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GRE分数不理想申请拿不出手怎么办?5个方法不用刷分也能顺利拿OFFER?下面小编就和大家分享GRE分数不理想怎么办,希望能够帮助到大家,快来一起学习吧。

GRE分数不理想怎么办

1. 用GPA成绩来补足

一般来说,在出国留学提交申请时,考生的GRE成绩和平均学分绩点GPA(Grade Point Average)会被统一看成academic index也就是学术指数,通称AI。每一位申请者的AI都是申请表格中比较重要的组成部分。AI方面的数据自然是越高越好,而如果你的GRE成绩不理想,那么一份足够优秀的GPA成绩可能会为你弥补这个缺点。所以如果你的GRE分数比较低,自己又没有时间或者不想再刷分,那么尽可能提升一下GPA会是个很好的方法,具体如何提升大家可以在课程选择、课堂活动和些额外学术研究等方面想办法。总而言之,如果考生能够用足够好的GPA来冲淡GRE低分带来的负面评价,那么就不会给申请带来影响。

2. 参加专业能力考试

和上面这个方式比较相似,GRE成绩一定程度上代表了考生的学术能力,如果考生担心GRE分数太低会影响自己在专业能力方面受到的评价,那么通过参加专业能力考试的方式来证明自己的学术能力就是很好的补偿手段了。比如GRE考试本身有一个专业则是GRE subject test。这个考试包含了8大专业分类,其成绩对于证明考生的学术能力和专业能力是很有帮助的。大家如果GRE分数不佳,但有一份专业对口且比较理想的GRE sbject test分数,那么在申请中就不用太担心GRE低分了。

3. 强有力的推荐信

推荐信也是留学申请中不可或缺的重要环节,申请者给出的推荐信如果是来自业内比较知名学术水平受到广泛认可的教授或者专业人士,那么其说服力也是相当高的。特别是推荐信内容中如果有明确对你的学术能力给予肯定,那么一份不太理想的GRE分数对申请学校专业来说其实也并非不可接受。当然,想要获得此类推荐信还是比较有难度的,所以这个方法的适用面可能不是很广,但无论如此也是个比较有效的抹平GRE低分影响的方法,所以大家可以结合自身实际情况决定是否使用。

4. 通过课外活动来证明能力

这个方法是从考生的Extracurricular也就是课外活动部分来弥补GRE低分缺点的。一般来说比较能够得到学校认可,可以证明自身学术能力的课外活动有参加各类专业对口的国际竞赛、参与一些专业的项目研究、学术俱乐部或是到权威学术机构进行过实习。这些活动经历都可以一定程度上体现考生的学术能力,也是不错的申请加分项。

5. GRE成绩拆分申请

最后这种方法是在GRE分数本身做文章。GRE考试成绩可以用来申请的学校专业很广,分数适用性比较高。而不同的学校专业对于GRE成绩的具体要求其实也是有比较明显的差异的,许多学校更关注的不是GRE总分而是语文、数学甚至作文的单科成绩。因此考生完全可以扬长避短,在单科成绩上面做做文章。比如,你申请的是文学类(liberal arts)类专业,而GRE分数中也是语文成绩更好,那么你完全可以把GRE语文VERBAL部分的分数更加凸显出来,学校对于你GRE数学分数略低其实并不会太过在意;而如果考生申请的是STEM,也就是科学(Science),技术(Technology),工程(Engineering),数学(Mathematics)等专业,那么突出一下自己的GRE数学QUANT分数其实也能让偏低的语文VERBAL分数变得不那么要紧。总而言之,根据不同学校的具体要求和专业偏向性,大家也可以顺利避开GRE分数偏低这个影响申请的不利因素。

通过以上方法,小编相信大家即使GRE分数不算太高甚至略低于学校要求的平均分数线,想要成功通过申请拿到OFFER也并非不可能。当然,这些方法都是为GRE分数低又没有时间精力刷分的同学准备的应急手段,绝不是常规操作。大家如果想让申请变得更加顺利,那么认真备考提升GRE分数才是更为稳妥的做法。

GRE阅读:文章中词汇的考察形式

首先,新GRE阅读中出现了词汇题,即直接问你某个单词是什么意思

我们在看一道样题中公布的阅读题对于词汇是如何考查的:

Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following reading passage.

