Calling all people who have *taken* the GRE

[maiabee8]

What's a good score on the GRE? How accurate are the scores they give you at the end of the test?

Comments

[lefthand.livejournal.com]

1250 Verb & Quant is Mensa Qualified. It's how I got in.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

The scores they give you at the end are the scores.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to wait for the analytical, of course, but the verbal and quantitative are scored immediately.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I took the GRE so long ago, it was on paper instead of on a computer. They didn't give you your scores right away. There were three parts, but the "Analytical" section was not an essay test, it was another multiple-choice test with logic-based questions.

According to the GRE website's official Guide to the Use of GRE Scores, in recent years (2001 through 2004) a perfect Quantitative score of 800 will give you a percentile of only 92; but you can get as low as a 740 Verbal and still be in the 99 percentile.

700 Verbal is the 96th percentile; 700 Quantitative is the 68th percentile.
600 Verbal is still pretty good -- the 84th percentile -- but 600 Quantitative puts you down in the 46th percentile.

Did you take any Subject Tests, too?

[maiabee8.livejournal.com]

nope, none are necessary or even in my subject area

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I've been hopping around various university websites, trying to see what GREs are required by anthropology graduate schools. Almost nobody wants to commit to a cutoff score (wimps!), but a few will give averages:

* Rutgers: average 558 Verbal and 644 Quantitative
* University of Maryland: 1210 average Verbal+Quantitative
* George Washington University: 1200 average Verbal+Quantitative
* Cornell University: average 652 Verbal and 653 Quantitative, "The GRE scores of fellowship winners in anthropology average well above 700 in the verbal test."
* Duke: "The average GRE scores for the Fall 2006 entering cohort are: Verbal: 686 (range 620-730); Quantitative - 640 (range 540-770); Analytic Writing: 5.5 (range 5.0-6.0); Analytic: 590; GPA: 3.9"
* Mizzou: "Minimum GRE Score is V+Q = 1000 or more, A = 3.0"