<p>Hi</p>
<p>Not that I got this score, but I was just wondering.</p>
<p>Suppose someone gets 1600. Although the score isn’t relevant to anything, it is a remarkable achievement. </p>
<p>Could it be a line under “extra curriculars” or something? e.g.</p>
<p>2005: President of Student Association XYZ
2006: 1600/1600 on the Graduate Records Examination
2007: Poster Presenter, ABC Conference</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>my gut feeling is a “no” … it’s kind of like posting an IQ or something.</p>
<p>I would say no because they will look at your GRE official scores anyway even if its not on the resume. It is like telling them something twice or repeating it to them.</p>
<p>First of all, 1600/1600 isn’t actually a (valid) score…no such thing. 800/800/6.0 would be, as would 800/800/6.0/800 (e.g., perfect general + perfect subject)</p>
<p>Second… yeah, not appropriate. Putting it on your resume wouldn’t win you anything but laughter… and a poor first impression.</p>
<p>It definitely wouldn’t be something you’d put on a r</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know what composite scores would be like, but since the questions are completely randomized for each person, I imagine the statistics aren’t as good as on a test like the SAT where there’s so many more people taking it. I’d probably also feel better about my Math score since it’s pretty darned poor for an engineer, but my verbal and writing were the best of my friends. :p</p>
<p>It would be interesting to see the correlations across the various scores, though. Like, to people doing well on math typically do poorly on the other sections? Is the verbal score heavily correlated to the writing score?</p>
<p>Absolutely not. Your graduate school is getting the score anyway, and no one else cares what your GRE score was.</p>
<p>I agree - don’t do it. It doesn’t add anything to your resume, and could come across as slightly conceited.</p>
<p>I agree with everyone here - No.</p>
<p>Unanimous: NO!</p>
<p>Though it may be somewhat off-topic, I think what Racinreaver was talking about would be very interesting to learn about. I work for a company that teaches test prep stuff (I won’t name them) and I wonder if they have stats on this. I, of course, am a peon and don’t have access to such information. Datamining is such a huge industry these days, that I’m sure someone has that info somewhere. </p>
<p>Not to brag at all, but I got a 740Q and 670V and 5.0AW, which put me in 81, 95, and 77 percentiles, respectively. I was a little let down on AW, but so be it. Even so, I wonder where that would put me overall? Not that it makes a bit of difference in the real world, but I wonder if that puts me in the 90th percentile? To teach for the company I work for, you have to score above the 90th percentile on a given standardized test. My mean percentile is only 84. </p>
<p>I dunno, I guess I’m just curious, knowing that I qualified on the ACT and SAT, and people teaching the LSAT and MCAT get those percentiles outright. The GRE isn’t so straightforward.</p>
<p>carlstreator, my guess would be that you would have to be at the 90th %ile in each subtest you hope to teach (which would be quite rare). I had a 760Q/660V/5.5AWA/780Subject, resulting in percentiles of 94, 86, 90, and 97 (mean of 90 straight for the general + 97th for the subject). I applied for PR, which has the 90th percentile req’t, and was told they didn’t have any openings at that time but to reapply later. I’m not really sure whether I would have qualified to teach the GRE, though, since I guess they hire everyone to teach the SAT initially and then you get the other “certifications” later.</p>
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<p>LOL. Yeah - that would be a good one. Which of the following lines don’t belong:</p>
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<p>Joe Smith </p>
<p>BA with Distinction, ABZ College</p>
<p>President, ABC Student Association
I.Q. of 134
Guest Speaker, Rotary Club</p>
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<p>LOL. although i don’t think posting a GRE score is as bad as an IQ score, i can understand it being a pretty big no-no.</p>
<p>anyways - thought it was a fun question to ask.</p>
<p>They’re both pretty bad. </p>
<p>The point of a resume / CV is to show what you have done, not what you can do. Standardized tests (including IQ tests) are a measure of potential. </p>
<p>Posting your potential next to your accomplishments could also backfire. As I posted in another thread, if two people, one with an IQ of 125 and one with an IQ of 175, both walk into an interview/application with identical accomplishments, the person with the lower IQ comes across better.</p>
<p>To those wondering about the percentile ranks in added GRE scores – I don’t think that they are computed because they’re relatively meaningless, in the grand scheme of things. For example, I got a 740Q, 790V, 6.0AW. The 740Q puts me in the 82nd percentile for math, but the 790 puts me in the 99th percentile for the verbal, and the AW score is the 96th. The mean percentile (not that that’s the correct way to do this, but let’s just put it) rank for me would be a 92nd percentile. But that doesn’t give my evaluators any really meaningful information – it exaggerates my competence in math and underestimates my competence in the verbal fields.</p>
<p>And apumic is right about the 90th percentile in different subtests. I worked for Kaplan for a year or so and I only taught the writing and critical reading parts – I got above a 90th percentile on my SAT in verbal (and I took an institutional version of the writing exam to be qualified to teach that, since they didn’t have the writing part when most of us went to college) but since I was only in the 80s for the math, I just didn’t teach that. Same goes for the GRE teaching.</p>
<p>juillet, what we’re talking about is if they make combined percentiles. As in, how many people that get >750 on the math also get >700 on the verbal.</p>
<p>racinreaver is on to what i was asking. of course you get the percentiles for individual sections…but for example, i highly doubt that people who get 800 on Quant also get 700 on Verbal…or vice versa…so would a 1500 be 98th percentile, and 1400 90th percentile…something like that. I could add my percentiles and get the mean, but I don’t think that’s a proper gauge either. I’d be willing to bet that a 1400 overall score is a higher percentile than if I added my percentiles, for example; the mean is 88th, but I think it’s probably higher than that, as not all test takers score high on both parts.</p>
<p>When I took the test back in 2007, I received 800Q/800V/6W. I do not currently have that on my resume, nor should it be, it’s not relevant for most jobs you apply for, not to mention, most HR people would have no clue what it is, nor what it means. I have, however, put all of my scores (SAT, GRE, MCAT, Mensa, etc…) on my resume once or twice when applying for specialized jobs for think-tanks or research firms because they may have found it relevant, that’s it.</p>
<p>Even if the HR people had a clue as to what the GRE is they might never have taken the GRE or, even worse, scored an 1100/1600.</p>
<p>What I’m saying is, why does it even matter? What kind of meaningful information is to to know how many people who got a 700+ in the math section also got a 700+ in the quant section?</p>