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I took the GRE back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. My impression at the time, having studied engineering and applied mathematics at a very demanding university, was that the quantitative part of the GRE was too easy. Lots of kids with my kind of background scored 760-800 on the quantitative part. We all clumped at the top, which evidently still holds true according to the graph above.
But if the Q test had been any harder, very few humanities students would have made a good Q score -- the differences in Q ability are/were just too great. To anticipate the obvious question: yes, I also scored very high on the verbal test (high enough to qualify for graduate study in liberal arts at an Ivy League school, had I chosen to take that path; bully for me ? ), but not as high as on the quantitative.
I took the GRE back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. My impression at the time, having studied engineering and applied mathematics at a very demanding university, was that the quantitative part of the GRE was too easy. Lots of kids with my kind of background scored 760-800 on the quantitative part. We all clumped at the top, which evidently still holds true according to the graph above.
But if the Q test had been any harder, very few humanities students would have made a good Q score -- the differences in Q ability are/were just too great. To anticipate the obvious question: yes, I also scored very high on the verbal test (high enough to qualify for graduate study in liberal arts at an Ivy League school, had I chosen to take that path; bully for me ? ), but not as high as on the quantitative.
All my friends got 780~800 in Q too. In fact only one got 780 and the others 790~800.
When I was in graduate school, a student from China got 800Q, 760V and 800A. At that time there were three sections. He's still doing post doc though... academics ruin people's life lol
I took the GRE in 2000, back when it was 800 possible points each for V, Q, and A on the computer. I remember the analytical part frying my brain. Got a 750 on that part, but I had to sit in my car with what must have been a dumb look on my face for quite a while to remember how to drive when it was all over. I could almost hear the sizzle.
Edit: my roommate got less than half my score on the test, yet we got the same assistantship package for MS studies. Ah well!
Moral of the story: the tests rarely mean squat except to a school looking to bolster its ranking on the US News and World Report annual thingy about skools.
Lots of kids with my kind of background scored 760-800 on the quantitative part. We all clumped at the top, which evidently still holds true according to the graph above.
Hm. Perhaps it is too easy if it's been a long trend like that.
Is there any utility to the SAT subject test in math? Looks like only 11% scored a perfect 800.
The distribution curves for math and verbal are highly dissimilar.
If you get a 750 in Math, BFD ... you and many, many people.
If you get a 750 in Verbal, you're in an elite group.
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? ), but not as high as on the quantitative.
