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Jun. 7th, 2009 07:29 pmI have found the flaw in my 'take the practice GRE; base studying needs on that score' which is, I have no idea what GRE scores I need, because (a) graduate schools mostly don't publish statistics on their applicants' GRE scores and (b) percentile ranks mean nothing, given the higher degree of specialization among people applying to graduate school as opposed to, say, people applying to college.
As long as I'm ranting about the GRE: Dear ETS, the scores you give on the GRE are made up, in the sense that a raw score does not immediately indicate what the scaled score will be without reference to standardization tables. As long as you were making up scores, why did you not make up some scores that made sense? (In other words: STANDARD DEVIATION, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?) We won't even go into the fact that on the two subtests that make up the GRE, the scaled scores mean different things, in that a 700V has a different percentile ranking than a 700Q, and whose bright idea was that?
Seriously, though. 620V/730Q. What does that mean?
As long as I'm ranting about the GRE: Dear ETS, the scores you give on the GRE are made up, in the sense that a raw score does not immediately indicate what the scaled score will be without reference to standardization tables. As long as you were making up scores, why did you not make up some scores that made sense? (In other words: STANDARD DEVIATION, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?) We won't even go into the fact that on the two subtests that make up the GRE, the scaled scores mean different things, in that a 700V has a different percentile ranking than a 700Q, and whose bright idea was that?
Seriously, though. 620V/730Q. What does that mean?