GRE Examination
I did my GREs on Wednesday in London, after having made a decision to apply for graduate school while I was in Hong Kong, and signing up for the test at the office, there and then. All in all, I found the actual test quite tough, and I especially had a problem in managing time - I ran out of time in the math section, though I still managed to finish all the questions. This was rather surprising - I had managed to finish off all the questions in the 3 practice exams that I had done, 2 of them provided by GRE itself, but I was mightly realived when it was all over.
Since it was computer based testing, they gave me my scores at the end of all of it - I had a 660 for verbal and a 750 for maths. I had been hoping for a slighly higher verbal score since I though I had done pretty decently for that section, but I was well pleased with how the math score turned out, seeing that I had thought I had done far worse than that score suggests. In the practice test I did, I scored similarly on both those sections, and that equated to eing in the 95th percentile for verbal and the 86th percentile for the maths, so I am definitely hopeful that it will be the same in this case.
I found out at the end of the test that you have to nominate 4 Universities to have your results sent to right there on the spot. I had roughly chose mine, but was still considering a back up option. In the end I put down Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Georgetown - all wonderful universities, but perhaps also speaking of a great deal of hubris on my part. What annoyed me tremendously was that a payment of $10 is required for scores to sent to each further university. I might stick with these 4 and see how the rest of things turn out.
So, all in all, things turned out pretty good, though I hasten to qualify this remark until my full score report comes in the post, including the two writing sections. Considering I had taken the test a mere 2 days after coming in from Singapore, had done pretty minimal practice all things considered, and that I ran out of time in most of the sections, I should be pretty pleased irregardless.
Since it was computer based testing, they gave me my scores at the end of all of it - I had a 660 for verbal and a 750 for maths. I had been hoping for a slighly higher verbal score since I though I had done pretty decently for that section, but I was well pleased with how the math score turned out, seeing that I had thought I had done far worse than that score suggests. In the practice test I did, I scored similarly on both those sections, and that equated to eing in the 95th percentile for verbal and the 86th percentile for the maths, so I am definitely hopeful that it will be the same in this case.
I found out at the end of the test that you have to nominate 4 Universities to have your results sent to right there on the spot. I had roughly chose mine, but was still considering a back up option. In the end I put down Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Georgetown - all wonderful universities, but perhaps also speaking of a great deal of hubris on my part. What annoyed me tremendously was that a payment of $10 is required for scores to sent to each further university. I might stick with these 4 and see how the rest of things turn out.
So, all in all, things turned out pretty good, though I hasten to qualify this remark until my full score report comes in the post, including the two writing sections. Considering I had taken the test a mere 2 days after coming in from Singapore, had done pretty minimal practice all things considered, and that I ran out of time in most of the sections, I should be pretty pleased irregardless.
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