My GRE At-Home Experience | Thoughts, Tips, & What I Would Change
On Sept. 26, 2020 I took the GRE from home. I scored 157V, 146Q, 5.0 AWA. The goal of this video is not to give you actual tips or tools to use on the exam, it's merely to help you avoid the mistakes I made while preparing and steer you in the right direction. Here are the things I would change about how I prepared for the exam, along with what the process of taking it from home (rather than a test center) was like. As I mentioned in the video, gregmat.com seems to be the best investment you can make to prepare for the exam in my opinion. Definitely give it a shot.
All opinions expressed are my own.
About Me
-Name: Hailey Dollar (yes, that's my real last name)
-Age: 24
-CC: West Valley College, A.A. in Liberal Arts
-Undergrad: UCLA, B.A. in Applied Linguistics
Career goal: Speech Language Pathologist
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The KZread Channel I referred to is Greg Mat
Love the transparency and just how honest you are about your thoughts!
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
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thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing! I watched all the ads :)
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
Thank u so much for sharing...and you've got an amazing awa score
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
You promote Greg Mat, you get my like!
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
2 жыл бұрын
He's the best!
Loveeee how the hoops look on you!!!
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
3 жыл бұрын
thank you, Karla :)
Hello, thanks for the videos. Are Headsets allowed during the GRE test at home? I mean in a situation where your computer does not have an inbuilt microphone.
Princeton review is good! I’m taking the gre saturday ahhhh!
@walkerboy180
3 жыл бұрын
how did it go?
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
3 жыл бұрын
I hope everything went well for you!
@namanmehta3096
2 жыл бұрын
How was your GRE ?
I’m taking mine late November and I’m scared lmao but definitely gonna look into the Greg guy you mentioned Thanks for sharing your experience
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
2 жыл бұрын
I wish you the best of luck!
Whose youtube channel were you refering to? Could you tag him in the comments ?
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
3 жыл бұрын
The channel is called Greg Mat.
Please share the link of that person which you have mentioned in your video.
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
2 жыл бұрын
It's Greg Mat, he's the first one that pops up when you look for it.
And it’s interesting you did worse on the real exam, my friend told me she got the opposite better on all the practice tests!
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
3 жыл бұрын
everyone performs differently!
Who are you recommending? Mat who?
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
2 жыл бұрын
Greg Mat, he should be the first one that comes up when search for it on KZread
One thing that I don't get is that how do people who have English as second or third language score well. Let me take my example. When I was applying for PhD, I prepared for the verbal part for like 15 to 20 days and two hours everyday. But to my surprise, my score was 162 in verbal. I have an engineering background from a university in India. In engineering, the content is of much more importance than the language, so my professors also never cared about getting creative with the language. Besides, I also rarely spoke in English with my friends and classmates at my university or even during schooling. I used to talk with professors in English and give presentations for course projects, whenever necessary. I never read any fictional and non-fictional books. Even my friends who never had proficiency in English were getting much higher GRE scores than me. It is very confusing for me to understand what goes right with people from non-American and non-English backgrounds. One explanation that comes to my mind is that I and my friends always watched American movies instead of Bollywood and regional language movies. Do you think movies have a potential to bring that change in a person's performance? You have studied in a multicultural atmosphere at UCLA, your perspective can provide me better insights.
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Shivam, I highly doubt that watching American movies would improve your score on the exam. Even as a native speaker, the verbal section was difficult for me, and American movies definitely don't use the level of language that you see on the exam. When it comes to standardized exams it's more about knowing how to take the exam than the content itself, though that is undoubtedly a factor. I would venture that your high-scoring friends just studied a lot. I'm sure you did as well considering that 162 is just 8 points shy of a perfect score.
@TrickySolver
3 жыл бұрын
If you scored the GRE verbal 162 in 15-20 days with no strong background in reading skills (50% of the questions test reading skills) then you are the next Albert Einstein
@planet2
3 жыл бұрын
@@TrickySolver Non-native speakers are usually trained well in using formal words if they were educated in a few subjects using English as a medium. On the other hand, we have no clue of the slang, phrases and other informal ways of speech used in the US or UK. Therefore we are more likely to do well in exams but have difficulties communicating verbally with native speakers.
you're a good narrator.
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
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thanks for watching!
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
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@@georgeboahene3254 I don't do this but check out Greg Mat on KZread. That's how I prepared for the GRE
whats the pattern of exam?
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
2 жыл бұрын
Hi, you can find this information on ETS.org
Who did you say his name was?
@HaileyDollarGoesToCollege
2 жыл бұрын
Greg Mat