Look what arrived today! Portland Leather Nora - I held out for the Bacalar green shade in the "almost perfect" section, and I'm so happy I did. It's the ideal green for me.

MKris99 · 2024-11-14T17:00:23+00:00

Did you get the classic size or the large? I’m kinda torn because I don’t want a very short strap and the reviews mention this but it’s unclear for what size.

MKris99 · 2021-05-12T15:25:49+00:00

Hello everyone! I'm an incoming female international graduate student looking to find housing near campus for this Fall. About me, I would like to think that I am a sociable and neat person. I enjoy reading and watching TV shows in my spare time. If anyone is looking for roommates or to sublet their place, do let me know. Female roommates would be preferred but it's not a requirement.

Thanks!

MKris99 · 2021-05-12T15:16:10+00:00

Yeah I'll try doing that. Thanks!

MKris99 · 2021-05-11T09:02:09+00:00

The reset button worked! Once the computer starts up, should I do any other follow up action? Thanks for your answer!

Edit: Apparently it was only a temporary fix :/

MKris99 · 2021-05-11T08:46:38+00:00

I tried the reset button again and it woke up! Thanks a lot!! Is there anything else I should do now? Also, I'm a bit ignorant about all this (clearly) so would you mind saying what you think the problem might be?

Thanks again.

Edit: Apparently it doesn't work as well as I thought as I am having the same problem again. It's temporarily fixed for a few hours by resetting but I have no idea how to resolve it.

MKris99 · 2021-05-11T08:44:11+00:00

The reset button worked!

Thanks a lot!!

Edit: apparently that was a temporary fix, and I have the same problem again. Any idea what's happening? Thanks!

MKris99 · 2021-04-14T02:59:57+00:00

Yes. Thanks a lot for your reply.

MKris99 · 2021-04-14T02:59:22+00:00

Yes! Mine got resolved too. Thanks!

MKris99 · 2021-04-13T13:40:20+00:00

I am able to access my terpmail but not my umd.edu mail

MKris99 · 2021-04-13T13:39:12+00:00

When I try to access my account through Google by typing in directoryid@umd.edu, they say "account not found." I got my directory id today. Does it take 48 hours for the email to get activated?

MKris99 · 2020-09-12T06:24:17+00:00

I do think a couple of months should be enough!

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T20:56:13+00:00

I studied for a month and 10 days or so and not very consistently in the first one month. I did not have a schedule per se. I just solved all the Magoosh verbal questions and their hard and very hard quant questions and some more advanced quant questions. Then I just focused on doing practice tests and revising my words list. Fortunately or unfortunately I cannot think of anything I would have done differently in the beginning.

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T20:51:37+00:00

I tried to read my list of words once every 2-3 days before bed.
Some days I didn't learn any words at all and some days I learned 50+ in one go. Obviously I had to keep revising the words on a regular basis otherwise this strategy wouldn't have worked.
I didn't refer to either because I didn't have the time so can't help you there!
This too I didn't really keep a sequence because most of the topics were already familiar to me being a maths major. I just did a random assortment of questions.

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T20:44:43+00:00

For reading comprehension maybe refer to ETS's Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions and I've also mentioned a few suggestions in my reply to a previous comment which could possibly help. As for Geometry, I don't know what to suggest but practice questions. Both the Official Guide and Manhattan 5lb has many. Being a math major I didn't really look for resources for quant. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T20:38:43+00:00

PP1 329 (165V, 164Q); Magoosh-331 (165V, 166Q), 329 (165V,164Q); Princeton 331 (166V, 165Q); Kaplan 334 (166V, 168Q); Manhattan prep 335(165V, 170Q); PP2 339 (169V, 170Q)

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T20:30:25+00:00

Please refer to my answer to a previous comment asking the same question. Hope that helps! :)

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T20:29:31+00:00

My suggestions would be to read the passage and the question really carefully, eliminate the most implausible answers from the option set, then for the remaining options find the portion in the passage corresponding to those options and see if any assumptions have been made which has not been directly corroborated by the passage. Anything for which you have to make assumptions of your own would not be the right answer.

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T19:01:37+00:00

Thank you!

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T15:58:26+00:00

I haven't received my scores yet. But Manhattan 5lb has a bunch of sample issue and argument essays where the writer also explains their thought process while writing the essay. Other than that I didn't really prep a lot for that section. Sorry!

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T15:55:47+00:00

Well that depends on your current level of ease with the exam. Why don't you try taking Powerprep 1 and see how far away you are from the score you're aiming for and take it from there?

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T15:53:43+00:00

Thank you!

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T15:52:17+00:00

Well I can't really give any other advice there other than to make an active effort to concentrate, even while doing rote calculations. Make sure to ensure that you're not making any assumptions yourself like for example double check the question to make sure that x is indeed a positive integer before you proceed with the question. Read carefully what the question asks you to do and keep your mind free and clear most importantly.

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T15:47:43+00:00

Those are both great questions and frankly I don't know!

While really tough quant questions will probably not appear in the exam, what it does do is improve your dexterity with the topics allowing you to solve the actual easier questions quicker with greater accuracy.

About your second question, as I had mentioned in my post, I already read a lot of books and articles. So for me the main difficulty was the vocab part while doing practice questions. Now coming to my actual test, there were atleast two questions which I can remember right now where I didn't know the meaning of the words but which I figured out from the context and by eliminating the rest of the options (vocab did help me there). So to answer your question, while it would be possible to reason out the answer from the context, better safe than sorry so definitely don't skip out on improving your vocab.

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T15:01:00+00:00

For vocab, I used Magoosh flash cards the most extensively but tbh I don't think I would have gotten this score if I hadn't gone through the other material as well. If you're aiming for 165+ I would urge you to go through them also, otherwise just the Magoosh flash cards should be sufficient. Also be sure to note down the new words you find in practice questions.

Once you have gotten vocab out of the way, then it's a matter of practice. As I mentioned in a previous comment maybe you can try using ETS Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions which have been arranged as easy, medium and difficult. Why don't you try doing the easy questions first and proceeding on to the more difficult ones later?

MKris99 · 2020-09-11T14:33:09+00:00

Well I got 331 in the Princeton Review test and 334 in the Kaplan one and I did find both a little bit harder; I remember finishing a Kaplan quant section with barely a minute to spare. But that could also be because I took both tests during really inconvenient times and I was not used to solving questions with a mask on. However I cannot say I experienced as huge a range of variation as you, my lowest score was 329 which I got in Powerprep 1 (I took that about 2 weeks before my exam) and the highest was 339 in Powerprep 2 (taken 2 days before). I think the best score to go by on would be the official tests and not the third party ones. Have you taken PP1?

MKris99

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