The GRE Effect

GRE(Graduate Record Exam) – is the exam involving the testing of your knowledge in English language, including vocablaries, grammer and more. Many Engineering students in India give this test to achieve post graduation in foreign countries. So, to put glance on the mindset of this students, I have found this exciting list of short phrases (sentences) from the Magazine “Synapse” showing how complicated will GRE student make the most simplest sentence.

GRE Student: Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulating perilous projectiles.

Normal Person: People who live in glass houses cannot throw stones.

GRE Student: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not trult auriferous.

Normal Person: All that glitters is not gold.

GRE Student: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small green, biophytic plant.

Normal Person: A rolling stone gathers no moss.

GRE Student: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

Normal Person: Birds of a feather flock together.

GRE Student: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

Normal Person: Cleanliness is godliness.

I wonder how would they teach the poem – “Twinkle, twinkle little star” to there little child? They would say as “Scintillate, scintillate, asteriod minim”. Hey! The baby is gona go mad.