fairheart:

Were you expecting someone to ask for your email first?
When next anybody here asked for study materials, do your email address, and don't wait until someone ask for it.
Drop your email and I will send you GRE materials; you can check Google or Google PlayStore to download IELTS app for intensive studies.

Hi, please could you send me GRE and TOEFL study materials.
Email is oloyesimisola@gmail.com
Thank you.

Lifeisforliving:


We are at the point where we have to face reality. The Embassy is still closed and will be until futher notice. So accept any request to defer your admission to Spring 2021, beyond or an online option. If I were you I will wait till August b4 taking a decision �

We'd know the most like option by 10 a.m tomorrow.

Seen this?

Why would they want to discuss F-1 VISA, if there's no modicum of possibility that interviews would resume soon?

Lifeisforliving:


We are at the point where we have to face reality. The Embassy is still closed and will be until futher notice. So accept any request to defer your admission to Spring 2021, beyond or an online option. If I were you I will wait till August b4 taking a decision �

August might be too late to defer.

My department (MACIS @ Virginia tech) gave me July 6th as deadline to defer to spring.

Mosminic:

I got admitted there but had to choose another school.

Why?
And do they give funding to graduate for Accounting courses for Master?

Sanguine1:

I need GRE, GMAT and TOEFEL material
babatundesulaimon99@gmail.com

Please I am in need of this also Thank you this is my email ayomikunayeyemi@gmail.com

Meekun:

Why?
And do they give funding to graduate for Accounting courses for Master?

Ranking compared to the school I chose.
About funding for Accounting courses, the department's website should have that info.

Friedpotato:
you don't necessarily have to tag him lazy.

I never tagged anyone. I said youths, not just one person saying it.

henrye27:
Menh... dude @stanford guy... you’re bad ooo. You’re the only person I have seen with a GRE score higher than mine. I’m not saying there are no other person with a high score. But I duff my capito. My GRE is 314. Q= 159, V= 155, AWA= 4.0. Ielts =Listening 9.0, writing 6.0�, Reading 6.0, Speaking 7.0. Total band score : 7.0. I got an admission with a scholarship offer of up to $10k which automatically Qualify me for a instate tuition. And other scholarship awaits me upon arrival and Also a TA job. I can’t imagine paying $76k per year For tuition. I’m glad I have to just pay less than $25k. Emergency Interview already booked. Waiting for an approved date and time for my interview. I pray the VO act right.

Congrats. This is good. Your GRE score is nice. The < $25K, you will comfortably cover that, even with scholarship if you look well. Congrats again. You guys are doing well.

Meanwhile, you are right about the @stanford dude. But in general, engineering and medical guys will smash GRE if they catch it. The high scores come from them. Nonetheless, I have noticed that if any averagely intelligent person prepares fire, like 15 hours per day for like 3 months, they too will smash the GRE.

I am really happy to see you guys are upping the game. I usually shame when her them say our average is 140+/140+. I hate that.

iwriterng:


Lol � you’ve not seen lots of profile then �

I think he is right. If you randomly select a Nigerian, or African (apart from Ethiopia and South Africa and the North Africans), the probability that he will score 140+/140+ is at least 50%. Go look ETS statistics. Even English that is supposed to be our near native language, somehow our verbal and AWA scores are lower on average than those of France and German, countries that don't have any English language history.

So, again, I am happy to see people are getting close to and even over 160. I am just hoping our average changes soon as more people blast this vermin test.

Tulacious123:
Good afternoon all.Please I need GRE and TOFLE materials to study pending when I register for the exam. kejuempower@gmail.com . Thanks in anticipation to your positive response.

Search for an email connected to me and send me an email, not nairaland inbox oo. I will link you to people that can provide TOEFL material.

GRE, you can get a lot of that here.

Make sure you prepare hard and long for the GRE, so that you can master-blast it. We want all Nigerians taking this test to bring us pride oo, aim 170/170/6

iWise:


There is nothing unusual about a 320+ GRE score for a Nigerian.

It is unusual (less so for engineering and medical guys/girls, but more unusual for others). I believe you smart enough, so I will be objective with you.


First, go through this whole thread. Tell us how many Nigerians have 320+ in GRE. If you say there is nothing unusual, then your answer should be around 10% or more.

Go and look at ETS GRE analysis, historical analysis of GRE scores by country. The mean and standard deviation will tell you something. Compare that to China and other countries, then throw away pride and come back here to report to those who seem to be ignorant of this.

