I am taking the GRE General test in 2 weeks. It is not coming as naturally to me as the LSAT. In fact, for awhile I have thought that my practice scores are unexpectedly bad. I just took one an hour ago and got 570 on verbal (78th percentile) and 600 on math (53rd percentile). (No grade for the writing section, but I like to think that it would have brought me up a bit.) But then I checked out some of the score reports that the Powerprep software offered:
So my scores are above average for “Library and Archival Science” master’s students. I also noticed this:
(Sorry, to lazy to make these ones look nicer.) Which clearly proves that philosophy is the most intelligent discipline in the humanities!

tags: education

Concentrating in philosophy has prepared me for only one section on the GREs, and seemingly the least important one in terms of graduate school admissions. I am almost positive that my vocabulary and my basic algebra and geometry skills are worse than when I had just graduated high school, not that they were ever that great. Bah humbug. I guess this will all be an experiment in how much studying can help improve my score.

tags: brown, education