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- From: johnwu@netcom.com (John M. Wu)
- Subject: Re: Gre scores
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.072142.6847@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:21:42 GMT
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- 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 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.
- US high school and college students watch too much TV and party
- too much. Do you really want a grad student who hasn't read much
- in the last 8 years?
-
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