GRE Lit
I expect to do very badly on it, so I don't have high expectations. Strangely enough, due to my lack of high expectations, I have very little anxiety. While this test is a bajillion times harder than the general GRE and there is just SO MUCH MORE STUFF to study for, it isn't nearly as anxiety-inducing because I at least know how to study for literature and how to memorize plots and character names etc.
These past two days I did everything from Chaucer up to Wordsworth. (That's roughly 1350 to 1850 for those of you who are curious.) Left out Shakespeare, but 500 years is a lot of material to cover! Tomorrow, I plan on finishing out Romanticism and Victorianism. It would be great if I can manage to get started on British Modernism, so that way I can devote Wednesday to finishing up Modernism, American Lit, Thursday to American Lit and African American lit, and Friday to the few World texts we need to know (Flaubert, Balzac, Dolstoyevsky, Tolstoy, etc.) and to reviewing all my index cards like a madwoman.
My tendonitis will probably be terribly aggravated by the time my test is over. It's already bothering me now, after an entire day of index-card making. But if I want to be able to figure out that "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is Wordsworth while "Come live with me and be my love" is Marlowe, I have to know everything. And I mean. Everything.
As of my last score (570) that I took on a practice test a week and a half ago, I am still in the 58%. Which means I suck. All I hope is I can make it to 600, which is in the 70%.
These past two days I did everything from Chaucer up to Wordsworth. (That's roughly 1350 to 1850 for those of you who are curious.) Left out Shakespeare, but 500 years is a lot of material to cover! Tomorrow, I plan on finishing out Romanticism and Victorianism. It would be great if I can manage to get started on British Modernism, so that way I can devote Wednesday to finishing up Modernism, American Lit, Thursday to American Lit and African American lit, and Friday to the few World texts we need to know (Flaubert, Balzac, Dolstoyevsky, Tolstoy, etc.) and to reviewing all my index cards like a madwoman.
My tendonitis will probably be terribly aggravated by the time my test is over. It's already bothering me now, after an entire day of index-card making. But if I want to be able to figure out that "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is Wordsworth while "Come live with me and be my love" is Marlowe, I have to know everything. And I mean. Everything.
As of my last score (570) that I took on a practice test a week and a half ago, I am still in the 58%. Which means I suck. All I hope is I can make it to 600, which is in the 70%.