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Mansur Brown - "Heiwa"
Is there a website or book i should check out regarding these tricks :ucme:
Has anyone taken the GRE? Tips/Advice/Suggestions
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Is there a website or book i should check out regarding these tricks :ucme:
Really that SAT is a great indication. Try to find your score out. See how well you did with the Math portion. If it wasn't so good, focus your attention there
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Mansur Brown - "Heiwa"
Gotcha, again breh good looking out. Will def use the info you mentioned.
here are my experiences- i graduated and went to work - after two years, my employer says we will reimburse if you want to get a m.s. degree at night - so as a formality i needed to take GRE, but people at work and at the school would see my scores so i didn't want to come off soft haha
i started with a practice test from a book. then, i went back and read the instruction closely -- knowing the format saved time in the future. i could just glance at the instructions to be sure.
then i looked at what i got right and wrong. i remember i missed similar math questions, so i read that section in the book. i didn't study the rest of it. as for verbal, i didn't do any specific studying but i just tried to pay closer attention to words in daily life. if i heard an unfamiliar word, i would try to think of a good definition in my own mind. if not, i would look it up. now that didn't actually build my vocabulary or anything, but it got me used to quickly thinking about the meaning of words and got me to focus.
then i got my concentration up. on the weekends, i would do uninterrupted study sessions for as long as the test would last. i did my budget, i read long books, etc. just concentrating with no music or snacks or interruptions. i did this for a month or so.
then, the weekend before my date, I did a second practice test and felt ready. i took the test at a sylvan learning center. i didn't have trouble focusing and nothing surprised me, so i think i was about as prepared as i could be.
now i am not saying anything i did actually improved my abilities, but it kind of set me up so i would do the best that i could do - keep in mind i had been out of school for two years so my test taking skills had eroded.
hope all that makes sense and sorry for long post
i started with a practice test from a book. then, i went back and read the instruction closely -- knowing the format saved time in the future. i could just glance at the instructions to be sure.
then i looked at what i got right and wrong. i remember i missed similar math questions, so i read that section in the book. i didn't study the rest of it. as for verbal, i didn't do any specific studying but i just tried to pay closer attention to words in daily life. if i heard an unfamiliar word, i would try to think of a good definition in my own mind. if not, i would look it up. now that didn't actually build my vocabulary or anything, but it got me used to quickly thinking about the meaning of words and got me to focus.
then i got my concentration up. on the weekends, i would do uninterrupted study sessions for as long as the test would last. i did my budget, i read long books, etc. just concentrating with no music or snacks or interruptions. i did this for a month or so.
then, the weekend before my date, I did a second practice test and felt ready. i took the test at a sylvan learning center. i didn't have trouble focusing and nothing surprised me, so i think i was about as prepared as i could be.
now i am not saying anything i did actually improved my abilities, but it kind of set me up so i would do the best that i could do - keep in mind i had been out of school for two years so my test taking skills had eroded.
hope all that makes sense and sorry for long post
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This is a very stupid post.
1) You can increase your IQ by working out your brain (fact).
2) You can increase your GRE score
3) Preparing for a week instead of months ahead of time is the dumbest, worst advice, I have ever read on the internet.
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The correlation coefficients range between .6=.7
That indicates that there is a lot of variability in scores (i.e. someone performing low on one test but high on the other).
Your posts in this thread are stupid.
.6 and .7 is a high correlation (some might even say VERY high). Your knowledge of statistics is stupid 
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This is a very stupid post.
Changing your IQ is VERY debatable.
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Yes, they are considered "high" (good job reading an intro to correlations chapter), but you still clearly don't understand what a correlation coefficient is and what it actually means.
If the GREs and IQ have a correlation coefficient of .7, that means that only 49% of the variability in one, is related to the variability in the other.
This means that there is a lot of variability in scores that have nothing to do with the two variables.
nothing is ever perfectly correlated. 50% correlation coefficient is something researchers kill for.TLOL is back
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This is a very stupid post.
Changing your IQ is VERY debatable.
Reckless ignorance and the spreading of thereof begs for insults.
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
Gf is a component of FSIQ composite and so is Gsm.
Stop.
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That is irrelevant to the fact that half of the time the variability in scores in one test is irrelevant to the other.
The fact that researchers consider it a high correlation and love it is irrelevant to the fact above.
Oh, and researchers on intelligence tests obtain correlations of .8-.9 all the time, just read the reliability and validity chapters of an IQ manual, not that it is relevant to the fact stated above anyway.
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Okay, I'll give you that. I hadn't read that article. I still need to see some more research to be fully convinced (as even that article said it was a long standing belief that IQ doesn't change). But I will concede to you for the time being.