GRE Scores By Discipline

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Post by Jebdm » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 12:24 AM UTC

GRE Scores By Discipline
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Post by brentr » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 12:46 AM UTC

That's close for physics and mathematics: 790 quant, 590 verbal for me.

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Post by Dilpil » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 12:51 AM UTC

Interesting that Math and Science graduates barely scored lower on the verbal sections. I've always felt that the so called verbal section is really more of a discreet math/type theory test plus vocab.

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Post by blackguardx » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 12:53 AM UTC

brentr wrote: post #2

That's close for physics and mathematics: 790 quant, 590 verbal for me.

800 quantitative and 660 verbal and I'm an EE.

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Post by ojbyrne » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 12:58 AM UTC

What's the analytic scale mean? I have an analytical writing score but it's on a 0-6 scale.

800 quant, 710 verbal. And 46 years old when I took it. ;-)

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Post by blackguardx » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 1:14 AM UTC

ojbyrne wrote: post #5

What's the analytic scale mean? I have an analytical writing score but it's on a 0-6 scale. 800 quant, 710 verbal. And 46 years old when I took it. ;-)

In the past (around the turn of the century), the analytical section consisted of logic and reasoning problems. It was probably similar to some of the LSAT questions.

They converted it to a writing section relatively recently

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 1:15 AM UTC

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Post by blackguardx » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 1:17 AM UTC

Dilpil wrote: post #3

Interesting that Math and Science graduates barely scored lower on the verbal sections. I've always felt that the so called verbal section is really more of a discreet math/type theory test plus vocab.

Can you explain?

The verbal section consists of antonyms, analogies, sentence completion, and reading comprehension.

I don't know much about discreet math. How does it apply in this case?

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Post by Alex3917 » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 1:18 AM UTC

The fact that every discipline uses the same test for admissions says more about the quality of academia than the scores.

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Post by ojbyrne » Tue, Jan 06, 2009, 1:26 AM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #9

The fact that every discipline uses the same test for admissions says more about the quality of academia than the scores.

There are eight additional subject specific tests related to specific discliplines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Record_Examination#GRE...