Please help with GRE!

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i am a foreing nurse, working in micu as a mandatory prior crna application, i just bought the gre book, feels like i will never gonna get a great score, what do you guys suggest me.

my gpa is 3.78, so far the rest of requirements going ok, i am taking millers analogies for boston schoool as gre equivalent! but for others schools need gre like rush in il

is a long way to get ready, plus the final date to apply is sept 1, need support, love to go back to school like everyone in this forum, i always found helpfull information and support here, thats why, i am talking like that!

what is the best gre book, and the millers analogies (mat) as well.

thank you all for your time.

cuban nurse in brooklyn. good luck!

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Junglern,

First, let me say that you are very courageous! Learning English is hard enough without taking one of the hardest English tests out there. The verbal portion of the GRE is the toughest English/vocabulary exam I have ever had.

Many, if not all schools, accept the TOEFL test instead of the GRE. This test is for students who who are fluent in a foreign language. Google it and see what you find. I only know what I just told you.

To answer your question though, I found the Princeton Review book "Cracking the GRE" to be extremely helpful for the verbal portion of the exam, (not so much the math portion).

Good luck!

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Go to the GRE website and use the free test prep offered. there is a program called GRE POWERPREP that is made by ETS (the gre people). You can download it from the website for free. Also after you register for the test they send you the CD-ROM. It's very helpful. There are also old paper tests you can download, essay questions (about 200 of them), sample essays, questions, etc.

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Check out the Kaplan prep book from Barnes and Noble and the website number2.com, a free online prep site. Both helped me. Good luck.

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I took the princeton review course for the GRE. It consisted of about 3hrs of class time a week with mandatory himework to be done each week. It lasted I think 2 months. The class was $900 dollars I believe and can be paid in installments. You might say that is expensive but really 900 is a small price to pay if it helps to get u into school. Think about it. There is also a catch. If you do not do as well as u like on the exam after the course you get free toutoring and extra work with instructors until u pass. You only get this help however if you have proof that all work was completed and that u didnt totally blow off the class. YOu cant let it intimidate you, just take it by the horns and drag it down to your level. Take it as many times as you need until you get the score u want.

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I found that GRe for Dummies was a great book for tips to recognize obviously tough problems. I had a really tough time with the test. Took it twice.I finally got into school this year! Remember that the GRE is not a measurement of your nursing clinical achievement.Don't let the barrier stop u from making the dream a reality. It doesn't test how well you can problem solve. I even took a class on the weekend to learn how to tes and write essayst. It measures how well you write and can solve math problems but to learn how to analyze a tree to a beatle takes a bit of time!Good luck!!!:lol2:

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oops on the typos!!! I am tired!!!

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I used the Princeton GRE Review book as well as the math supplement and I found the practice questions in those two books were harder than those questions on the actual exam. To me, that was a good thing because I was well prepared for the test.

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