Attention whoring: GRE

[Gustaf]

I just got my results from GRE. I scored 800 on quantitative, 680 on verbal and 5.5 on writing. So I'm glad! Anyone else here ever do it?

[Gustaf]

I think it would be obvious to someone who knows the test.

You can get 800 on verbal and quantitative, 6 on writing.

[Gustaf]

I just got my results from GRE. I scored 800 on quantitative, 680 on verbal and 5.5 on writing. So I'm glad! Anyone else here ever do it?

You going for Econ Ph.D?

I'm considering enrolling in a Math MS, Computer Science MS or EE MS and may have to take it.  Get highish marks on the quantitative section. Just my mass pursuit of designations such as CFA, CPA, FRM, Actuary kind of gets in the way.

Yeah, I'm probably going to try and get into an Econ Ph.D next term or the year after.

[Gustaf]

I took the GRE a billion years ago after my first year at the Chicago graduate school of business, as a formality. I got just under 800 on the verbal, and around 710 or something on the math part.

So I am very impressed with your quantitative smarts! 

I'm probably more of a verbal person, actually, but that's where English being only my second language starts to show. I suspect I lost most of my points on the antonyms and all that - there were plenty of words I had no idea what they meant.

When I took a similarly structured Swedish test some years ago I scored 78/80 on the verbal part and 39/42 on the quantitative. But then it was mostly Swedish verbal skills and pretty easy English stuff for Swedes, which makes a big difference...

[Gustaf]

Did you study like crazy?

Well, I did the practice test that was in the leaflet they sent out. And I also did some other test I found the evening before (I also spent most of that evening rehearsing geometry - I haven't used most of that stuff since high school and I learnt all the terms in Swedish so I had to memorize what stuff like equilateral means in Swedish ).

But it isn't really one of those tests where I think studying makes a lot of a difference.

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Torie, Bacon King and everyone else who commented - thanks a lot for the kind words! I've had a heap on my plate this term, especially study-wise so it felt great to achieve something.

[Gustaf]

GRE? Is that sort of uni application test or other? Those marks sound high for whatever it is, so congratulations.

It's used for master and PhD level. You have to do it to apply for the PhD program at my university so I decided to take it, so that I would be eligible to apply.

And I ended up in the top 5% on all sections, apparently, so I'm fairly pleased, thanks!