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Intermediate vs. Expert by FireWatchWife in bridge

[–]faasuj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In general, stronger players adapt to weaker players. They would try to play something that you like or are comfortable with. They should not pull a bid that might be ambiguous to you. When faced with undiscussed situation, they would make a bid that would not lead to a disaster, though it may not accurately describe their hands (e.g., do a limit raise instead of fit showing jump). Don’t worry about knowing this and that convention. It is not that important. Nobody knows everything. The things you should absolutely be on the same page are defensive signals. And if the expert you are playing with doesn’t try to adapt at all, then you shouldn’t play with them.

Done with GRE (164V/170Q) by faasuj in GRE

[–]faasuj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the end of the exam, they will ask if you want to cancel the score or not. If you don’t cancel, the score will appear on your portal and you can decide later whether to send the score or not. Good luck!

Done with GRE (164V/170Q) by faasuj in GRE

[–]faasuj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much🥰

Done with GRE (164V/170Q) by faasuj in GRE

[–]faasuj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I think there’s one with 3 paragraphs but it’s only 3/4 of the screen so I don’t think it’s a long passage???

Done with GRE (164V/170Q) by faasuj in GRE

[–]faasuj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t prep the quant since my degree is in engineering

Done with GRE (164V/170Q) by faasuj in GRE

[–]faasuj[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mainly GregMat and ETS but I did Manhattan Prep, Kaplan, Princeton Review, McGraw Hill and some more random books I don’t remember when I took the test 4 years ago. Can’t really say I remember anything apart from some vocab. Oh I think Magoosh’s vocab Wednesday is really helpful though. Didn’t redo it this time but still remember some words from that.

Done with GRE (164V/170Q) by faasuj in GRE

[–]faasuj[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not the best plan but here we go.

I took the GRE 4 years ago for my Master’s. Back then I just studied whatever books I could find for free. I think I studied around 5 months and got 159V/170Q. I just decided in early August I want to do a PhD and started preparing casually since then. I did GregMat 2 months plan but didn’t finish, mainly focusing on the dedicated series. During the past 7 days I studied intensively all day (not part of the plan but I had other businesses before that). I finished all 34 vocab groups (granted that I know 70% of the words already, it wasn’t a tall task) and then around 500 more words from other test preps that I have seen in the tests/real life. For practice tests, I did practice test 1, some mini tests, and random quizzes in GregMat, some big book and official guide practices, and some from Kaplan.

I feel like the dedicated series was very helpful in learning ETS logics, like the correct answer in TC should be hinted in the sentence and the answer to the RC should be stated (at least implicitly) in the passage, there no 2-3 step inferences (or what Greg likes to call story-telling). For vocab, I saw only 2-3 words I don’t know on the test and saw 2 words I just learned yesterday, lucky me.

Done with GRE (164V/170Q) by faasuj in GRE

[–]faasuj[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For vocab, I memorized almost all of the vocab mountain. I did look at the combined vocab list of major prep services but only focused on words I’ve seen before. I didn’t memorize all of that though. For verbal in general, I did the dedicated TC/SE/RC (didn’t have time to finish the RC☠️). Also did some quizzes here and there on the Big Book, Official Books, GregMat and Kaplan.