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I took GRE without prep as a non-native speaker. Lets just say I severely underestimated it, and went on to do other things in life … the concept of these tests
by anon1253 9y ago
I took GRE without prep as a non-native speaker. Lets just say I severely underestimated it, and went on to do other things in life … the concept of these tests are quite foreign in Northern Europe, so I was not expecting it /at all/. If I wanted to ace it, it would've probably taken me weeks to prep properly (especially all the silly math things, that I mostly forgot about how to do fast enough without mistakes or stressing out). Never ended up submitting my application, even though I had several first author papers as an undergrad, I felt too defeated by it.
- lmm 9y agoI would expect the language to be the issue? As a European I took the GRE with zero prep and comfortably got an 800 on the numeric part and a 6.0 on the essay part (I felt I was consciously pandering with an American-style essay because that seemed to be what they wanted), but dropped a bit in the verbal part (640) which seemed to be just about knowing dictionary definitions for a lot of obscure words.