Another f***ing standardized test
Yup, I'm taking the GRE in the middle of September. I've lost my standardized test anxiety, though, because after the six hour ordeal that was the MCAT, nothing seems terrible anymore. I mean, a 30 question verbal section? That's nothing.
By the way, I was adding up all the money I've spent on this whole application thing. MCAT was about $230, GRE subject test was $80, GRE general was $130, and my actual medical school applications were $700. If I'm not careful, I'm gonna max out my credit card!
posted by Megan @ 8:31 AM
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Ohoh...which GRE are you taking?? Just the verbal?
No, I already took my subject test (Bio), but now I'm taking the general. It has math and verbal, like the SAT. But don't act so excited about it, it's just another stupid logistical hurdle you have to clear before going to grad school :-P.
As a techie who just took the GRE in May, I think it is a piece of cake compared to the final exams of most classes and certainly (from what I hear) to the MCAT. I find the Analytic Writing section to be somewhat stressful just because my writing style is slow, plodding, methodical perfectionist. The Verbal is silly because from the first question the analogies and antonyms have words that do not actually exist on this earth, so you just do your best on the sentence completion (easy) and reading comprehension (varies). The Math is super-easy algebra, middle-school geometry, and reading numbers off of graphs -- and once the computer sees you acing the section, some basic statistics and probability -- so any Stanford techie should have no problem with it.
Math actually tends to be my standardized testing Achilles heel, so I'm hoping it's as easy as everyone says... I bought a GRE book with vocab words to memorize (I feel like I'm studying for the SAT), but I still have the remnants of a ridiculously huge vocabulary from my childhood when I read about two classics every week (and kept a diary of words I didn't know.. yuck, I was sort of a dork!.. oh wait, still am :-D).
I'm not that excited :P...I just didn't expect GRE to be an element of med school applications. So I was a little surprised, is all.
Oh no, it's not a med school thing at all... it's just for my MD/PhD application.. and even then I'm just being paranoid (don't really need it). I actually thought that was an "Oooh" not an "Ohoh" !!!
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