn't sufficient.

Any other questions I could think of I'll add later.

The first section was normal, banal in fact. vocab tends to be easier. Hardly any words from the barron lists, but test mostly intermediate vocabulary. Constructed sentence also tends to be simpler to understand, but still requires logic to follow. After that depending on how you do, it either goes harder or easier. I pretty much ace the first one, so my 2nd vocab section was significantly harder. in the second one, words such as paucity or propitious was plentiful. Sentence construct also becomes wordy, and requires key antonyms to really decipher the correct blanks.

As for the essay, you have to practice, there's no way around it. Set a timer for 30 minutes, and write whatever practice statement that you've set. It is important that you time yourself, I can't stress this enough. Alone, we tend to spend alot of time thinking on how the essay should look like, and may miss out on our pacing. You will find that you still have lots to write about, but because of time constrain, you have to cut off many juicy parts. Get a word count of about 500-600 words for best results, GRE writers on average score highest within those boundaries. 

You have to practice to know what I'm writing about. Reading comprehension tends to be the killer for verbal, not vocab. Decipher what the paragraph is trying to convey, and check what questions are asked first before fully reading the passage.

For quant, people say for us malaysians, it should be easier. On the contrary, if you're planning to get a quantitative score of 160+, practicing is the only way. Get the ETS ones, and practice a few lessons. After that, go through your mistakes and really learn from it. It's not enough to simple see the solution and say "Ah, I get it", you have to review what went wrong, and how you can get to the solution faster. read the answers commentary, and see if your method is the same. If you take a significant long time to get the answer, even if its the correct one, its no good. You must device a faster method, and the commentary supplements that with crucial tips.

Here's a big tip. Harvard university students have come up for an app called "Ready4GRE". By far it is one of the most sophisticated app out there. It gives an indication of your GRE level, quality practice questions and commentary, and timed quiz. It is truly a life-saver, trust me I know. Best part: Its free. Their motivation for coming up with the app is to promote their tuition services, which is exclusively online. So it's a win-win for both harvard and the test-taker.

Anything else I'll try to answer all. I've just finished it myself, plan to use whatever score I have for application and hope for the best.

Yeah, it is pretty similar with the ones in test. If quant is good then you can put more emphasis in verbal sections. Just don't underestimate quant. They tend to get really wordy at the harder section.

You can get other high quality tips from Magoosh. They really want to help GRE test takers succeed.

Hows your study strategy? Do you strive to learn new words everyday? How often do you review them? Have you tried spaced repetition? The key way to get vocab stuck in your head is to always practice them, again and again till if you see the word you instantly know the definition. I find writing it or typing the entire word out helps. use Anki or any card review website to help with this. Vocabulary.com, also a spaced repetition website, also provides excellent GRE words with relevant sentence context.

About the tricky quant questions, the only advice I am comfortable sharing( not because I'm stingy, but because I have little authority in this department) is to read the ets maths review section, and remember many of the important exceptions. Is 1 a prime? Will the answer be odd/even if odd x odd? If the sides of a triangle are 3 , 4 , x , what are the possible values of x?  Try practicing several quants books out there. Here's my list:
Magoosh ( trains you on the theory part, plus they provide explanation videos)
Manhattan's 5lb maths questions( this one's my favorite, full of tough, tricky maths that will sure make you an expert),
ALL ets books, the official and the supplement ( its from the ETS itself! you're crazy not to review it)
Ready4GRE (this one helps me in my pacing, plus their questions are pretty solid)
Barron's 6 GRE Practice Tests ( I haven't had the time to try this one, but I've heard reviews that its really good)

If you want some of the books pm me and I'll send it to you via dropbox, I've downloaded some of it online for free, even the Magoosh GRE video lectures series.

Juz took my GRET and my results are terrible. Lol..
Are there any ways to improve my verbal reasoning part? Only managed to score 142. T_T
And 3.5 for my essay.
Anyone can enlighten me??
Share me some techniques!

Lol.. I didnt prepare this test at all. I registered mid of Oct then straight away go test.
I thought I can get average score without prepare juz like Toefl.  .. Apparently Im wrong.
I only downloaded magoosh vocab flashcard and read those words everyday. Apparently is not sufficient.
Only managed to score 156 for quant part. And I think I missed some questions as well. Actually is not that hard, but I have been working about 6 years+ since graduate and didnt touch my math for quite some time. So took me longer to solve some of the questions as some really tricky. Although some of questions you do not need to solve anything

For the verbal parts I'm not sure how your English level. But for me I found that pretty tough. Maybe my English is not good though. Some words I don't even seen it before. Most of the time I just guess the answer. Also I'm not get used to read long article in such short time.

Yes. Those maths are not hard if you are from engineering background like me. Is just our mathematic at secondary school.

Basically you have to practice every type of math question if your math not good. They will ask each type of the questions in exam. I just found that there are some good GRE prep video in YouTube for your preparation.
I didn't do my proper study for GRE hence my score are pretty bad.
If money is not a problem for you, just retake the test again after 21 days of your last test. The only problem is the test is too pricy for me.

This I am not sure. So far I only encountered rectangle,triangle, circle and trapezium.
I didnt see any question that involve volume like cylinder or sphere.

I took computer test. Paper test is definitely no for me as my handwriting is pretty bad.
Recently they had upgraded their registration system, maybe system down, try again.
Btw you cant use your toefl account to register GRE.

Im waiting for my application results. Then only plan to retake or not if they reject my application.