How to increase Your Vocabulary

A high-quality vocabulary can help students a lot. An extensive vocabulary can aid students in writing interesting, lucid essays, can help him converse better with friends, classmates and teachers.
A person who has a good command over language is bound to be popular among his peers. For these reasons, it is very important to develop one’s vocabulary. In this article, we will share some tips that will help students to build up a good vocabulary.
Students can do well in their class assignments, exams and interviews if they have the benefit of a well-developed vocabulary.

At the times of entrance exams and admissions to universities, students often need to take several language tests like IELTS, GRE, SAT or GMAT. Most of these tests check the vocabulary and English skills of the candidate among other things.
While IELTS focuses entirely on the English skills of the candidate, GRE and GMAT exams also test the English language skills of the student. For these reasons, it is extremely important to have a good vocabulary.

A student must put in a lot of efforts to boost his vocabulary. As a person who likes to read may already have a good vocabulary, entrance tests demand that the student’s language skills be much above normal. For this, the student must put in special efforts and read extensively on different subjects.
Remember one thing that vocabulary cannot be improved in a day. It takes a lot of time and effort to build up your vocabulary.

A student who desires to raise his vocabulary must get in the habit of reading at least two newspapers daily. He must pay attention to how the same words can be used in different situation. Therefore, one must not only understand the meaning of the word, but he should be able to master the different situations and contexts in which the word can be applied.
Application of newly-acquired vocabulary in every day life is also very important. It is not sufficient to know new words. One must be able to use them effectively in daily conversations. In this way, you can also use the new words and fix them firmly in your memory.

Best ways to High Score on the GRE

Previously you are completed with your Bachelor’s degree, if you want to go for a Master’s, one thing, among many others, that you simply have to do, is get a high score on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). It is the single most important exam that a person intending to follow a Master’s Degree has to perform well in. The good news is that, the GRE score makes you suitable for admission in not only US universities but also in different other universities in foreign countries.

The GRE is conducted by the Education Testing Service (ETS) and is one of the most important stepping stones towards a great Master’s Degree from a top university. This article aims to give you an outline regarding what you can do to maximize your Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score. 

Knowledge. Nothing beats knowledge. A person who is aware of his/her surroundings is naturally better ready than one who is not. Of course, in this case the knowledge is not so much about surroundings but about the need, guide, syllabus, question type, question difficulty and important dates regarding the GRE. Be aware of these things, so that you will have a natural upper hand.

Know the direction to each question. The GRE has many different types of question which you, as a test taker, have to solve within a fixed amount of time. In such a situation, it is obvious that a person who knows the directions that appear before the question (what to do with the question), has an advantage in terms of saving a valuable amount of time in ultimately solving the question.

Go onto the next question. In a time-bound test, you can’t get stuck on one question, because, in that case, there is the chance that you may miss out on other questions you could have easily solved. So the trick is to do as many questions as you can on the first attempt and leave those questions which you are getting stuck on, for later.

Be sure of your answers. The problem with Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) for the GRE is that you can’t go back to a question once you have answered it. So be doubly sure before selecting an answer and going on the next question.

Do the questions at the beginning with more attention. This is because of the fact that the system of the CAT for the GRE is such that the questions at the beginning of the test affect your score more. Pay more attention to these questions.

Don’t leave any question. The GRE doesn’t carry any negative marking. As a result, be sure, that by the end of the test, you have answered all the questions.

Do a ‘test drive’ some time before the actual test. Be up to date with your test venue, know the routes to it, estimate the time you will require to start in order to reach the venue on time. Any other factor that you need to get familiar with is also included in this point.

How Do Revised GRE Scores Compare to Current GRE Scores?

As GRE is changing so does the GRE score. This is also one of the most significant changes that will come in effect with revised GRE. New 1-point increment system will be introduced from November 2011. So let’s have a look on changes in scoring pattern and how this will effect your university admission.

Basic Facts about GRE Score :

First have a look on how current system is working:

Verbal section –the current verbal section works on 200- 800 scale. There is  +10 increments in scores eg. 210,220.. so on. Total possible scores are 71.Acoording to statistics, averagely two-third GRE takers score between 360 and 600 in verbal section.

