Comments on: The teacher becomes the student http://www.prepoceros.com/2005/11/27/the-teacher-becomes-the-student/ Horn o'plenty. A cornucopia, if you will. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: RDW http://www.prepoceros.com/2005/11/27/the-teacher-becomes-the-student/comment-page-1/#comment-72 RDW Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:36:27 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/?p=75#comment-72 I HATE the GRE! I completely bombed it the other day with scores so horrible -- I won't even tell you how bad they were. (Oh God, they are sad.) The GRE is NOT an accurate way to judge a persons intellect. ETS is a crappy company that doesn't have to pay taxes. I hope the "master minds" behind the general test catch crabs! I HATE the GRE! I completely bombed it the other day with scores so horrible — I won’t even tell you how bad they were. (Oh God, they are sad.) The GRE is NOT an accurate way to judge a persons intellect. ETS is a crappy company that doesn’t have to pay taxes. I hope the “master minds” behind the general test catch crabs!

]]> By: Natalie http://www.prepoceros.com/2005/11/27/the-teacher-becomes-the-student/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Natalie Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:16:30 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/?p=75#comment-71 It really looks easier? I've heard they're making it harder (as I think they should, at least on the math); I certainly won't miss the antonyms and analogies. Maybe you would've gotten to the hard questions if it had been adaptive. Either way, for 115 bucks I'll take whatever test they care to give me. It really looks easier? I’ve heard they’re making it harder (as I think they should, at least on the math); I certainly won’t miss the antonyms and analogies. Maybe you would’ve gotten to the hard questions if it had been adaptive. Either way, for 115 bucks I’ll take whatever test they care to give me.

]]> By: Jenni http://www.prepoceros.com/2005/11/27/the-teacher-becomes-the-student/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Jenni Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:01:39 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/?p=75#comment-70 Okay, first of all, I GRE resent you. I got 720 on the math first time, perfect on the writing....not so hot on the verbal, which is unfortunately so important seeing as I major in ENGLISH. I don't know what the problem was. Seriously, if I don't get 700 or above on the verbal when I retake the test I'm going to jam the pencil they provide into my eyeball. Also, I took that field test study and it's pretty bogus. Bogus in that it can't really be considered a practice for the real GRE because it's so completely different. The verbal section has NO antonyms, NO analogies...there's more reading comprehension and fill in the blank. For the math part, you get a little calculator. Also, at the end, you don't get a real score, just what percentage you got on each of the four sections. The field test study is not a CAT either....the questions don't get harder or easier and you can go back and review previous questions. Makes me wish I was taking the GRE a couple of years from now, looks like it's going to be a lot easier. Okay, first of all, I GRE resent you. I got 720 on the math first time, perfect on the writing….not so hot on the verbal, which is unfortunately so important seeing as I major in ENGLISH. I don’t know what the problem was. Seriously, if I don’t get 700 or above on the verbal when I retake the test I’m going to jam the pencil they provide into my eyeball.

Also, I took that field test study and it’s pretty bogus. Bogus in that it can’t really be considered a practice for the real GRE because it’s so completely different. The verbal section has NO antonyms, NO analogies…there’s more reading comprehension and fill in the blank. For the math part, you get a little calculator. Also, at the end, you don’t get a real score, just what percentage you got on each of the four sections.

The field test study is not a CAT either….the questions don’t get harder or easier and you can go back and review previous questions.

Makes me wish I was taking the GRE a couple of years from now, looks like it’s going to be a lot easier.

]]> By: Natalie http://www.prepoceros.com/2005/11/27/the-teacher-becomes-the-student/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Natalie Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:06:58 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/?p=75#comment-69 Good to hear I'm not alone. Hopefully grad schools understand how skewed the scoring is. I just took another practice test. Same thing for Quantitative---800 and 92nd percentile, but this time in Verbal I was at the 96th percentile, and it was a *690*. You. Have. Got. To. Be. Fucking. Kidding. This is ridiculous. Good to hear I’m not alone. Hopefully grad schools understand how skewed the scoring is.

I just took another practice test. Same thing for Quantitative—800 and 92nd percentile, but this time in Verbal I was at the 96th percentile, and it was a *690*. You. Have. Got. To. Be. Fucking. Kidding.

This is ridiculous.

]]> By: Alan http://www.prepoceros.com/2005/11/27/the-teacher-becomes-the-student/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Alan Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:58:42 +0000 http://prepoceros.com/?p=75#comment-68 Yeah, I too hate the GRE percentile curve. With the Quantitative percentiles the way they are, the test is clearly designed for English majors. There's practically nothing I like about ETS and the GRE: since every test is "unique" due to the adaptive testing, ETS are not ever required to release the answers, and no one will know if someone made a typo and misgrades a question. Moreover, since you have to sign an NDA with them before you take the test, you are not allowed to tell other people if you suspect a question has a mistake in it. ETS comes off as being weak by hiding from and supressing any possible mistakes they might make, and lazy by reusing the same questions year after year. Since the whole thing is computerized, I really can't justify the $115, either. $80 or so should be more than enough to cover the salaries of the two people you talk to, the electricity bill, and the two people who read your essays. Stupid fat-cats! Yeah, I too hate the GRE percentile curve. With the Quantitative percentiles the way they are, the test is clearly designed for English majors. There’s practically nothing I like about ETS and the GRE: since every test is “unique” due to the adaptive testing, ETS are not ever required to release the answers, and no one will know if someone made a typo and misgrades a question. Moreover, since you have to sign an NDA with them before you take the test, you are not allowed to tell other people if you suspect a question has a mistake in it. ETS comes off as being weak by hiding from and supressing any possible mistakes they might make, and lazy by reusing the same questions year after year. Since the whole thing is computerized, I really can’t justify the $115, either. $80 or so should be more than enough to cover the salaries of the two people you talk to, the electricity bill, and the two people who read your essays. Stupid fat-cats!

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