SO I just finished and taking the STUPID Diagnostic Test 1 in Barron's "How To Prepare for the GRE: Psychology" book. It's such utter nonsense that it makes me furious. There is no way that I would do as bad on the REAL AND WHAT COUNTS Psych GRE as the score I ended up getting on this load-of-garbage Diagnostic Test.
While I won't go into details on how the test ending up breaking down (which, by the way Barron's, that dumb-ax grading grid is a *choice word (in adjective form)* piece of (mhmm) and you should *choice word* change it for the love of Piper), I ended up getting 93/200 WRONG.
Now, I'm not sure if I have ever mentioned this before, but I graduated Summa Cum Laude from my undergraduate Alma Mater, not to mention that I received a 3.97 GPA within my major, which was General Psychology.
I can't wait to get my hands on a REAL, ETS-APPROVED PRACTICE PSYCH GRE to show Barron's that they very much overdid it and thus should apologize to any person who ever cracked it open. It makes me wonder if they did it on purpose so that whoever takes it feels so struck down that he or she crawls back and buries his or her self wholeheartedly into the Barron's book, all the while shedding bitter tears of failure and brokenness. NO, I didn't CRY. Geez. I'm just Ten-Out-of-Ten-A-Plus-Ticked-Off.
Yes, those of you who may have read my former posts may well know that, yes, I did thoroughly enjoy the Barron's book for the General GRE. I thought that it was stellar. And, yes, I will end up reading through the information that the Psych book has to offer because A.) It's all I have at the moment, B.) I want to compare it to other (probably BETTER) prep books, and C.) just because the tests bite it hard doesn't mean that the real information won't assist me.
To those who put together the Barron's Psychology GRE prep book: a big, European backwards "peace" sign to you. Strong enough?
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