When standardized tests have you copy those confidentiality statements...

[thirtythree]

and they say "DO NOT PRINT," what exactly do they mean? Are you supposed to use cursive or just your regular handwriting? I always do it in cursive just to be safe, but it generally takes me longer than the allotted time because I never write in cursive. Plus it ends up being a cursive-print mix. Anywho...

 

[kami333]

I used to just scrible it, it's not like anyone is going to take the time to read all of them anyways. So what if you forgot a word here and there, as long as it looks correct it's fine.

 

[thirtythree]

 

[thirtythree]

In other news, I just got a 1500 on the GRE. The confidentiality statement was especially long and consequently took me about 50 hours to copy.

EDIT: And which GRE book is it that tells you to write "abcde" a bunch of times on your scratch paper during the tutorial time? I'm pretty sure it's against ETS policy and there was a girl who tried to do it at my test center and had her scratch paper taken away.

 

[ViRGE]

When I was in school, I just printed it(i.e. normal handwriting) anyhow. It's faster, plus I hadn't used cursive in so long for anything besides my name, I really didn't have a clue how to write the statement anyhow.😱

 

[rezinn]

Do not print means do not use a printer or a machine that creates text for you. You can write it, doesn't have to be in cursive.

How did you get a 1500 on the GRE if you can't spell cursive? 😛 j/k I know how easy that test is.

 

[WhiteKnight]

1500? Is that just the two section score? I took it before they eliminated the analytic section. Also, what's the point of the abcde thing?

 

[Landroval]

Originally posted by: thirtythree
EDIT: And which GRE book is it that tells you to write "abcde" a bunch of times on your scratch paper during the tutorial time? I'm pretty sure it's against ETS policy and there was a girl who tried to do it at my test center and had her scratch paper taken away.

What would the purpose of that be?

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: rezinn
Do not print means do not use a printer or a machine that creates text for you. You can write it, doesn't have to be in cursive.

How did you get a 1500 on the GRE if you can't spell cursive? 😛 j/k I know how easy that test is.

Wow, I don't know how I managed that. I do know how to spell cursive though, don't worry. I thought it might mean don't use a printer, but you copy them on your answer sheet right before you take the test. Not many people bring printers in to standardized tests with them.

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
1500? Is that just the two section score? I took it before they eliminated the analytic section. Also, what's the point of the abcde thing?

Yeah, that's 2 sections.

Originally posted by: Landroval

Originally posted by: thirtythree
EDIT: And which GRE book is it that tells you to write "abcde" a bunch of times on your scratch paper during the tutorial time? I'm pretty sure it's against ETS policy and there was a girl who tried to do it at my test center and had her scratch paper taken away.

What would the purpose of that be?

Sounded silly to me too, but in theory you can work out each question in its space and cross off choices and such. I just wrote ol' Princeton an e-mail, so we'll see what they say. EDIT: To clarify, you're supposed to divide each page into sections for individual questions and then put ABCDE in each section.