 What's up y'all? So I wanted to talk to you guys today about the GRE. I know you've seen some of my videos, like everything you need to know about the GRE in eight minutes, and if you have not already seen that, go ahead, take a look at that video. And then you can come back to this video because I had a question posed about when is the best time to take the GRE? So that is what I'm gonna be answering in today's video. Let's get into it right now. What's up y'all? Listen down and welcome back to my channel. So like I said, I had the question posed, when is the best time to take your GRE? Now, obviously this is gonna be relative to you all, but since you're asking me, I'm gonna give you my opinion on when I believe the best time it is to kind of take the GRE. Now the GRE is used for grad school in general, so it's not just for PA school. So if you're taking the GRE to get into grad school to do, you know, I don't know, like an MBA or something like that, or to get your doctorate for whatever it is that you're studying, this may not necessarily hold true to you, but I still think it's pretty on par, like across the board with anything because it gives you time, like for contingencies, right? It's time to kind of assess when you expect something to happen a certain way, and it doesn't quite happen the way that you expected it to. It gives you the opportunity to now like kind of rectify that situation. Now, as I stated in my like pre-pre-thing, the GRE is still the major like go-to test for PA school. We do have the PA cat and Casper, the PA cat is more just science-based, the GRE has a lot of math in it. So that's why some schools are kind of moving away from it because it's not really an assessment of all of your science-based knowledge, which is what you really need when getting into PA school and going through PA school, and then obviously becoming a provider. You're gonna need to know all of like the building blocks, the basics of life, and then how we build on that. And so that is why people are moving more towards the PA cat, but there are still lots of schools requiring or highly recommending the GRE. So for those of you who are applying to schools like that, I think it's important for you to first and foremost assess when you're going to apply to that program. So if you're applying to the program as soon as Casper opens up in April, then I feel like the benchmark time, like just across the board, when you should apply and take your GRE is six months before your application. Now six months, I don't know why do you say six months? I say six months because I think that it's important for you to have enough time to not only study for the exam, but like I said, if the exam does not quite go like how you expected it to go, it gives you the opportunity to now retake the exam, like re-study again, study and look at things that you may not have felt comfortable on before, and then take the exam over. The GRE is good for five years. That's it, five years, right? And hopefully in that time you would have gotten better, you would have gotten into PA school, and be well on your way to becoming or you're already a PA. However, that's not always the case. So six months is the benchmark. You study for three months, you take the GRE, and then you still have three months, depending on what score you get to either study again, or you're just kind of already prepared and you're sending in your information to Casper. But this way, this allows you enough time to send your scores to Casper. It takes about two weeks, sometimes even longer, sometimes up to four weeks for Casper to verify all of your application information. And because of that, that's why that little other three month buffer is important, okay? So for me, if you're asking me, Adana, when the best time to take your GRE is, I would say within like a six month period before you actually need the exam. Because you need to be able to have those contingencies in place, just in case things don't go exactly as planned, okay? So if you guys have any other questions for me, go ahead and leave them in the comment section below. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe to my channel. Follow me on Instagram and on PA, I don't Instagram, I get that's the university. And join me throughout the week as I continue to put more shorts out. Check out my most recent short, especially if you're a female from the age group of 21 to 65, because we're talking about your cervix and cervical health, all right? Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.