Scholarship on political newspapers and their editors is dominated by the view that as the United States grew, the increasing influence of the press led, ultimately, to the neutral reporting from which we benefit today. Pasley considers this view oversimplified, because neutrality was not a goal of early national newspaper editing, even when editors disingenuously stated that they aimed to tell all sides of a story. Rather, the intensely partisan ideolies represented in newspapers of the early republic led to a clear demarcation between traditional and republican values. The editors responsible for the papers' content ―especially those with republican agendas ―began to see themselves as central figures in the development of political consciousness in the United States.

10. In the context in which it appears, "disingenuously" most nearly means

A. insincerely

B. guilelessly

C. obliquely

D. resolutely

E. pertinaciously

如果当年,我们总结的天真纯朴类的单词把握的比较好,如下:

天真纯朴的

ingenuous=guileless=naive=simple=artless=unsophisticated

那么这道题,对于我们的同学来说就完全是送分题,对于GRE阅读能力整体偏弱的中国学生来说,这样的题目必须拿下。而拿下这些题目的最好手段,无疑就是按照我们在老GRE词汇班同样的强度来把握词汇。

更为重要的是,从新老GRE的官方备考指导来看,GRE阅读考察共有13项能力,首当其冲的就是“understanding the meaning of individual words.” 显然,词汇量,是阅读理解的基础。经过研究新GRE的官方备考指导中的阅读文章可以得出结论,新GRE阅读中的词汇难度有了明显的上升,这种上升是由于老GRE中的类反单词进入文章和题目引起的。以下例子中可以反映出该结论。

在新GRE的备考指导阅读中,有一篇2句话的文章。

“a person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham.”

若熟悉老GRE类反,马上可以联想到这些题:

类比:intercessor: mediate= translator: interpret

consensus: factionalism=expedition:foot-dragging

反义:faction <> unity

factional <> ecumenical

factious <> cooperative

debunk <> perpetuate to sham

sham <> genuine

同时我们注意到,下划线的词汇在阅读黄皮书中没有出现过。

另外有一篇文章

“Was Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847) a great composer? On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recnized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohn’s enduring popularity has often been at odds—sometimes quite sharply—with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgement of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor master…working on a small scale of emotion and texture.”

同样,老GRE中考到下划加粗词汇的类比反义题:

类比:prodigy: person= miracle: occurrence

反义:preternatural <> ordinary/prosaic

GRE阅读文章:主体结构

1. 结论-解释型(也叫论点-解释型)

首先是“结论-解释型”文章。这类文章在开始有一个判断句,一般是文章的结论,也是文章的主题。这个判断句的谓语部分通常包含系动词(is, remain, prove, turn out, appear等)或情态动词(can, may, should, must等),而且含有表示态度的词汇(如形容词等)。例如,

Because of its accuracy in outlining the Earth's subsurface, the seismic-reflection method remains the most important tool in the search for petroleum reserves. In field practice, a subsurface is mapped by arranging a series of wave-train sources, such as small dynamite explosions, in a grid pattern…

文章首句指出:“由于‘地震反射法’(sr)在勾划地球的地下层面这方面的准确性,该方法一直是探寻石油储备的最重要的工具。”这是一个判断句,为结论。其中remains为系动词,而most important为态度词,表示作者对“地震反射法”持非常正面的评价。后文应解释“地震反射法”的具体过程。 第二句话对解释进行总的说明:“在实地作业中,通过将一系列波列源,诸如小规模炸药爆炸,排列成一个网格模式,从而将地下层面标绘出来。”接下来是“地震反射法”的详细过程。

2. 新老观点对比型

GRE阅读文章的第二种常见结构是“新老观点对比型”。 这类文章在开始提出老观点,然后提出新观点并进行论述。通常新观点是文章的主题。老观点出现的标志词有:

1. 传统观点: has been, traditionally, until recently等

2. 大众观点:frequently, widely, many等

新观点出现的标志词有:however, recently, now等。

例如,

Traditionally, pollination by wind has been viewed as a reproductive process marked by random events in which the vagaries of the wind are compensated for by the generation of vast quantities of pollen, so that the ultimate production of new seeds is assured at the expense of producing much more pollen than is actually used.

