A motley medley of musings

[flamehail]

The GRE made be sad by giving me a second verbal section after I finished the math section and I thought I was getting to go home. And I don't know if that one was scored or the first one, so boo

Comments

[geniusash]

With that score you do not need to take it again! Especially a 760 on the verbal, fantastic! That must be like 99th percentile, no? Because 670 is 96% (or was on my test...)

I applied to OSU Tulsa (mostly) yesterday. It was so easy!

[flamehail]

Oh, really? I thought maybe altogether it wasn't very good. Hmm. We'll see what the percentiles say. Yay!

Oh, I guess I should have sent them my scores, huh? Oops. Do they want them/will I need to arrange for an extra report to head that way? Maybe I'll try applying today, too. It still perhaps is the soundest plan!

[hadavar_barak]

Yeah, 760 Verbal must place you at 99th; I got 720 last year and that was 98th. And since you're not an engineer, the math score should be more than sufficient for your grad school plans. (Question to no one in particular: Why are the math scores skewed so much more towards the high end than the Verbal scores are?)

And I'm sure your writing scores will be 6/6 as well. Sounds like you cleaned up :-) Congrats!

[volith]

The math scores skew high because the section has to be really easy (high school level) to only test things that liberal arts majors are expected to know. So for people who have taken higher level math courses (calculus and above) every semester in college, and who use higher level math in almost every other course they take, getting an 800 is nearly guaranteed

[flamehail]

That makes sense. Of course, giving all the math people 800s on the math section would really skew the composite scores. Hmph.

I never studied the root languages (or at least, not the ones that help, like Greek, Latin, and French--for some reason, most of the fancy words are the non-Germanic ones ^_^), but I suspect that liberal arts majors tend to read more than science and engineering ones. Even if an s&e student loves to read and does so in his spare time, he's not doing so for class--that is, a liberal arts major's spare time and working time may go to reading, while only an s&e major's spare time does. Reading lots of erudite texts carefully is probably the real key to the verbal section, as that sort of thing assists in reading comprehension and sentence awareness (or whatever they call those fill-in-the-blank ones--that is, not just the mere definition of the word or even its connotations, but how it works with other words in a sentence (catching double negatives, for instance) and how those other words define a meaning even

[flamehail]

Oh, good. Yay, that makes me feel better. And I think Vanessa's right--it's not fair, but on the other hand, let's just say that I knew I had the answers for exactly two questions on the 45-minute math section...absolutely every other question was a guess of varying degrees of wildness. So it works for me, which is good, I guess, as I am for whom the system was designed (I'm pretty sure perhaps the ETS people just don't really care about math people).

I'm worried about the first essay, but I'm pretty sure I rocked the second one. So we'll see! Thanks, David! ^_^ Hope you are well!

[fourwordsapart]

don't worry, this entire campus is infested! lovely!

good job on the GRE!

[flamehail]

THEY'RE GROSS. I FOUND ANOTHER ONE YESTERDAY (it almost landed on the quesodilla I was cooking, ew ew ew). I WANT THEM TO GO AWAY.

Yay, thanks! ^_^

[thursday63]

You're in a campus apartment, right? If your neighbors don't keep their apartment clean, they can get roaches which then migrate between units. Ask Gordon Wilson to spray -- he's got stuff that can be used in kitchens.

[flamehail]

Hmm. This could well be the cause. I might give him a call--especially if I keep finding them. -_-