Also a thank you goes out to my wife for convincing me to review the grading criteria for the writing section and another large thank you to over the counter speed
What prep did you use? How did you find the writing section?
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I didn't do any prep. I just briefly reviewed scoring for the writing section. I felt frustrated by the writing section because I wasn't sure what voice to use and the instructions are vague as fuck with lots of room for interpretation
Congratulations, bey. That's great; I hope it smooths the path into grad school if that's what you want to do.
I did okay on the GRE way back when, though it was not really a requirement for most Canadian grad programs (and the few American programs to which I applied weren't going to take me no matter what).
The test, however, doesn't directly measure the things that (in my experience) differentiate grad students -- and professors -- further downstream. E.g., determination, focus, work ethic, consistency, and the emotional skills needed to work in frequently weird context that demands an active commitment to social learning, but is driven thoroughly atomistic evaluations and incentives.
Congratulations, bey. That's great; I hope it smooths the path into grad school if that's what you want to do.
I did okay on the GRE way back when, though it was not really a requirement for most Canadian grad programs (and the few American programs to which I applied weren't going to take me no matter what).
The test, however, doesn't directly measure the things that (in my experience) differentiate grad students -- and professors -- further downstream. E.g., determination, focus, work ethic, consistency, and the emotional skills needed to work in frequently weird context that demands an active commitment to social learning, but is driven thoroughly atomistic evaluations and incentives.
I certainly agree. I have always had a way with standardized tests. I am glad that I do well on them, but meh.
I scored really well on the sat back in the day and flunked out of college the first time.
When I first saw this thread's title, a story formed in my head:
beyelzu was battling a monster; it was a horrible, ugly thing that was very rarely seen. It had a name but since sightings were so few and far between, most of us had never heard of it.
But the brave beyelzu knew exactly what the creature was--and how dangerous--and set to work dispatching it. Just after he dealt the death blow, bey turned to his computer and began to tell us of his exploits, "I just crushed the gre-..."
Alas, the thing was only mostly dead and it rose up again and KILLED bey just before he could tell us what the goddamned thing was called.
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The moral of this story is ... Fucker, if you had typed GRE instead of gre I would have known what your thread was really about and not opened it been worried about you.
I don't remember that much about them when I took them way back in the Clinton Administration, other than that the history gre had only three questions on ancient history all the rest were American or European. What I learned from that was that that really old history isn't really important, not like that new history, that's much newer. And shinier.
More recently I found that my most favoritest thing about the gres is how they only keep your scores for 5 years, then you get to take them all over again.
I just crushed the gre
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