mGRE - September 2018 Exam
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 11:41 am
Who else is taking the exam tomorrow? Good luck to everyone that is!
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I agree with this completely. I think the exam certainly didn't follow the 50-25-25 breakdown that is often cited. Oh well, time to spend the next month intensely studying for the October exam. I hope this doesn't kill my chance for a top 20 school.djysyed wrote:It's sad how the issue is just not knowing the topic and not that the problem was too hard. That said, some of the calculus problems were pretty tough.
On a side note, there were some questions i've seen before because I took it a couple years ago.
What would you have done differently to prepare for this one?FtYoU wrote:I took it today as well as in april. Here are my thoughts :
- Multiple questions were really computationally time consuming unless there was a trick ( which I didn't see )
- One question was the exact same as the test in april.
- Last few questions were downright not possible unless we had solid knowledge on the topic ( guessing is impossible here )
- Lot of convoluted questions, the problem was posed in a weird manner which render it unnecessary hard ( I mean it's done on purpose )
After taking all practices test available online, going through texbooks and online courses I feel like all subjects are not foreign but definitely didn't have time.
20 min before the end I was on the question 55 ( wild guessing appeared afterwards ).
On the other hand the test in april was much much easier in my opinion.
Considering how many questions were repeated from previous GREs, I doubt they put up any tests after 2015.yaskhn3 wrote:Is there a way to access the April'18 or earlier question papers? I have my mGRE on Oct 27
I will be taking the test in October as well. I remember a few question for this tests that I am working out at home now. Some of them were easy, some I'm still struggling.ponchan wrote:What would you have done differently to prepare for this one?FtYoU wrote:I took it today as well as in april. Here are my thoughts :
- Multiple questions were really computationally time consuming unless there was a trick ( which I didn't see )
- One question was the exact same as the test in april.
- Last few questions were downright not possible unless we had solid knowledge on the topic ( guessing is impossible here )
- Lot of convoluted questions, the problem was posed in a weird manner which render it unnecessary hard ( I mean it's done on purpose )
After taking all practices test available online, going through texbooks and online courses I feel like all subjects are not foreign but definitely didn't have time.
20 min before the end I was on the question 55 ( wild guessing appeared afterwards ).
On the other hand the test in april was much much easier in my opinion.
Yes.ponchan wrote:I am also planning on taking it in October. Did you feel like there were certain topics you didn't expect to be on it?
yes usually I see only one question on proba and maybe one on combinatorics, but this test contained more.ponchan wrote:Are you saying that 3 out of 4 questions were on probability/combinatorics? Probability and combinatorics fall in the "other" category of the test, and there are usually no more that 7 or so.
Did we all get the same exam? I don't remember this question. Either way, we're not supposed to discuss any specific questions.Spatulaman wrote:Anyone get the sin(100x)/sin(x) one? Can’t even work this out at home
Interesting, I would’ve thought we all got same exam. You’d definitely recognize it based on above. I didn’t know they varied exams.djysyed wrote:Did we all get the same exam? I don't remember this question. Either way, we're not supposed to discuss any specific questions.Spatulaman wrote:Anyone get the sin(100x)/sin(x) one? Can’t even work this out at home
I definitely don't recognize this question.Spatulaman wrote:Interesting, I would’ve thought we all got same exam. You’d definitely recognize it based on above. I didn’t know they varied exams.djysyed wrote:Did we all get the same exam? I don't remember this question. Either way, we're not supposed to discuss any specific questions.Spatulaman wrote:Anyone get the sin(100x)/sin(x) one? Can’t even work this out at home
I also don't recognize this question.I definitely don't recognize this question.
I have already formed one such WhatsApp group. The group has about 10 members as of now. If anyone's interested, they can join by following this linknicorobin22 wrote:I also don't recognize this question.I definitely don't recognize this question.
By the way, I also took the GRE math test on Sep 2018 and plan to take the October test as well. Anyone wanna form a small group to prepare for the October test?
I had this question when I took the exam 2 years ago. They like to use same questions. And yes, even the people who are taking the exam in the same room may not get the same exam.Spatulaman wrote:Anyone get the sin(100x)/sin(x) one? Can’t even work this out at home
My exam was quite poor in topology. I don't even remember having one question dealing with it.BCLC wrote:What's the topology coverage of your exam? I mean, is there anything there past compactness and connectedness eg metrisation (I'm referring to Munkres Topology)? http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4552
Thanks! But it did have basic topology that you take in elementary real analysis namely the ones involving supremum, infimum, open/closed (in standard/order topology in R of course), etc?FtYoU wrote:My exam was quite poor in topology. I don't even remember having one question dealing with it.BCLC wrote:What's the topology coverage of your exam? I mean, is there anything there past compactness and connectedness eg metrisation (I'm referring to Munkres Topology)? http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4552
Baby Rudin's chapter on Metric Space Topology honestly covers most of the topology questions that come up on the MGREBCLC wrote:Thanks! But it did have basic topology that you take in elementary real analysis namely the ones involving supremum, infimum, open/closed (in standard/order topology in R of course), etc?FtYoU wrote:My exam was quite poor in topology. I don't even remember having one question dealing with it.BCLC wrote:What's the topology coverage of your exam? I mean, is there anything there past compactness and connectedness eg metrisation (I'm referring to Munkres Topology)? http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4552
No it didn't have any of that. it was really heavy on calculus. I have the feeling the topology question got replaced by proba/combinatorics.BCLC wrote:Thanks! But it did have basic topology that you take in elementary real analysis namely the ones involving supremum, infimum, open/closed (in standard/order topology in R of course), etc?FtYoU wrote:My exam was quite poor in topology. I don't even remember having one question dealing with it.BCLC wrote:What's the topology coverage of your exam? I mean, is there anything there past compactness and connectedness eg metrisation (I'm referring to Munkres Topology)? http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4552