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Article #834Re: Gre scores
From: Dinkar Bhat
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:31
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:31
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In article <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >In article <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> owen-christopher@yale.edu (Christopher Owen) writes: > In article <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> mjr4u@Virginia.EDU (Matthew Jerome Rush) writes: > >How important is your analytical score? I did pretty average > >on the first two, but got a 690 on what I like to call the > >"Crossword Puzzle Book" section. Did that really help me get > >into a good English program? > > This really depends. Some programs openly say that they don't consider the > analytical score. Most psychology programs for instance claim that they > don't even look at it (unlikely but that is what they say). My guess is > that a good analytical score will of course help in english programs, but > not all that much. > I consider the analytical part as a ridiculous. If you have a bag of tricks you will be fine. The analytical part has the highest degree of error compared to the other two. It may be more suitable to somebody who wants to be in business? Dinkar.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!opl.com!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!bhat From: bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat) Newsgroups: misc.education Subject: Re: Gre scores Message-ID: <C1J7sB.E3q@cs.columbia.edu> Date: 27 Jan 93 21:31:23 GMT References: <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 20