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?

[Joe Republic]

I scored a 2 on reading comprehension of the previous post.


Congrats!...?

[phk]

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.

[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.

[phk]

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.

In the USA or Sweden/Other Europe?

[fezzyfestoon]

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

Oh wow, that's impressive.  I don't think I could handle more than one more semester of Econ haha

[ilikeverin]

I'll be taking that this spring, probably

[The Mikado]

Congrats, Gustaf.  Your scores resemble mine with Quant and Verbal reversed.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Congratulations, friend.  Fine work

[Torie]

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! 

[opebo]

I also took mine decades ago, and I can't remember the score.  Of course it was fairly good, but I remember it being much less impressive than my SAT/ACT/LSATs.  Do they even still have the ACT anymore?

[The Artist Formerly Known As and Now Again Known As Ogis]

I also took mine decades ago, and I can't remember the score.  Of course it was fairly good, but I remember it being much less impressive than my SAT/ACT/LSATs.  Do they even still have the ACT anymore?

Yes, it certainly exists.

[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...

[Torie]

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...

You did amazingly well with your verbal score considering English is your second language. That is just an incredible achievement Gustaf. Congratulations.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

Did you study like crazy?

[Bacon King]

Great work Gustaf

[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.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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

[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!

[Beet]

I got
800 math
800 verbal
perfect writing

Useless, all useless.

[Torie]

I got
800 math
800 verbal
perfect writing

Useless, all useless.

Wow, just wow. The only chap I know who managed a perfect score on one of these types of tests, was my roommate Ted at the University of Michigan Law School, who got an 800 on the LSAT (I think I got something like a 769 myself, which was the only reason I got into such a fine Law School, since my undergraduate average at the U of C was only about 3.5 (although about 3.8 or so in the Graduate School of Business at the U of C). Ted was a working class kid from Cincinnati, socially inept, but well, brilliant. He got a job at a very prestigious law firm in Chicago, working for a nationally famous and brilliant lawyer, who was also very eccentric, and had no furniture in his office, and worked sitting on the floor. Yes he did. It was a match made in heaven. As Ted told me later, we were both insecure as hell, and thus gravitated towards one another.

I have been supremely privileged to have met some remarkable folks in my life, yes I have, starting with my Dad. I have been so fortunate in so many ways.

[opebo]

I got
800 math
800 verbal
perfect writing

Useless, all useless.

...on the LSAT (I think I got something like a 769 myself, which was the only reason I got into such a fine Law School

Interesting.  When I took the LSAT in the early 90s, it wasn't on that 800 system, if I remember rightly, but something like in the 40s or 60s.  Are you translating to the modern scoring system?

I can't remember my exact score on the LSAT, but I do remember it was in the 99th percentile, which was nice.

And by the way, Beet, you couldn't be more right about the uslessness of test-taking ability (I'm a great example of that).