Well, it's over...

[thanate]

For those of you who care, I scored an embarrassing 620 on verbal and 730 on math, with essays yet to be scored... I was having a bad analogy day. Although my math score on the SAT was higher, too, and I got the same number of questions wrong on each part... go figure. But while this may look sadly low to me, it's still far above average, and I shouldn't need to worry about retaking anything unless I'm trying to apply for academic scholarships, which I don't need to worry about this week, at any rate. Instead I should be worrying about what to do with the rest of my day... I mean, there's so much of it left...

--Ok, according to the GRE publications, this is 87th percentile for verbal, and about 75th for math, which makes a bit more sense. Though why, if they're going to mess with the scoring anyway, they don't make it percentile-based in some way, I thoroughly don't understand.

Comments

[greta-k.livejournal.com]

I took the GRE years ago, and I think I lost brain cells when I did it. You may be embarrased by your score, but you did a good job. Yeah!

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Thanks; I don't know about brain cells, but they had one of those lovely almost-strobing monitors, which I couldn't push back far enough for it to be comfortable to look at. And I'm only embarrassed by the verbal part-- given that I ran short of time on the math and there were two questions on which I totally gave up and guessed, one I'm sure I got wrong, and one where I didn't even get a chance to click on a random answer before it timed me out, I'm kind of surprised I did as well as I did.

[skittblink.livejournal.com]

They give standardized tests on computers now? That is absolutely horrifying. What's wrong with the bubble sheets?

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Instant feedback! scantron forms have to be run through a machine first.

And the computer tests modify themselves to customize the difficulty of the questions to the level at which you're answering them.