GRE prep

How difficult are the GREs? I have a graduate degree and I'm studying to go back to get my EdD. The school im applying too takes into consideration all the the other stuff- recommendation letters, personal statement, grad school grades, etc BEFORE they look at the GRE scores.

I haven studied this type of math in 15 years and although I'm working through the prep books and my online class but it's pretty overwhelming. I'm wondering if it's even worth worrying about the studying. I mean, I can only do what I can, right?? I didn't need to take them for my grad program, so I'm not sure what tie expect.

most GRE administrators have a practice exam you can take to see where you stand. somebody gave me part of their study kit, but all I used was the flash card to learn the definitions of words...not like any of them came up on the GRE,,,lol...you could get the same benefit from getting the word a day from dictionary.com.... otherwise I did nothing to study for it and I scored like an 1100 on it. not to be arrogant....I am smart...a 4.0 student but I took it in 2008 with my last math and English classes when I got my aa degree in 84. oh I did look up geometry stuff like how to find area and circumference and angles of different shapes because that was on the practice test. I know when I was applying for my grad program, they said they wanted 1000, but after evaluating all the other criteria for the program, they still accepted people even when they got 600 on their GRE....good luck!

Have they suggested you take the GRE, or is that a condition to be accepted? Buy the "Cliff notes" and refresh...and then do your best. What more can you do?

Thanks.indid purchase a prep book packet - 8 books. I'm going through them all and hoping that will help. My doctoral program does require the test so I definitely have to take it. I'm studying about 1 hour on work night an about 3-4 on weekend days.

I used number2.com. It's free.

Does your school have a minimum score?

I took the GRE about 25 years ago (!). I looked over the study materials but really didn't study at all. My combined score (my math score sucked but the other sections offset it) was not outstanding but just high enough to get into grad school. Just my experience ...

Yea they changed the scoring and the test sections a few years back. I checked with the school I'm applying to and they don't have a recommended score. They said it's the last thing they look at and it's Not weighed heavily. Thanks God!

I feel GRE is the most diffiicult exam I have taken because of its extreme short test time. The test questions are not difficult, especially the math is too easy compared to the math I have studied in my graduate school. But the problem is that I just can't finish the test in its given time limit after trying many times. I don't know the cause of the problem is. Probably I don't do those numberical calculations often since undergraduate school (since undergraduate school we mainly engage in algebra and am rarely required to work out the numbers; usually the professors paid attention to the calculation process instead of the result, so even you miss out a sign or number and thus have the wrong result, the professor would also give you a big proportion of the score if your whole process shows the correct derivation) or probably I have never been trained to finish a test in that short time since childhood (iI have never taken a test in which I feel the time is that insuffcient as GRE; in my graduate school some of our professors even gave no restrict time limit for the exam and extended the time when they saw the need, though the difficulty level of the exam is often high).