GREs today
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I've taken about 4 practice tests, and scored over 700 on all the quantitative portions, so I'm not worried about that. It's all the other stuff. My average verbal score is like 500.
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The GRE isn't that bad. Everyone says that the quantitative is much easier than the verbal. However, I scored 250 points higher on the verbal, so...? You should be able to finish within 2 hours, depending on how fast you write.
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If it's computerized, you don't have to wait. They allow you to take, I think, a 15 minute break somewhere in there, but you are not required to. I just sat down and didn't get back up until I had finished.
Edit: Oh, and remember, GPA doesn't matter.
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hahah...yea I'm hoping I do well enough that they're so amazed at my perfect GRE score that they don't even look at my GPA on my transcript.
Actually I'm not too concerned about my GPA or my GRE score. I have a lot of "real" experience and am currently working for a top company, and I earned a lot of awards for my work in college - I'm applying to 3 schools, 2 I'd say I'm definitely getting into, 1 I'm probably not getting into, sooo no big deal right?
Actually I'm not too concerned about my GPA or my GRE score. I have a lot of "real" experience and am currently working for a top company, and I earned a lot of awards for my work in college - I'm applying to 3 schools, 2 I'd say I'm definitely getting into, 1 I'm probably not getting into, sooo no big deal right?
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Experience, publications, and awards are the most important factors when applying to a graduate program. GPA and GRE are just standards to give everyone a baseline. I got in to grad school based on my volunteer activities, real world experience, and the fact that I had two published article during my undergraduate years. My GRE and GPA were good, but not excellent.
You better check yo'self before you wreck yo'self.
Search Hzl's 2nd shameless pics thread, there is one of Deeko.
I'd hit it. j/k Deeko, good luck man!
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On the contrary, I got into grad school (in EE at Georgia Tech, also admited to UT-Austin with a full fellowship) pretty much based on my GPA and GRE. I had some good extracurriculurs (was president of my fraternity), and only 1 summer of internship (real world experiene) when I applied. No publications/research done as an undergrad either (and in fact, none in grad school, nonthesis masters). I guess I had a couple of awards, some scholarships that I had won along the way.
It really depends on the subject you're entering.
GL on the GRE. 800/780/590 Q/A/V here. Too bad they did away with the analytical section. For an engineer, the quantitative is so easy it's worthless, but the analytical actually had enough of a range to be quite meaningful.
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-I took them at prometics in Conshohocken on elm st
-I think thepd7 actually would hook up with me :Q
-I did ok, 740 quantatative, 550 verbal. I'm a pretty good writer so I'd imagine at least a 5.0 there.
-Of the schools I'm applying to, one has an average of 780Q/540V/4.5W, one has 720Q/500V/UNKNOWNW and the other isn't listed for my major, so not bad. For the first school (Penn), I probably won't get in on the basis of being a non-rich white guy with a 2.87 undergrad GPA, haha, but a decent GRE and my other accomplishments might be enough. We'll see.
-I think thepd7 actually would hook up with me :Q
-I did ok, 740 quantatative, 550 verbal. I'm a pretty good writer so I'd imagine at least a 5.0 there.
-Of the schools I'm applying to, one has an average of 780Q/540V/4.5W, one has 720Q/500V/UNKNOWNW and the other isn't listed for my major, so not bad. For the first school (Penn), I probably won't get in on the basis of being a non-rich white guy with a 2.87 undergrad GPA, haha, but a decent GRE and my other accomplishments might be enough. We'll see.
I hate the GRE... it's such a stupid measure of absolutey *nothing*.
I mean, the math is what... algebra and extremely basic geometry. I could've scored an 800 in 6th or 7th grade. It's EASIER than the SAT math... which is already beyond trivial! My biggest worry was making a careless mistake on one of the easy problems, thereby fvcking myself over on their difficulty-based decision-tree scoring thing.
The verbal on the other hand, is just insane. I consider myself to be reasonably well-read (esp for an engineering major!), and there are just SO many words that I've never seen before. Words that I will (probably) only encounter once in my life: on the GRE. I really don't see what the verbal section is testing--my ability to memorize words? Because that's what I did. Worst part is it barely helped me because even on the GRE, there are GRE-common (not that bad) and GRE-obscure (never heard of any of these) words. If your obscure basis doesn't span your GRE's test space (har har), you lose. I mean I can kind of see using sentence completion/analogies to test your grasp of the English language & your analytical thinking (analogies). I can see reading comprehension there to make sure you can read correctly. But I do not see how requiring a bunch of obscure vocabulary helps with anything.
