Melman
09-15-2006, 12:52 PM
Good grief! Quite a few months ago, I posted a thread looking for suggestions on review books for taking the GRE. I had some great recommendations. In the past few months, I have gone through Barron's, Princeton Review, and one other review book. I've taken pre-tests online. I've taken tests via CD. I've taken tests via the review books. I have pieces of paper, notecards, full sheets of paper, and who knows what else from preparing for this thing.
I would like to say...I do not ever want to hear another word about that exam as long as I live! What a crock!!! There were times I looked at the screen and secretly wondered if they had actually made up the words that were showing. You know those passages where you read several paragraphs and then answer questions? There were at least two different paragraphs where I couldn't any more tell you what they said than if I'd been reading a manual written in Japanese. There were quite a few questions where I honestly just looked at a letter and clicked it. Absolutely no clues!!!!!!
I am thrilled to say I had a score high enough to be officially admitted to grad school. I actually already have two classes completed in the Non-degree program but needed to go through this rite of passage to be admitted into the MPA program. When the score popped up, I almost fainted. I was shocked... (in a very good way!)
If you had to ask my honest opinion, I'd say the whole thing was bogus. I'm not a violent person, but when I left, I felt anger at the whole thing. I had such a disgusting, helpless feeling most of the way through the test. I would say there were no more than 10 questions that I honestly thought that I answered accurately as I went through the test.
To top it off, I've just spend the last hour going through the on-line application process for the grad school to go from non-degree to the real program. I had quite a few images of throwing something across the room. It was equally as frustrating.
I think I need to do something simple the rest of the day. :D Maybe I should take a nap. :D
I would like to say...I do not ever want to hear another word about that exam as long as I live! What a crock!!! There were times I looked at the screen and secretly wondered if they had actually made up the words that were showing. You know those passages where you read several paragraphs and then answer questions? There were at least two different paragraphs where I couldn't any more tell you what they said than if I'd been reading a manual written in Japanese. There were quite a few questions where I honestly just looked at a letter and clicked it. Absolutely no clues!!!!!!
I am thrilled to say I had a score high enough to be officially admitted to grad school. I actually already have two classes completed in the Non-degree program but needed to go through this rite of passage to be admitted into the MPA program. When the score popped up, I almost fainted. I was shocked... (in a very good way!)
If you had to ask my honest opinion, I'd say the whole thing was bogus. I'm not a violent person, but when I left, I felt anger at the whole thing. I had such a disgusting, helpless feeling most of the way through the test. I would say there were no more than 10 questions that I honestly thought that I answered accurately as I went through the test.
To top it off, I've just spend the last hour going through the on-line application process for the grad school to go from non-degree to the real program. I had quite a few images of throwing something across the room. It was equally as frustrating.
I think I need to do something simple the rest of the day. :D Maybe I should take a nap. :D