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Just a quick question, because I just took the GRE like a few hours ago. I was wondering what is considered a "good" score that would be a true asset to an application...
Thanks!
Thanks!
cyrille104 said:Just a quick question, because I just took the GRE like a few hours ago. I was wondering what is considered a "good" score that would be a true asset to an application...
Thanks!
From the schools that I looked up (Tufts, UPenn, VA-MD, Illinois) it seemed that the average GRE scores for attending students were Verbal- ~630-650, Quantitative- ~680-700, Analytical Writing- ~5. I would agree with youthman in that the average scores (or a bit above) would be a good measure of "strong" GRE scores for your application. You may want to look up the averages for schools that you are applying to also. Hope this helps!
Lisa
From the schools that I looked up (Tufts, UPenn, VA-MD, Illinois) it seemed that the average GRE scores for attending students were Verbal- ~630-650, Quantitative- ~680-700, Analytical Writing- ~5.
Penn average is V569 Q702 and they dont require the analytical. I believe that data is for the entering class (V'10), so 1271 total score if I did my math right. I think most schools generally accept lower verbal scores as long as your math is up. i.e. my verbal was low-ish (560) but I compensated with a great math score (780).
This may be part of your problem. In quite a bit of TA-ing I've observed that people who study by "memorizing" typically don't actually have a great *understanding* of the material. The GRE doesn't just want you to spit back a definition you memorized, they want you to evaluate shades of meaning (i.e. when there are several almost-right answers, which is the *best* one) and know how the words actually function in sentences. Also if they still do reading comprehension sections, all the memorized vocab in the world won't help you if you just aren't good at critical reading, pulling out main ideas and logical relationships in written passages, etc. (I'm the same way with math. My verbal score was way high 8 years ago, but I, for one, would *never* have seen the 180-degree phase shift in are-jay's example.)I memorized like 500 vocab words for the verbal