To reiterate, based on past scores, it is unusual to see a Nigerian score 320+. Yes, we always want to claim we sabi, but this is a sad part that we need to acknowledge and improve on. By Nigerian, I mean Nigerian who did primary, secondary and university in Nigeria. I don't mean outside of Nigeria as I know several who did undergrad education in the US and have no problem smashing GRE.

Time2win:


Correct! only lazy nigerian youths say that

You just a joke. Some of you are just I don't know what to say.

You guys don't know what is happening. Keep remaining ignorant, calling someone you have no idea about a lazy Nigerian youth.

Go look the ETS country comparison let's see who is the lazy youth here

Friedpotato:
I've seen alot of strong profiles accepted every where o, but it's mostly for undergraduates. Person go apply go all the Ivy leagues get full rides to all of them.

Please we are not talking undergraduate here. GRE is for MS/PhD. SAT is for undergraduates - AB/BS/BSc.

Or what are you particularly saying?

I really dunno what the hell he was trying to communicate

Admitwithschola:


Please we are not talking undergraduate here. GRE is for MS/PhD. SAT is for undergraduates - AB/BS/BSc.

Or what are you particularly saying?

LagosismyHome:


Congrats on your offersssss

Thank you

geooxygen:



Bro, can you pls suggest the best materials I can use for prep, targeting a score 320+ will be writing GRE by October.

The Manhattan books for quantitative
Magoosh books for verbal

Then use the official books to see how well prepared you are. Also, watch as many videos from 'gregmat' as you can on YouTube. You'll learn a few tips and tricks.

Admitwithschola:


It is unusual (less so for engineering and medical guys/girls, but more unusual for others). I believe you smart enough, so I will be objective with you.


First, go through this whole thread. Tell us how many Nigerians have 320+ in GRE. If you say there is nothing unusual, then your answer should be around 10% or more.

Go and look at ETS GRE analysis, historical analysis of GRE scores by country. The mean and standard deviation will tell you something. Compare that to China and other countries, then throw away pride and come back here to report to those who seem to be ignorant of this.

To reiterate, based on past scores, it is unusual to see a Nigerian score 320+. Yes, we always want to claim we sabi, but this is a sad part that we need to acknowledge and improve on. By Nigerian, I mean Nigerian who did primary, secondary and university in Nigeria. I don't mean outside of Nigeria as I know several who did undergrad education in the US and have no problem smashing GRE.

You're making the unsubstantiated claim that the majority of Nigerians who write the GRE are members of nairaland and also report their scores on nairaland.

Modification: I just went through the report for 2014. If it's anything to go by, scoring 320+ is rather unusual for all countries whose citizens wrote the GRE so by implication unusual for Nigeria. I concede you have a point. I think its also fair to state that your point is rather trivial given that all countries represented in the report had an average score less than 320.

Admitwithschola:


Search for an email connected to me and send me an email, not nairaland inbox oo. I will link you to people that can provide TOEFL material.

GRE, you can get a lot of that here.

Make sure you prepare hard and long for the GRE, so that you can master-blast it. We want all Nigerians taking this test to bring us pride oo, aim 170/170/6

Thanks dear. kejuempower@gmail.com

greenskittles:

The Manhattan books for quantitative
Magoosh books for verbal

Then use the official books to see how well prepared you are. Also, watch as many videos from 'gregmat' as you can on YouTube. You'll learn a few tips and tricks.

Thanks brodaly.

Admitwithschola:


It is unusual (less so for engineering and medical guys/girls, but more unusual for others). I believe you smart enough, so I will be objective with you.


First, go through this whole thread. Tell us how many Nigerians have 320+ in GRE. If you say there is nothing unusual, then your answer should be around 10% or more.

Go and look at ETS GRE analysis, historical analysis of GRE scores by country. The mean and standard deviation will tell you something. Compare that to China and other countries, then throw away pride and come back here to report to those who seem to be ignorant of this.

To reiterate, based on past scores, it is unusual to see a Nigerian score 320+. Yes, we always want to claim we sabi, but this is a sad part that we need to acknowledge and improve on. By Nigerian, I mean Nigerian who did primary, secondary and university in Nigeria. I don't mean outside of Nigeria as I know several who did undergrad education in the US and have no problem smashing GRE.

320+ isn't unusual. It depends on your field and schools you're targeting. All my 4 friends that we wrote last year scored 320+. If you want to apply to a 2nd tier engineering school (Georgia tech, UIUC, Purdue etc), you need at least 320 to be in safe zone.

[quote author=Friedpotato post=91167971]

We'd know the most like option by 10 a.m tomorrow.

Seen this?

