Re-Take Physics Gre? How to improve guessing?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:31 pm
Hey Everyone,
I apologize for making soo many threads! However, I think I am obsessing over the pgres a bit too much. I am already taking a year off to improve my exam scores and all I got was a 700 52%. ( last year I had 42%)
I am actually considering taking another year off just to do it all over again. Do you think it's worth it at this point?
I answered exactly 70 questions and I feel like it was graded like Form A 2008 exam where a raw score of 57 = 700. I could be wrong though, but I was confident with the questions I answered. I am guessing I made around 10-12 careless mistakes. If I am wrong about the scaling/grading than I made even more mistakes :/.
I definitely had time to look at the 30 questions I did not answer. The thing is, I noticed in the 5 practice exams that whenever I had three or two choices left ( one of which is the correct answer) I always guessed the wrong one! So I lost confident in guessing, so I didn't with the real one.
In fact most of my mistakes were due to guessing for practice exams and not so much for careless mistakes.
I feel like my score would have been higher if I did attempt guessing, but it also could have been MUCH lower.
Is it worth doing this all over again? No, I don't want to go to a Top 10 but I am interested in HEP-th. It's just ultra competitive everywhere :/.
I am strongly aware of which fields in the pgre I need to improve (Optics being the main one).
Thank you for any advice or suggestions.
I apologize for making soo many threads! However, I think I am obsessing over the pgres a bit too much. I am already taking a year off to improve my exam scores and all I got was a 700 52%. ( last year I had 42%)
I am actually considering taking another year off just to do it all over again. Do you think it's worth it at this point?
I answered exactly 70 questions and I feel like it was graded like Form A 2008 exam where a raw score of 57 = 700. I could be wrong though, but I was confident with the questions I answered. I am guessing I made around 10-12 careless mistakes. If I am wrong about the scaling/grading than I made even more mistakes :/.
I definitely had time to look at the 30 questions I did not answer. The thing is, I noticed in the 5 practice exams that whenever I had three or two choices left ( one of which is the correct answer) I always guessed the wrong one! So I lost confident in guessing, so I didn't with the real one.
In fact most of my mistakes were due to guessing for practice exams and not so much for careless mistakes.
I feel like my score would have been higher if I did attempt guessing, but it also could have been MUCH lower.
Is it worth doing this all over again? No, I don't want to go to a Top 10 but I am interested in HEP-th. It's just ultra competitive everywhere :/.
I am strongly aware of which fields in the pgre I need to improve (Optics being the main one).
Thank you for any advice or suggestions.