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I thought I had gotten out of it, but no dice. What is the best way to prepare? I will be working on a Masters in American History (I actually just finished my first semester). From what I can tell I will do fine except for math. What if I bomb the math part

I found the best way to prepare was to take practice tests over and over. You could find out if the Math score is important for your degree. In my case the math score was not as important, which meant I could focus on the other sections more Romanos 8:3737 Sin embargo, en todo esto somos más que vencedores por medio de aquel que nos amó.A Church Without Walls, A Place for All PeopleEl Nuevo Mana

I took the GRE maybe 10 years ago, along with the GMAT. They two tests were similar.I'd recommend getting one of those GRE study books. I think Barron's had a good book. Maybe that was for SAT. Get one of those and take the sample tests. There may even be a GRE sample test online you could take. Get a feel for the questions.As far as math goes, historians don't do any stats on data do they? Ask at a university and see if they just disregard the math. Ace the English part and the writing, though. The writing section asks a question. Learn to write a great two or three-point essay. I think it was GRE, maybe GMAT, but I was asked to answer a question of whether I agreed with something along the lines of 'the end justifies the means.'Of course, I used Adolph Hilter as an example and disagreed with the idea.I think I ran out of time and made a two point essay and went back and removed the third point from the intro. Think of three points for whatever you want to argue, mention them in the first paragraph. Write a paragraph or two about each point, and summarize the three points in the end. Handle usage, grammar, etc. and make logical points and you can do well. I got the highest score, five or six or whatever, on writing on both the GMAT and GRE. I was middle of the road on math on both, and really high on verbal

The big question is, why are you getting a masters in history? Do you have lots of money and are doing this for enrichment, or do you work in some kind of job where having a masters will make you more money. I suspect having a masters in American history doesn't open up a lot of jobs. But if you were teaching school, having any masters might actually lead to an increased salary. Maybe you could teach at a community college, maybe. That would be hard to get into, I'd imagine, and it could just be adjunct work rather than full time with a masters. It's hard to teach at the college level in a lot of fields without a PhD. I'd have a clear idea of how the degree would translate into supporting my family well, or direction from God, before getting an advanced degree. My masters and PhD are in business, so that influences my thinking on getting degrees (ROIs and NPVs and such), but a Masters in American History sounds like it might be a negative Negative Present Value proposition. That means roughly that you could get better value for your money than this investment. But I dont' know. You may have a good career path worked out that involves having this degree.Also, I'd advise against getting one of those expensive online degrees that aren't recognized by brick and morter schools or much of industry.Btw, if you plan to get a PhD, it may be better just to jump right into a PhD program from undergrad in some cases without burning two years on a masters

I took GRE 30 years ago.Not sure they had books to study from - I scored something like 1075 - not sure what the scale is nowadays.Of course I had a math degree - so the math was cake for me - and I scored at the highest percentile in that - and hung on in the other areas

Looks like I might be off the hook after all. The chairmen of the History Dept is going to bat for me

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I got something similar. I think it was 96th on one test and 98 or 99 on the other on verbal, 6 out of 6 on writing, but quantitative was below 50% on the GMAT, somewhere in the 40's.I comforted myself by telling myself that people applying to graduate business programs tend to be better at math than the average person.Americans don't like to be average. Survey a room full of Americans if they are above average drivers, and most of them will answer that they are. Mathematically that doesn't make much sense, not unless a very few drivers are so exceptionally bad they mess up the data, but I don't think they measure it like that

It appears I might yet be off the hook. I received an encouraging email from the department chairmen. It would be wonderful if they grant me a waiver

Most all degree mills will give you what you want for a price. SAGU is not a degree mill