Why would they want to discuss F-1 VISA, if there's no modicum of possibility that interviews would resume soon?[/quote

Being optimistic isn’t bad. By tomorrow we will know better�

Admitwithschola:


Search for an email connected to me and send me an email, not nairaland inbox oo. I will link you to people that can provide TOEFL material.

GRE, you can get a lot of that here.

Make sure you prepare hard and long for the GRE, so that you can master-blast it. We want all Nigerians taking this test to bring us pride oo, aim 170/170/6

jubrilmidas@gmail.com

fairheart:

Were you expecting someone to ask for your email first?
When next anybody here asked for study materials, do your email address, and don't wait until someone ask for it.
Drop your email and I will send you GRE materials; you can check Google or Google PlayStore to download IELTS app for intensive studies.

Hello, I will really appreciate if you can send me the GRE study materials.
Here is my mail
minat4care@gmail.com

Gracias.

Admitwithschola:


Please we are not talking undergraduate here. GRE is for MS/PhD. SAT is for undergraduates - AB/BS/BSc.

Or what are you particularly saying?

I know what SAT and GRE is.

You've been making unnecessary generalized conclusions from the very little data you can access. A lot of Nigerians score 320+ they just don't come on nairaland to shout it.

Also how are you sure that no one gets into all the Ivy leagues? If it happens for undergraduates, definitely it happens for graduates. I don't know how you got to know about the application of the whole kit and caboodle of persons applying for GRE that you said with CERTAINTY that know one gets into all.

Please stop making hasty generalizations from limited data.

Funaki:


320+ isn't unusual. It depends on your field and schools you're targeting. All my 4 friends that we wrote last year scored 320+. If you want to apply to a 2nd tier engineering school (Georgia tech, UIUC, Purdue etc), you need at least 320 to be in safe zone.

abi o.

By the way, did all your friends get full funding too?

Friedpotato:
abi o.

By the way, did all your friends get full funding too?

Only one didn't get. Another one didn't apply though.

Funaki:


320+ isn't unusual. It depends on your field and schools you're targeting. All my 4 friends that we wrote last year scored 320+. If you want to apply to a 2nd tier engineering school (Georgia tech, UIUC, Purdue etc), you need at least 320 to be in safe zone.

I'm not surprised by your account, which can be correct. As is clear from my previous posts, engineering boys and medical boys do relatively better on this test. If you read my previous epistles, that should be clear to you - so there won't be a need to repeat same point. Your friends fall into the elite group of Nigerians, but you understandably can't use them as a reflection of the state of GRE (and GMAT) in Africa (Nigeria in this case).

I think it's better to provide solid data than give anecdotal evidence (i.e. my friends got this, your friend got that). So, instead of relying on anecdotal evidence of 4 or even 10 people, maybe I will put the stats here for all to see.

https://www.prepscholar.com/gre/blog/average-gre-scores/
https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/snapshot_test_taker_data_2018.pdf

Do Ctrl+F + Nigeria, Ghana, etc, it's sad all round.

So, there is more evidence that, in general, 320+ is more unusual than otherwise. If you have a solid argument that shows counters this, I am happy to hear. Of course, averages do not tell all the story and if we control for fields, then the score may be much less unusual for engineering (and medical guys if they choose to do it) - as is clear from my previous posts. Still, we can only know this if we know how engineering boys/girls perform in aggregate.

And by the way, if you have friends who are writing in August and beyond, we are offering full GRE refund to anyone who scores 335+. This is our little way to try to encourage the few people that we can and hopefully take Nigeria's average GRE score from the current embarrassing level to something more respectable. So since all the people you know are scoring at these levels, maybe you can have them reach out to us with scores from August and beyond - http://baumtenpers.com/

So, to summarize, while it is possible that a score of 320+ is less unusual for an engineering (and medical) grad in Nigeria, the data from ETS shows that a score of 320+ in Nigeria is not a usual score. If anyone disagrees, please debate with real data, not anecdotal evidence. Note, I am not trying to knock down your 'hozu', I am just trying to create awareness and urge those taking the tests to really put in hours and do their best and blast high scores. The situation is even much worse for GMAT, but that's an issue for another day.

Friedpotato:
I know what SAT and GRE is.

You've been making unnecessary generalized conclusions from the very little data you can access. A lot of Nigerians score 320+ they just don't come on nairaland to shout it.

Also how are you sure that no one gets into all the Ivy leagues? If it happens for undergraduates, definitely it happens for graduates. I don't know how you got to know about the application of the whole kit and caboodle of persons applying for GRE that you said with CERTAINTY that know one gets into all.

Please stop making hasty generalizations from limited data.

