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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by raveed
I am studying for the GMAT right now and from what i hear, some of the sections on it are similar to that of the GRE. |
My wife is studying for the GMAT now too. I looked through the material and I honestly have no idea how it's much different from the GRE. They are just scored differently; each of the GRE's sections- math, verbal, analytical- having 800 attainable points (most schools i think combine m+v with the analytical score the deciding factor if there is stiff competition between applicants. Some schools let you combine the two of your choice). She's trying for a Masters in accounting, and for admittance they want to use a formula like, GPA x 100 + GMAT score for a total of at least 750. So if you have a 4.0 gpa for example, you can probably show up drunk for the GMAT and do well enough. |
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
what program and school are you using the GRE's to get into? 1140 is a good score in most respects. How did you do on the analytical section? |
Oh the writing section? Bad. Got a 3 on the analytical part. They said I need to use specific examples. For the argument part I got a 5 though. I guess I just have to read now what the ETS is looking for so I can regurgitate back what they want.
I want to go into Neuroscience. |
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
1140 is kind of weak, is that for quant and verbal? |
It was preliminary; to see how I am before I start studying. 610 on Math and 530 on Verbal. |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
1140 is a good score in most respects. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
1140 is kind of weak, is that for quant and verbal? |
:conf: so which is it?
and what, you need to take the GRE before you can attend grad school? i always kinda assumed that once you got your bachelor's you could just kinda continue on to get your master's. /dummy |
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
:conf: so which is it?
and what, you need to take the GRE before you can attend grad school? i always kinda assumed that once you got your bachelor's you could just kinda continue on to get your master's. /dummy |
I think the GRE is just a US/Canadian practice. And depending on what you want to go in, the importance of your GREs varies. In fact, the ETS suggests you check the college and area you want to go in to figure out just how important they are. But most grad schools require GREs just as a formality. GRE to grad school = SAT to undergrad. Required most of the time. I never took my SATs and I was accepted into undergrad. :D
All I know is words like "capricious" and "voracious" and "ennui" have ing nothing to do with neuroscience. |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
I think the GRE is just a US/Canadian practice. And depending on what you want to go in, the importance of your GREs varies. In fact, the ETS suggests you check the college and area you want to go in to figure out just how important they are. But most grad schools require GREs just as a formality. GRE to grad school = SAT to undergrad. Required most of the time. I never took my SATs and I was accepted into undergrad. :D
All I know is words like "capricious" and "voracious" and "ennui" have ing nothing to do with neuroscience. |
lol, i have a feeling that i would blast through the english part and totally botch the math part. i haven't taken any math class past math110 in college so far, which is like.. algebra 2 in high school :( i'm dreading the 300 level math class i need to take to graduate, let alone the possibility of having to take the GRE with even more complex mathematics. is the GRE like, calculus-type math or is it less intense?
the stereotype isn't true- i'm asian and i ing suck at math. |
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| raveed |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
I think the GRE is just a US/Canadian practice. And depending on what you want to go in, the importance of your GREs varies. In fact, the ETS suggests you check the college and area you want to go in to figure out just how important they are. But most grad schools require GREs just as a formality. GRE to grad school = SAT to undergrad. Required most of the time. I never took my SATs and I was accepted into undergrad. :D
All I know is words like "capricious" and "voracious" and "ennui" have ing nothing to do with neuroscience. |
Those words may have nothing to do in the GRE but the test makers are pretty darn good at formulating questions that test attributes a lot deeper than what the test taker might perceive them to be.
- Those particular words may not seem important but perhaps they serve as an indicator of how good you are at memorizing and being able to use complex terms to connect the dots.
-If you have been out of school for a while, the tests might serve as an example to show that you still have the ability to learn and will be able to survive the vigors of grad school.
- With the tests now being adaptive and the difficulty level of the next question depending on how well you answered the previous one, they do seem to be a fairly good indicator of your intelligence level. I haven't yet met a guy who got a 1350+ on the GRE or a 700+ on the GMAT and questioned how he/she managed to pull that of.
- They also serve as a universal standard of a score given that each country has it's own educational system different from that of other countries
- On a superficial level, schools also use the average GPA's , GRE/GMAT scores in magazines that conduct rankings to boast about the average scores of students who attended.
- A good example on why certain topics are chosen - on the GMAT, they have sentence correction which they say is tested to see how good you, as a business leader may be at avoiding lawsuits given how any misplaced word that you signed of on can alter a situation. |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
lol, i have a feeling that i would blast through the english part and totally botch the math part. i haven't taken any math class past math110 in college so far, which is like.. algebra 2 in high school :( i'm dreading the 300 level math class i need to take to graduate, let alone the possibility of having to take the GRE with even more complex mathematics. is the GRE like, calculus-type math or is it less intense?
the stereotype isn't true- i'm asian and i ing suck at math. |
It depends on how well you do as you progress (as Raveed explained). If you find yourself getting calculus type questions, rest assured you're knocking it out. If you're at the end of the math section and you're still being asked to add fractions, bad news. lol |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| I thought this thread was about registering as a sex offender |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
It was preliminary; to see how I am before I start studying. 610 on Math and 530 on Verbal. |
that's not too bad then. You should always shoot for a 700 in something even though most people say a 600 is good. I got a 710 in the quant section and the grad schools I applied for loved it. |
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| Konijn |
| what's the exam like now? i took it 9 years ago. it was verbal/math/analytic - each had a max of 800. the (humanities) programs i was applying for were looking for over a 90th%-ile in verbal and analytic and something barely coherent in math. |
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| JD8180 |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
My wife is studying for the GMAT now too. I looked through the material and I honestly have no idea how it's much different from the GRE. They are just scored differently; each of the GRE's sections- math, verbal, analytical- having 800 attainable points (most schools i think combine m+v with the analytical score the deciding factor if there is stiff competition between applicants. Some schools let you combine the two of your choice). She's trying for a Masters in accounting, and for admittance they want to use a formula like, GPA x 100 + GMAT score for a total of at least 750. So if you have a 4.0 gpa for example, you can probably show up drunk for the GMAT and do well enough. |
I'm sure if she's using books she already has knowledge of this, but the GMAT is set up in a way that if you do the bare minimum of studying, you should have no trouble hitting a 500. 500 is average and the adaptive tests chooses easier questions if you're doing bad to hopefully let you hit at least 500. Unless your wife sucked and had a crappy GPA, having a combined score of 750 should be really easy and I'd tell her not to stress the GMAT then.
In exactly 2 months from today I will have my masters in accounting, tell her some random guy from the internet says it's not too bad. (I also got my bachelors in it, and found the bachelors a lot more difficult) |
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