GRE
I took the GRE yesterday. Now, when I apply to graduate school, all of the professors will have an adequate idea of how well I can take a test under pressure that has little or nothing to do with what I’d be doing in college. Woo hoo!
I took the GRE yesterday. Now, when I apply to graduate school, all of the professors will have an adequate idea of how well I can take a test under pressure that has little or nothing to do with what I’d be doing in college. Woo hoo!
October 21st, 2005 at 10:11 am
Does the GRE cover any college-level math yet? It didn’t when I took it (ages ago).
October 22nd, 2005 at 1:33 pm
It didn’t when I took it in July. It’d been a decade since I’d had any of the geometry or trigonometry on there … I had to scrape back some serious cobwebs.
Did you do decently well on the two sections it auto-graded for you, John? You satisfied?
October 22nd, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Wait a sec, isn’t this post from Keir?
October 23rd, 2005 at 11:29 am
I can’t tell … but I guess my question is just as appropriate for Keir. It’s all about being happy with how you did. :)
October 23rd, 2005 at 10:28 pm
The math only goes up to 10th grade geometry (9th grade if you were in the advanced class), but there are a few tricky questions. It’s just a matter of paying attention to what they are really asking. I made some really dumb mistakes when I was relearning the math.
I think I had a total of 1330 for the verbal and quantitative. I don’t remember what I got on the individual sections. I haven’t got the official scores yet. I don’t know if my score is particularly good, but it was better than my practice tests. That’s got to count for something. We’ll have to see what the professors think. I think my field experience is probably more likely to get me into graduate school than the GRE anyway. My undergraduate grades certainly won’t help though.