Interesting: Philosophy scored higher on Verbal than English/Language.
GRE Scores By Discipline
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I talked to the dept head in aero at MIT during the 90s and he told me that the verbal section of the GRE was the only correlation he'd seen to success.
Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to form-fit the ETS's method of verbal testing. In my own experience the verbal section of the GRE was entirely nonsensical. The vocabulary was difficult and exactly the type of vocabulary I would use if i…
"I heard a rumor"
I'm a counterexample to the rumor.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The fact that every discipline uses the same test for admissions says more about the quality of academia than the scores." What discipline is completely without use for reading skill, or for the kind of secondary school mathematics that appears on the GRE quantitative section?
"What discipline is completely without use for reading skill, or for the kind of secondary school mathematics that appears on the GRE quantitative section?" The GRE doesn't measure reading skill, that's what the NALS is for. The GRE verbal is just a test of how many wank words you've memorized. Same goes for the math test.
"The GRE verbal is just a test of how many wank words you've memorized."
Evidence for this? (By which I mean, do you have any evidence that the GRE verbal section has failed validation studies to which it has been subjected by graduate schools?)
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#44GRE is a test of your perseverance, tenacity, ability to stay focused and work towards a goal more than it is the test of how well you speak/understand/write English.
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#45Is it me, or is education being on the bottom uplifting? I feel like we'd have a serious problem if it were on top.
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#46What'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
In 2003, in fact, the year after this data was taken. (That was when I took the test, and I had the writing section instead of the analytical, LSAT-like section. Much, much easier.)
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#47Religion > Education ... interesting
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I heard a rumor that the only people who got 800s on the verbal section were foreigners. (Read: people who can't speak English.) The explanation was that they were the only ones willing to invest enough time to form-fit the ETS's method of verbal testing. In my own experience the verbal section of the GRE was entirely nonsensical. The vocabulary was difficult and exactly the type of vocabulary I would use if i…
"I heard a rumor" I'm a counterexample to the rumor.
Me too. Somehow I aced the verbal section, with a moderate amount of study, starting ~6 weeks before the test. I think it might be because I was raised without a TV and so read a lot as a kid. The questions at the end of the test (it's adaptive, computer administered) seemed to focus on the exact nuance of similar words.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I heard a rumor" I'm a counterexample to the rumor.
Me too. Somehow I aced the verbal section, with a moderate amount of study, starting ~6 weeks before the test. I think it might be because I was raised without a TV and so read a lot as a kid. The questions at the end of the test (it's adaptive, computer administered) seemed to focus on the exact nuance of similar words.
And the jury's out on any correlation to my success.
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#50Verbal and Quantitative have vastly different distributions. Simply adding them together favors those in quantitative fields. I think that the smaller variance in verbal scores should have tipped him off.
Normalizing the distributions would not change the rankings by much.