Lastly, let me gripe about the writing part... that's probably the most reasonable section of the entire GRE exam, but still. Too bad both writing sections are incredibly formulaic, meaning that so long as you can apply grammar correctly and can come up with some BS (45min section) or poke holes in an obviously crappy argument (30min section), you win. But I mean honestly, most people (who are applying to grad school) can figure out the logical fallacies in the 30min prompt... like claiming that a sample size of 2 generalizes to a whole population, or something similar... so that's not hard. The 45min section can be annoying since you often just don't give a shit about the prompt--really puts the "invent some BS fast!" skills to the test.
Anyway, I took it in August of this year, and thank GOD that bull is over. NO MORE STANDARDIZED EXAMS EVER!!!!!! (Eh, except for quals.)
Edit: Oh yeah, for grad school, the GRE really isn't THAT important. It is more of an elimination tool than anything. For example, if I apply to Harvard math with a 500Q score, they'd probably reject me outright. V & W are more to check that you know English at a reasonable level. Having a good GPA, research experience, and otherwise demonstrating a strong interest in learning/research/grad school-ish things are much more important. (Oh, and high quality recommendations are big boosters too.)
Edit2: Given the difficulty of the vocabulary in the V section, I think the GRE folks should definitely throw some real math on the exam. If the engineering majors need to know some fancy (never to be used again) words, then the humanities folks should be able to AT LEAST do calculus & differential equations... not to mention trig! Because those topics would be about as useful to a reporter as fancy vocab is to me.
I mean, the math is what... algebra and extremely basic geometry. I could've scored an 800 in 6th or 7th grade. It's EASIER than the SAT math... which is already beyond trivial! My biggest worry was making a careless mistake on one of the easy problems, thereby fvcking myself over on their difficulty-based decision-tree scoring thing.
The verbal on the other hand, is just insane. I consider myself to be reasonably well-read (esp for an engineering major!), and there are just SO many words that I've never seen before. Words that I will (probably) only encounter once in my life: on the GRE. I really don't see what the verbal section is testing--my ability to memorize words? Because that's what I did. Worst part is it barely helped me because even on the GRE, there are GRE-common (not that bad) and GRE-obscure (never heard of any of these) words. If your obscure basis doesn't span your GRE's test space (har har), you lose. I mean I can kind of see using sentence completion/analogies to test your grasp of the English language & your analytical thinking (analogies). I can see reading comprehension there to make sure you can read correctly. But I do not see how requiring a bunch of obscure vocabulary helps with anything.
Lastly, let me gripe about the writing part... that's probably the most reasonable section of the entire GRE exam, but still. Too bad both writing sections are incredibly formulaic, meaning that so long as you can apply grammar correctly and can come up with some BS (45min section) or poke holes in an obviously crappy argument (30min section), you win. But I mean honestly, most people (who are applying to grad school) can figure out the logical fallacies in the 30min prompt... like claiming that a sample size of 2 generalizes to a whole population, or something similar... so that's not hard. The 45min section can be annoying since you often just don't give a shit about the prompt--really puts the "invent some BS fast!" skills to the test.
Anyway, I took it in August of this year, and thank GOD that bull is over. NO MORE STANDARDIZED EXAMS EVER!!!!!! (Eh, except for quals.
)Edit: Oh yeah, for grad school, the GRE really isn't THAT important. It is more of an elimination tool than anything. For example, if I apply to Harvard math with a 500Q score, they'd probably reject me outright. V & W are more to check that you know English at a reasonable level. Having a good GPA, research experience, and otherwise demonstrating a strong interest in learning/research/grad school-ish things are much more important. (Oh, and high quality recommendations are big boosters too.)
Edit2: Given the difficulty of the vocabulary in the V section, I think the GRE folks should definitely throw some real math on the exam. If the engineering majors need to know some fancy (never to be used again) words, then the humanities folks should be able to AT LEAST do calculus & differential equations... not to mention trig! Because those topics would be about as useful to a reporter as fancy vocab is to me.
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