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In article <C1J7sB.E3q@cs.columbia.edu> bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat) writes:
>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?
>

I took the GRE when the analytical part was pretty new--there was no
normalization of scores, it was called 'experimental'--and I hadn't
yet programmed in PROLOG. It sounds like the test hasn't changed, so I'd
say anybody that has written some fairly trivial PROLOG programs
ought to do just fine. Play with PROLOG for a month or two, so you get
the habit (habits are fast, deliberation is slow) of thinking like a
PROLOG interpreter, and have a great time.

Does this fact make the test itself trivial? Well, I think all timed
tests are trivial, so for me the answer is no, the test is already
trivial. As for the connection of PROLOG to logic/predicate calculus,
I think it's fine to have something like formal logic in these 
asinine tests, probably even appropriate, but there's more to analytical
thinking than chugging through well-formed-formulae with all the
intelligence of an IBM PC. But then I'm not a test vendor.


Dale Parson, Bell Labs, dale@mhcnet.att.com

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