I have to take the GRE next week to apply for grad school in public policy, and I'm starting to freak out over the math portion.
So I've always been really, really good at the verbal portion of standardized tests. I made a 36 on English on the ACT and a 790 on verbal in the SAT. I've been taking GRE practice tests through the Princeton Review, and I've been making in the high 700s, around 770, on the verbal, and fives and sixes in the writing comp. I mean, I've been a professional writer for nearly seven years. That's all fine.
But I have been freaking bombing the math section, making around a 530. I've been practicing and reviewing, and I'm not bad at math, persay...okay, I am kind of bad at math. It's just not intuitive to me the way language is. I can learn a rule and practice it, but still mess it up on a problem.
I don't have test taking anxiety -- I actually tend to perform better on the real test than on practice. But I am really worried that I just will not be able to pull a decent math score.
The program average is a 589 on verbal and a 662 on quant. I don't know if my high verbal score will make them forgive the low math score. And they actually admit about half of the applicants, and everything else on my resume is good -- decent GPA, great work experience that ties into the program, good recommendations. But I would be seriously pissed off if I didn't get into grad school because I suck at geometry.
I'm going to spend the week doing tons of drill problems, and just work hard on it, but I just don't know how much I'm going to be able to pull it up.
Someone tell me it will all be okay? It will, right? Right?
So I've always been really, really good at the verbal portion of standardized tests. I made a 36 on English on the ACT and a 790 on verbal in the SAT. I've been taking GRE practice tests through the Princeton Review, and I've been making in the high 700s, around 770, on the verbal, and fives and sixes in the writing comp. I mean, I've been a professional writer for nearly seven years. That's all fine.
But I have been freaking bombing the math section, making around a 530. I've been practicing and reviewing, and I'm not bad at math, persay...okay, I am kind of bad at math. It's just not intuitive to me the way language is. I can learn a rule and practice it, but still mess it up on a problem.
I don't have test taking anxiety -- I actually tend to perform better on the real test than on practice. But I am really worried that I just will not be able to pull a decent math score.
The program average is a 589 on verbal and a 662 on quant. I don't know if my high verbal score will make them forgive the low math score. And they actually admit about half of the applicants, and everything else on my resume is good -- decent GPA, great work experience that ties into the program, good recommendations. But I would be seriously pissed off if I didn't get into grad school because I suck at geometry.
I'm going to spend the week doing tons of drill problems, and just work hard on it, but I just don't know how much I'm going to be able to pull it up.
Someone tell me it will all be okay? It will, right? Right?