However, a number of features that are characteristic of wind-pollinated plants reduce pollen waste…

文章首句指出:“传统上,风媒授粉过程一直被视为是一个以随机事件为标志的繁殖过程,其中风的不确定性通过产生大量花粉而得以补偿,因此,新种子的最终繁殖得以保证,而此举的代价是所需产生的花粉要远远超过实际的使用量。”由第一个词traditionally可知文章首句为老观点(由于风的不确定性,风媒植物要产生大量花粉补偿),那么本文的结构是“新老观点对比型”。

第二段首句出现了GRE阅读中的标志性转折词however,说明这句话就是新观点:“但是,风媒植物所独有的一系列特征可减少花粉浪费。”这说明风媒植物除了可以产生大量花粉加以补偿的消极策略之外,还可以通过一些积极机制减少花粉损失,不一定需要产生大量花粉。

3. 现象解释型(包含问题-解决方案型)

GRE阅读文章的第三种常见结构是“现象解释型”。文章开始提出一个现象,然后解释现象。解释是主题。有多个解释时,作者一般对前面的解释持负面评价,对最后的解释持正面评价。提出现象时的标志词有:phenomenon, fact; problem, difficulty, puzzle, question等。例如,

What causes a helix in nature to appear with either a dextral ("right-handed,"or clockwise) twist or a sinistral ("left-handed," or counterclockwise') twist is one of the most intriguing puzzles in the science of form…What mechanisms, control handedness and keep left-handedness rare?

It would seem unlikely that evolution should discriminate against sinistral snails if sinistral and dextral snails are exact mirror images, for any disadvantage that a sinistral twist in itself could confer on its possessor is almost inconceivable. But left- and right-handed snails are not actually true mirror images of one another…

But this evolutionary mechanism combining dissymmetry, anatomy, and chance does not provide an adequate explanation of why right-handedness should have become predominant…

Here, the evolutionary theory must defer to a theory based on an explicit developmental mechanism that can favor either right- or left-handedness…Thus, the path to a solution to the puzzle of handedness in all snails appears to be as twisted as the helix itself。

是什么样的原因致使自然界中的螺旋体呈现出右旋(“右向旋转的”,或顺时针的)或左旋(“左向旋转的,”或反时针的)?这是形态科学中一个最引人入胜的不解之谜....。。究竟是一些什么样的机制控制着旋转方向,并使左旋的比例为数稀少呢??

假如左旋和右旋蜗牛呈完全一致的镜像对称的话,那么进化对左旋蜗牛不利,这近乎不太可能。几乎无法想象左旋本身会给左旋者带来任何不利之处。然而,左旋与右旋蜗牛彼此间实际上并不呈真正的镜像对称....

但是,这种结合不对称、解剖学和偶然性的进化论机制并未提供一种充分的解释,以说明蜗牛的右旋何以会成为主要的旋向....

于是,进化论必须让位于支持右旋或左旋的明确的发育机制为基础的理论....。。因此,解决所有蜗牛身上旋向之谜的道路似乎与这一螺旋体本身一样曲折复杂。

上文在第一段最后提出一个问题:“究竟是一些什么样的机制控制着旋转方向,并使左旋的比例为数稀少呢??”这个问题就是一个现象:螺旋体中左旋的比例少。有问题就有解答,有现象就有解释。第二段从进化论的角度解释这一现象。但是,GRE阅读文章中一般对进化论的解释持负面评价,所以需要寻找新的解释。第三段否定了进化论的解释。在末段,作者以发育机制(developmental mechanism)解释“为何左旋少、右旋多”。

把握了文章的三种主体结构以后,做文章后的许多题时易如反掌。以上述的“结论——解释型”文章为例,如果熟悉文章的主体结构,下面两道题就很容易找到正确答案。

1. The passage is primarily concerned with

(A) describing an important technique

(B) discussing a new method

(C) investigating a controversial procedure

(D) announcing a significant discovery

(E) promoting a novel application

正确答案对应文章首句的主题句。因此(A)为正确答案。

2. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?

(A) A method is criticized, and an alternative is suggested

(B) An illustration is examined, and some errors are exposed

(C) An assertion is made, and a procedure is outlined

(D) A series of examples is presented, and a conclusion is drawn

(E) A hypothesis is advanced, and supporting evidence is supplied

本文的结构是“结论—解释型”,因此(C)为正确答案。


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