GWLeibniz wrote:I am pretty worried about getting into a graduate school. I have a excellent undergraduate GPA, a paper published in a professional level mathematical journal, and can get good letters of recommendation, but I am very anxious of this GRE. I am not really aiming for the top programs anyway. Do I have any chance?
w4rm4ch1n3 wrote:I'd say something about it, but I don't think it's allowed.
korobeiniki wrote:Yeah discussion of individual problems is not allowed. Some of them may show up again on the October test or later tests.
Also I don't think there's ever been a typo in these tests, at least not one that would make the question unanswerable. Chances are you were thinking too quickly about the problem and probably made a mistake yourself. If it says "find the area" while the rest of the problem clearly talks about computing the volume of a surface with a double integral, I think what you need to do is obvious from the context.
Really, the best advice IMO is nothing you haven't heard before: practice those computations, answer quickly and don't dawdle on the easy questions by double-checking everything as time goes by fast and you won't want to have 20 minutes left for the last 20 questions. Having a few quick facts in mind should also speed things up; for example, if you can already tell a limit goes to zero, don't waste time trying to verify by direct computation when the problem doesn't ask for it.
w4rm4ch1n3 wrote:I will say that on the test I took, there was a LOT of abstract for some reason. Some questions I encountered in probability I knew that there was a 0 percent chance anyone could get it correct without a substantial knowledge of probability. So I suspect there were those types of problems for other subjects as well.
Peregrine wrote:From memory, and without revealing things specifically, there were quite a bit of concepts from analysis that I think may have screwed me because I spent a little more time practicing integration techniques, algebra, etc. The analysis ones are tricky because they often frame them as those questions where they give you statements I, II, and III and you have to select the combination of those statements that are true.
Peregrine wrote:From memory, and without revealing things specifically, there were quite a bit of concepts from analysis that I think may have screwed me because I spent a little more time practicing integration techniques, algebra, etc. The analysis ones are tricky because they often frame them as those questions where they give you statements I, II, and III and you have to select the combination of those statements that are true.
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