I can't make generalizations - stop that. I'm not one of those that just open mouth and talk. If you want to believe what you believe, fine. Do that. But don't ever come and accuse me of generalizations because you don't even have an idea of anything about me other than what you see here.

If you read carefully, you should see from my writing that I kept saying ETS does the average analysis. Yes, averages skew things (median is more robust), but it nonetheless provides good information.

On average, Nigerians are generally doing badly on these tests (GMAT and GRE). This is why our average is where they are. Are some doing well, yes a few are doing well. But most are doing not so well, and certainly not at the 320+ level.

I am sad I have to be saying this, I don't want to knock off anyone's hustle, I want to help...But I must say it, because it's the data which ETS provides, and has nothing to do with my view.

So, stop accusing of generalizations, you know nix about me. Focus on the data and provide intelligent debates with data. Then we can both reach a reasoned conclusion.

Data reproduced here -

https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/snapshot_test_taker_data_2018.pdf

iWise:


You're making the unsubstantiated claim that the majority of Nigerians who write the GRE are members of nairaland and also report their scores on nairaland.

Modification: I just went through the report for 2014. If it's anything to go by, scoring 320+ is rather unusual for all countries whose citizens wrote the GRE so by implication unusual for Nigeria. I concede you have a point. I think its also fair to state that your point is rather trivial given that all countries represented in the report had an average score less than 320.

No need trivializing the point. Concede is concede. It is a FACT, and I'm happy you conceded. This is good for intellectual debate.

But I think you also have a VERY GOOD point. You also stated a FACT, which none of my points contradicts, that 320+ is an unusual score in the GRE test for all countries. However, this is likely MORE SO for Nigerians as we are farther from this mark than some other countries - Chinese for example.

Let's say the truth, this will save us when we know the problem and try to solve it. I am not here to knock down anybody, no need doing solidarity against someone opening the reality on ground. We are all here to encourage those still at the GRE level and help them be aware and do their best.

Admitwithschola:


I'm not surprised by your account, which can be correct. As is clear from my previous posts, engineering boys and medical boys do relatively better on this test. If you read my previous epistles, that should be clear to you - so there won't be a need to repeat same point. Your friends fall into the elite group of Nigerians, but you understandably can't use them as a reflection of the state of GRE (and GMAT) in Africa (Nigeria in this case).

I think it's better to provide solid data than give anecdotal evidence (i.e. my friends got this, your friend got that). So, instead of relying on anecdotal evidence of 4 or even 10 people, maybe I will put the stats here for all to see.

https://www.prepscholar.com/gre/blog/average-gre-scores/
https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/snapshot_test_taker_data_2018.pdf

Do Ctrl+F + Nigeria, Ghana, etc, it's sad all round.

So, there is more evidence that, in general, 320+ is more unusual than otherwise. If you have a solid argument that shows counters this, I am happy to hear. Of course, averages do not tell all the story and if we control for fields, then the score may be much less unusual for engineering (and medical guys if they choose to do it) - as is clear from my previous posts. Still, we can only know this if we know how engineering boys/girls perform in aggregate.

And by the way, if you have friends who are writing in August and beyond, we are offering full GRE refund to anyone who scores 330+, half refund to someone who scores 325+. This is our little way to try to encourage the few people that we can and hopefully take Nigeria's average GRE score from the current embarrassing level to something more respectable. So since all the people you know are scoring at these levels, maybe you can have them reach out to us with scores from August and beyond - http://baumtenpers.com/

So, to summarize, while it is possible that a score of 320+ is less unusual for an engineering (and medical) grad in Nigeria, the data from ETS shows that a score of 320+ in Nigeria is not a usual score. If anyone disagrees, please debate with real data, not anecdotal evidence. Note, I am not trying to knock down your 'hozu', I am just trying to create awareness and urge those taking the tests to really put in hours and do their best and blast high scores. The situation is even much worse for GMAT, but that's an issue for another day.

Wow, I'll share your GRE offer with my friends, this is a really nice thing for you to do. I hope someday I can be able to donate to this cause too.

greenskittles:


Wow, I'll share your GRE offer with my friends, this is a really nice thing for you to do. I hope someday I can be able to donate to this cause too.

Yes, not me, it's a group of Africans, which I belong.

To reiterate, 335+ for full refund

Effective for GRE taken in August and beyond.

This is our own small way of attempting to lift up Naija's average. It's currently somehow.

Admitwithschola:


Yes, not me, it's a group of Africans, which I belong.

To reiterate, 330+ for full refund

325+ for partial refund.

Effective for GRE taken in August and beyond.

This is our own small way of attempting to lift up Naija's average. It's currently somehow.

What of the SAT nkor