Pre-test Panic

Thanks for the shout-out, Mary.

I took another practice test last night and my math score shot up--that's what happens when you live with an engineer who can teach you about coordinates and the pythagorean theorum (I probably spelled that wrong, huh.) My verbal score crept up a measly 40 points, but I'm still pretty confident. I wish there were simple little formulas to memorize in order to know more words, but it just doesn't work like that.

Here's where the panic comes in. I was reviewing the website to make sure I bring the right stuff, and it said if your id doesn't match the name you signed up with exactly, then you won't be admitted to the test. Well, my ID has my middle initial on it, and I didn't use my middle initial when I registerd. Hopefully that doesn't turn into a $130 mistake.

Cross your fingers for me. Hopefully my next post will be about how I rocked the GRE and not about how they kicked me out for forgetting my middle name.

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Update: I rocked it. And no mention of my absent middle initial.

You know, these computer based tests are a little freaky. For those of you who haven't taken the GRE lately, the questions get harder every time you get one right. Towards the end of the math section, I was getting questions that could have passed for some sort of extra terrestrial language, and I couldn't tell if I was becoming delusional or if that was a good sign. It was a good sign.

Thank God it's over, though.

Now it's time to start grading papers...which I haven't touched for about 3 weeks.