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- From: SKH4161@MVS.draper.com (Kjeld Hvatum)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Gre scores
- Message-ID: <19930127090426SKH4161@MVS.draper.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:04:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.072142.6847@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.072142.6847@netcom.com>,
- johnwu@netcom.com (John M. Wu) writes:
-
- >In article <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
- >>It has been my impression as well that the analytical score is widely
- >>ignored. But I do wonder why that is so. At least superficially it
- >>would seem to me that this score would come closest to measuring an
- >>important inate ability ie. to reason logically quickly and
- >>accurately, while the verbal test essentially only measures vocabulary
- >>which anybody can acquire by reading and the quantitative test doesn't
- >>touch on anything which any reasonably awake eighth grader even in an
- >>american high school wouldn't have learned regardless of talent. Does
- >>anybody know ?
-
- The GRE Quantitative measure appears to be a little easier than
- the SAT Math, which is a sad commentary on the amount of math
- learned by the average college student. It even has a more
- "vocational" look (pie charts and sales graphs), instead of the
- more IQ-test like questions which pop up on the SAT Math. About
- 2% of GRE test-takers get the top scaled score of 800 on it.
-
- The Analytical measure, which became official only about ten
- years ago (the other two scales are over thirty years old),
- has always been a bit shakier than the other two measures in
- terms of reliability and susceptibility to coaching. Still,
- the puzzle questions which seem to dominate the GRE Analytical
- measure comprises all of the questions on half of the Law SAT
- (the LSAT version is a little harder). The validity correlations
- of the Analytical are about the same as Q or V alone.
- >
- >The verbal portion of the SAT/GRE measure how much reading a student has
- >done in the past by testing the student's vocabulary to the limits.
-
- I suppose it's not politically correct to say so, but in the
- statistical sense, it also measures your genes, as well as your
- economic background (which is related to how much good reading
- you're exposed to).
-