Anyone take the GREs? What were your scores?

[kick-ass-bob]

Mine:

780 math.
760 analytic.
520 verbal.

No wonder I can't speak!
:crazy:

[Goldmund]

1. You must have taken it a while ago...

I took mine just 3 weeks ago, and the analytical score scale is now 0-6, and you get to write two essays. Anyway, my scores were 800 quant/730 verbal/6.0 analytical.

[kick-ass-bob]

2. essays?

Holy crap that is different.
I didn't think I was that old
:cry:

[Goldmund]

4. yeah

I think they changed it 2 or 3 years ago. I actually like the old format better -- it tested your raw analytical skills, whereas when I was writing my essays I was saying to myself "thank god I've had DU posting practice", because it's all about being able to quickly write cogent arguments. I know many brilliant people who have great analytical minds, but can't sit down and write an essay in a half hour about a topic they don't give two shits about.

[libnnc]

3. I have to take them soon

did you study? If so for how long? I'm graduating with my BA this May and I want to start grad school this fall. I am totally clueless in these matters.

[Goldmund]

5. There's only one thing to study:

WORDS. Buy one of those Verbal GRE prep books and most of it isn't worth reading, but study VOCAB. I was scoring 590-600 in practice tests, then I spent 2 weeks studying words for about an hour each night, and I rang up my verbal score to 730.

[kick-ass-bob]

9. Absolutely, like the above poster said- words.

Buy a GRE book, take a few tests, see how you do.
But above all else STUDY WORDS!!

[RaleighNCDem]

6. I just took it...

680 Quant
520 Verbal
4 Writing

I should have studied more for the Verbal and Writing sections. I hope I can get into grad school.

:shrug:

[HereSince1628]

7. I did a bit better than you on verbal, but you blew the doors

off me in math, of course that was decades ago. my first try was my last try and I scored a low 600 (I think 620 on math I've succeeded in forgetting it) and a 680 in verbal. I know it barely made me qualified for an assistantship at Colorado State, my second choice for grad school. My combined math and verbal had me dead in the mid 80-ish percentile scores in the nation (analytic was just being started and there was no interpretation for it though I remember it as being in between the other 2 scores).

My Advanced Biology exam (taken the same day, in the summer of my junior year as a zoology student with NO botany and NO microbiology) was a 720.

For me that was the critical score since entry into the master's program I wanted was entirely dependent on getting at least into the 80th percentile on that test.

Now ask me about my Miller's Analogy score...Hah!

I knew you didn't dare... so I'll tell you anyway

My score was in the 99th percentile!

[kick-ass-bob]

8. Well, I was in Economics - I should be good in math!

And my verbal has always lagged way behind my math - so no surprises there!

Analogies?
Ugh - no thanks!