Wish me luck!

[bmccasland]

Good luck! I had my brain fried by that exam. Got home, and had absolutely no reccollection of getting there. Had to go check the car for scratches & dings - fortunately there weren't any.

And then I didn't go to grad school. But I did get good scores.

[redrhodie]

Good luck!

[tribogota]

I got the worst score on the GRE TWICE and applied to grad school 3 years in a row, finally got into an excellent program with the terrible GRE and have a PHD so just be perserverant!

[wannaduacentury]

I got the worst score on the GRE TWICE and applied to grad school 3 years in a row, finally got into an excellent program with the terrible GRE and have a PHD so just be perserverant!

+1 Way to go. What's your doctorate in? I'm considering the same route. Working on BA in History right now(non trad. junior). Sometimes I think these entrance tests are a waste of time b/c In my opinion, it really doesn't represent how intelligent or determined a person really is or what they can accomplish. Jenn

[Possegal]

I took them ages ago - no computerized test for me. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad one. I test well on those sorts of things, so I just walked in and took it. I agree that it doesn't gauge many things that you need to get through a PhD program. I do think a lot of programs are not requiring them anymore. My scores in math and verbal are nearly always identical, not sure what that says about me.

One guy I was in grad school with took them several times, while we were in the program, until he got the minimum score needed. Yet he was doing fine in the program. More fuel to the 'why are they necessary' camp. He's since been published in "Science", which is a pretty good feat for our field.

[ny biker]

When I took the GRE (late '80s) it was a 3-part test. The third section was some kind of logic or analytical thing, I think. Did they drop that?

[Owlie]

Yeah, they dropped that. It's now verbal+math+writing.
Possegal--My opinion on the computerized test is that it's a bad thing. It sort of defeats the purpose of a "standardized" test, since the computerized version is an adaptive test. It also means that you can't skip questions that are giving you a hard time.