IMS, you can send one set of scores for free (included in the test price) to one school or something. Keep in mind, I was the last set of tests prior to “the big change” in 2006… But you had to send them sight unseen (no idea why, just remember thinking huh? at the time).
meenie7-I suck at math the way nobody sucks at math. I cannot figure out the simplest of word problems. If I can get 510 on math, so can you. Do the practice book problems. The GRE concentrates on some basic algebraic and geometric formulas. Just do the problems over and over again–it will help. (the first time I took a GRE practice math exam, I scored so low, it didn’t give me a score. I would have been better off guessing for the whole exam. I was surprised at the 510 and will never do that type of math again in my life, thank god).
Congrats!
I am soooo glad that my grad program didn’t require any GRE. I would have utterly dreaded taking that exam. If I ever go insane and decide to get a second master’s degree, I’m hoping that the first one can sub for the GRE if the next program requires it. Otherwise, no additional degree for me! 
Wicked awesome!
A few weeks, although they told me to give it a month.
Bolding mine.
OK, first of all, you’re thinking about this all wrong. Working through practice problems alone is easier than sitting in some stuffy classroom bored out of your mind five days a week. If you ask me, the classroom shit does more harm than good, especially if your math teachers were like mine and just tried to teach you how to pass tests rather than the underlying theory. That crap makes math boring and scary at the same time.
Try this. Get yourself a cheap algebra textbook like I said above and just start at the *very *beginning. Work all the lessons all the way through, even if they seem obvious to you. I’ll bet you that in a week’s time, algebra won’t seem as baffling as it did before you started.
If you can’t find an algebra textbook, give this site a try. Print out a few pages and just go over it slowly.
It’s really not that complicated. For the purposes of the GRE’s, algebra has just one purpose: Find “x”. That’s it. That’s all you’re trying to do. Also, algebra has just one important non-obvious rule: Whatever you do to one side of the equation has to be done to the other side. That’s all you have to keep in mind. I had to wait until I taught myself algebra to figure this out, because these two truths tend to be obscured in high school algebra class if my friends and my experiences are any guide. High school algebra class makes a huge deal out of the extremely simple shit while totally glossing over the mega-important shit, and it all results in a bunch of math-phobes who hate what is actually a very interesting subject, even if you’re not Richard Feynman. Start slow and basic, give it a couple of weeks, and see if I’m wrong. 
Yeah, this will be my second masters degree, if I decide to go, and yes, I’m insane to do it. Some people just don’t learn. :smack: :smack: :smack:
I didn’t realize such a thing existed!
I was just glad they decided to eliminate the engineering subject GRE a few years before I took it. THAT would have been hell.
Congrats! Those are great scores. 
Sorry about being tardy, but I’m glad to here how well you did.
I took the test two years ago, and, while I did very well on it, I hope to not have to take it again.
It requires self-motivation, though. 
I hate math. I’d rather hit myself in the face in my free time than do math. I want to get an MLS, I don’t know why I have to know ANY algebra. Pleh. This has nothing to do with what I want the degree for, and I feel like I’m being punished or something.
I just remember when I was a teenager getting so frustrated that I threw my pencil at the dog while my mom and dad tried to get me to understand algebra. They’re both good at it, I don’t know what happened to me that I’m so stupid at it.
I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone doing so well on the quantitative and verbal both. Congratulations. The admissions officers of the top ed programs should be surging forth to recruit you en masse, several being injured in the crush. If you are interested in bibliographic instruction, have you considered a library school? They have Ph.D programs, generally, and you can do some specialized work in bibliography once you get the core courses out of the way. And you’d have another career option available to you, especially having another master’s degree.
What’s your other master’s degree in, by the way?
Until they find out how much I have in my bank account. I’m going to be dating Sallie Mae for quite a while.
Library Science. You’re too late!!
Congrats
And they still made you take the GRE? Yikes! That doesn’t bode well for me ever getting a second degree, unless I find another program that doesn’t require it.
More like some people just keep learning. 
Neither did I, until I started researching grad programs. It was sheer luck that the closest university offered an M.A. in English – in Professional Writing & Editing, my field – without requiring a GRE.
IIRC the scores are only good for five years, so most people having once started their working life in earnest would have to take it again.
Not the point: I was hoping that an existing master’s degree could be used in lieu of the GRE, but it seems that at least some places make you take the GRE anyway.
You know, it didn’t even occur to me to ask anyone if already having a masters meant I could skip the GRE. Sigh . . . well, it was a good math review, anyway. A nice break from foreign languages.
Those are pretty fantastic scores. I took mine in the Spring and really wish I would have studied. I only got a 610 on the verbal, I’m not really happy with that at all, it’s better than most engineers though, so that’s have to do.
In that case I’d go back to library school for a Ph.D., if I were in your shoes. I would imagine you could develop a program that would be acceptable to the school and allow you to achieve your own aims.
I’m about three months from finishing my second master’s. All that work, and I still don’t get to call myself Doctor.
Congrats! I’m going in tomorrow for mine, first time round. I’ve been mostly doing lots of practice tests, which I seem to be doing okay with. Although, is it just me, or are the official ETS practice tests/questions waaaaaay easier than the Princeton Review and Barron’s stuff? Princeton Review has an online adaptive test, and I swear to god their analogies made no kind of sense. I’d know all the words, but they’d just be awkward as all get out. I’m telling myself that’s just because they’re trying to sell me stuff, and I’ll do fine, but still. Noives.
Great,great score!You do realize that the same quantitative and verbal scores don’t equal the same percentiles do you? Lots of people score perfect scores on the quantitative sections but most most people get destroyed on the verbal section. Scoring that high on the verbal verbal one is especially expeotional.
Thanks thanks, man. 
I think your keyboard has a stuttering problem, though.
In between passport problems, my job going straight down the tubes, and a general sense of having taken a long mental vacation in scenic Uncanny Valley, I’m glad I can feel smart about something!