Helen, how wonderful that Lisa's
message got you to respond.
Everyone: This is one of the reasons
I'm sending these out to all of you. Different stimuli work for
different people.
Graduate tests: Yes, I have lots of
material on the graduate tests, and lots of it depends on fairly simple,
fairly inexpensive material. Buy one of the Barron's or other work
books in a massive book store, like Wordstar. Then practice taking
the tests, even without studying, while you're watching TV, or fussing at
your kids, or arguing with your spouse or live-in, or with your
parents,etc. In other words, make sure this isn't an ideal
study situation with peace and quiet and concentration.
- The
objective of this study is to
get used to the kind of conditions under which
you will take the test. There will be lots and lots (maybe
hundreds) of very nervous people taking the test with you. They
will scrape their chairs, shuffle their feet, chew gum (noisily, some of
them) , breathe noisily, sniffle, spill a coke they smuggled in,
whatever. But they will annoy you. You won't be alone, and it
won't be comfortingly quiet and non-distracting. That's the structural
context you're trying to recreate and get used to. Best way I know
to do that is to work in the midst of family and friends. Trust me,
they'll find ways to distract you. If you can answer those miserable
questions in the midst of that, you'll be OK on the test.
- The second thing is to remember
why you're taking the test: to mark
the answers they think are
right! Use a blank piece of paper, and mark the answer
to each question in one of the test sections. Then turn immediately
to the answers (NEVER BUY A TEST PREPARATION
BOOK THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE ANSWERS, AND THE EXPLANATION FOR WHY THOSE ARE
THE CORRECT ANSWERS, AND PREFERABLY WHY THE OTHER ANSWERS WERE JUDGED NOT
CORRECT.) Read carefully the answers to all the choices
(these are multiple choice tests, folks), AND figure out why they picked
the answer they did. Not whether you picked the answer that they
did, but why they picked the answer they did. They're the ones who
make up the test. You have to learn to figure out how
THEY
think! If you do
this over and over with as many test sections as you have time for, in
the midst of family and friend activities, you'll be OK on the test. The
reason I use a blank sheet of paper is so I can do the section over and
over without having the book itself marked up. One book should give
you plenty of material for all the practice you have time for!
Hope this helps!
love and peace, jeanne
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:28:04 EDT
Subject: Re: Special person
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Jeanne
I did read your Special Person email and of course I am encourage to take
time and send you a response. There is so much going on. I graduate
this
semester and I am planning to submit an application to the MFT Master
program. But I will have to wait a year because I missed the
deadline. I
intend on taking the GRE test. I took a mock test. I will
find out my score
on Friday. I do know I need about 12 more years of education to do
really
well on that test. I am open to any and all suggestions on how to
prep for
the real test. I know this test was design to eliminate the
other. I just
don't intend to be the other, this
time
Love &
Peace
Helen