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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:55:52 -0400
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From: wayne brekhus <brekhus@rci.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: GRE Scores
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The GRE is a standardized test that is required to get into most graduate
programs in most fields.  It's sort of the graduate school version of the
SAT test which most people take to get into U.S. undergraduate colleges.
The main test has three sections (a verbal, a quantitative, and an analytic
section).  Each section is scored on a scale of 200 (the lowest possible
score) to 800 (the highest possible) with 500 being a median score per
section for people taking the test.  Usually when people refer to GRE's
scores, however, they only add the verbal and quantitative sections.  Thus,
for instance if someone scores a 580 on the Verbal and a 620 on the
Quantitative their GRE score is a 1200. 


At 09:41 AM 6/14/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Excuse my ignorance here, but what on earth is a GRE score? 
>
>Julie
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