Analytical Writing Section – scoring for this section reports on o-6 scale. AWA score is a collective round up score which is assigned by 2 GRE Readers. Roughly, on an average 90% students score 3 in this section.

Now see how revised system will work:

Verbal section –new revised section will report on 130-170 scale. There will 1 point increment eg. 131,132.. so on. Total possible scores will be 41.

Analytical writing section- this section will continue to score on same old 0-6 scale.

Though, scoring pattern is changing but GRE score will be valid for same 5 years as it was in past.


What ETS is saying :

According to ETS, old pattern (+ 10 increments) was not good in case of two almost near scores as it gives an impression that there is huge difference in scores eg. If one student has scored 200 and other student has 210 then this +10 increment giving an impression of huge difference, but in reality it is just one point increment. New revised system will sort out this problem as new pattern (+1 increment) will give clearer picture to compare students with almost near scores. So, there will not much difference between students who have scored 135 and 136 respectively.

How changed scoring pattern will effect your University admission:

Many students are suffering with this dilemma, whether to go with current pattern or wait for revised GRE for better scoring, number of comments that I receive daily prove this statement very true. So question is, whether changed pattern will help you in grabbing your favorite Graduate School or this will make your dream more difficult to fulfill. I think only time will tell the answer when this system will implement next year. Still if we do rough analysis, in case of old pattern suppose if university cut off for GRE is 1100 then students with 1000 score might have an opportunity to get enrolled, but with 1-point increment if required score is 150 then students with 145 score will have least(may be no) opportunity to secure admission. On the other hand, suppose two students have score 139, 140 then students with higher score surely have an advantage over student who have score 139.

If you are planning to take GRE exam from August 2011, you have to do your own analysis for positive and negatives of new GRE 2011 pattern that include changed GRE scoring pattern also. So when you are thinking about to go with current or revised GRE also think about whether to go with current or revised scoring pattern.

Top technology universities in USA offering scholarships

Some top technology institute /universities in USA offering some healthy scholarship.

Here are world ranking is also specified for respective universities.


Not  that some institute like Harvard, MIT stands quite upper in ranking that this ones,but scholarship ratio in this collages are quite low or it's quite not only getting scholarship but even getting admission.
So i go through all collages & checked there basic in-source (scholarship offered by universities itself) & outsource scholarships ( the scholarships which r from funding outside source like us gov. funds or some privet funds to which the university is affiliated or collaborated ).
I have taken great search trough outside scholarships to which universities r affiliated.That increase your scholarship chances.

There are two concept in scholarships freshman scholarships & academic scholarship, which are offer in next semester on basis of  your performance in current academic sem.
I specially recommend u to go through the freshmen scholarships, which are offered before the admission or starting of  your course.

Factors that affect the possibly of getting scholarship.

• your GRE / SAT score
• partially on TOEFL score
• Your area of interest
• Your academic achievements
• Your paper / poster presentation
• Your leadership qualities
• Your cv
• How u wright scholarship application (be a great story teller)
• Your extra-curricular activities

When u are quite confident about fulfilling all this requirements,than apply for scholarship.
Here are some top american Universities. that offer quite good scholarships & having good scholarship providing ratio.

Read all eligibilities & read all scholarships & Than select which suites u better Than apply for scholarship.

This are the list of universities : world ranking


Johns Hopkins University scholarships (wr:17)

Northwestern University scholarships (wr:26)

Carnegie Mellon University scholarships (wr:34)

Brown University scholarships (wr:39)

New York University (NYU) scholarships (wr:41)

University of Wisconsin-Madison scholarships (wr:48)

University of Washington scholarships (page 1, page 2 )(wr:55)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scholarships (wr:63)

Boston University scholarships (wr:64)

University of Texas at Austin scholarships(UT Austin) ( page 1, page 2 ) (wr:67 )

Washington University in St. Louis scholarships ( page 1, page2 )  (wr:75)

Georgia Institute of Technology scholarships (wr:106)

Emory University scholarships (wr:107)