Saturday, October 25, 2008

The GREs

Matt has been preparing now for a few months to take the GREs. From what everyone
who has taken this test says, it is a complete nightmare! It is a four hour long
test, kinda like the SATs, that is used in your grad school acceptance. The program
Matt is hoping to get into requires an above average score as a requirment for
acceptance, Yikes! Matt has prepared all that he can, which really is not much
unless you want to memorize the 50,000 words on the "most commonly used words
list". One of our friends studied and knew about 10,000 of those words before he
took the test and NOT ONE of them ended up being on the test! So, Matt has mostly
studied technique for answering surtain types of questions and such. Anyway, today
is the big day. He left at 7am this morning and will be testing from 8am to noon.
Say a prayer from him if you would, we'd appreciate all the prayers we can get! I
think I'm as nervous as he is!