GREs

[etherial]

Just got back my GRE scores.

Verbal 610/800 (87th percentile)
Quantitatve 800/800 (94th percentile)
Analytical 6.0/6 (96th percentile)

I'm amazed I got 6s on the writing, I was seriously expecting scores in the 4 and 5 range. People don't generally seem to like my writing style, and spelling and grammar (of which mine is exquisite) aren't counted. I'm rather annoyed by the verbal scoring. I have an extensive vocabulary, yet most of the questions involved words even I didn't know, most of which lacked obvious greek or latin roots.

Comments

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

good scores. Congrats.

[tpau]

nto everythignin english comes from greek/latin. so much si german or french or norse...

but yay on goodness in writing

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Good job,, dude.

[teenyweenyowen.livejournal.com]

Very nice scores.

[doc-smiley.livejournal.com]

excellent, congrats!

[stillking.livejournal.com]

a 100-point split is considered 'standard' -- that is to say, subjects who receive, for example, 600 verbal 700 quant, are considered to be equally-balanced between both disciplines.

800 quant is very impressive, and considerably better than mine. =)

-- sven

[stillking.livejournal.com]

er, a 100-pt-split with math/quant being higher, i mean.
hopefully that came across more clearly than was scribed.

-- sven

re: standard

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Does that make me unhinged, then?

I was pretty surprised about the 800, as I know for a fact that I got one question wrong.

[oldest-song.livejournal.com]

Nice! Where are you applying?

Hey, we should talk about that LARP thing. :)

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I've been looking at some of the best teaching programs in the area and, mostly for nostalgia, WPI.

PS - definitely. princess_muffin had some good ideas as to how to make the game viable. We also have a deadline. The game has to be written (GM goal shared by shogunhb and myself) and bid (practical deadline due to 'Con registration schedule) by 10/24. Ideally, this means we can run a dry run at WPI or somesuch during Nov/Dec/Jan and do a rewrite during February.

[oldest-song.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Good luck!

Can you send out an email to the writers, just to start up the thread? I'm going to try to make New Year's - maybe we can do the dry run late Dec?

[naweiner.livejournal.com]

congrats! :D