my first blog

Now that I am preparing for GRE, I would try to improve my issue essay writing skills here rather than putting them on paper. Although I planned to give the exam late this summer, i dont think i have enough time to prepare for it, owing to the facts that I will be given assignments and projects this semester and they will be nothing like easy to do. Moreover there are tests here and there all through the semester to make me restless. now, i joined a preparation course for GRE.
If someone asks me whether it does any good taking up the GRE course i would be in no position to answer as i have'nt tasted any of good or bad so far. i suppose it depends on the way we take the course. for example when they first gave me the wordlists to prepare in my vacation for a test that was conducted the day i returned to college i was dumbstruck at the sight of the paper. the format of questions was completely unfamiliar to me as i simply mugged up some words, i could not zero in on any synonym for the meaning they asked me. then, i thought they should have said the approach in reading the wordlist beforehand. i still did'nt get what they were upto in giving these long wordlists without giving any idea how to prepare. is it that they thought we would get to know eventually or anything else!!
what good does it do to us learning all these english words?? and how does this help us do our masters in U.S etc ? some say we cannot understand what the professors say unless we learn quite a lot of these words. is every American adept with all these words? i dont think so!! and when it relates to understanding a professor's lecture then how come there be different cut offs for different universities? do the professors at higher rated universities speak in words that people cannot easily understand? they are'nt teaching english i suppose.. moreover there is a part namely quantitative section where in secondary school level mathematics is tested..i dont think thats very much necessary when the level of questions is so simple.
Anyway when they want some skills for doing masters we need to practice them. so better not think my way and think how to crack GRE!! :) all the best for me !!!!