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Article #833Re: Gre scores
From: Wing-Keong Loke the consummate c...
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:46
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:46
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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 ? > > Carl Edman because the psychologists found that the score didn't correlate well! Just goes to show what common sense is worth. Good too. I bombed the analytic section.
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Newsgroups: misc.education Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ftpbox!news.acns.nwu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!nntp.msstate.edu!Ra.MsState.Edu!wkl1 From: wkl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Wing-Keong Loke the consummate chronic prevaricator) Subject: Re: Gre scores Message-ID: <1993Jan27.214613.11388@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: news@ra.msstate.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu Organization: Mississippi State University References: <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:46:13 GMT Lines: 18