Importance of GRE

larationalist
Thu, 03 May 2007 12:54:21 +0000

“But I doubt many committed grad school applicants do poorly on it because your score mainly depends on the amount of time and effort put into preparation.”

I disagree. As with every standardized test, it mostly shows how good you are at taking tests. And it shows whether or not you can write (to an extent, though scored very leniently), but it seems like many don’t even pay any attention to the writing section.

If you’re good at taking tests, just glance over the stuff they have on the GRE site so you can get a feel for the type of questions you’ll encounter. If you need more than that, study some vocabulary. By this point, either you can write or you can’t so don’t worry too hard about that, and the math is mostly logic, things that a 7th grade math teacher would have called “word problems.”