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In article <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
>It has been my impression as well that the analytical score is widely
>ignored.  But I do wonder why that is so.  At least superficially it
>would seem to me that this score would come closest to measuring an
>important inate ability ie. to reason logically quickly and
>accurately, while the verbal test essentially only measures vocabulary
>which anybody can acquire by reading and the quantitative test doesn't
>touch on anything which any reasonably awake eighth grader even in an
>american high school wouldn't have learned regardless of talent.  Does
>anybody know ?

The verbal portion of the SAT/GRE measure how much reading a student has
done in the past by testing the student's vocabulary to the limits.
US high school and college students watch too much TV and party
too much.  Do you really want a grad student who hasn't read much
in the last 8 years?

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