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- From: dal3@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (dale.e.parson)
- Subject: Re: Gre scores
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.162707.12113@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> <C1J7sB.E3q@cs.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:27:07 GMT
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- In article <C1J7sB.E3q@cs.columbia.edu> bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat) writes:
- >In article <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
- >>In article <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> owen-christopher@yale.edu (Christopher Owen) writes:
- >> In article <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> mjr4u@Virginia.EDU (Matthew Jerome Rush) writes:
- >> >How important is your analytical score? I did pretty average
- >> >on the first two, but got a 690 on what I like to call the
- >> >"Crossword Puzzle Book" section. Did that really help me get
- >> >into a good English program?
- >>
- >> This really depends. Some programs openly say that they don't consider the
- >> analytical score. Most psychology programs for instance claim that they
- >> don't even look at it (unlikely but that is what they say). My guess is
- >> that a good analytical score will of course help in english programs, but
- >> not all that much.
- >>
- >I consider the analytical part as a ridiculous. If you have a bag of tricks
- >you will be fine. The analytical part has the highest degree of error compared
- >to the other two. It may be more suitable to somebody who wants to be in
- >business?
- >
-
- I took the GRE when the analytical part was pretty new--there was no
- normalization of scores, it was called 'experimental'--and I hadn't
- yet programmed in PROLOG. It sounds like the test hasn't changed, so I'd
- say anybody that has written some fairly trivial PROLOG programs
- ought to do just fine. Play with PROLOG for a month or two, so you get
- the habit (habits are fast, deliberation is slow) of thinking like a
- PROLOG interpreter, and have a great time.
-
- Does this fact make the test itself trivial? Well, I think all timed
- tests are trivial, so for me the answer is no, the test is already
- trivial. As for the connection of PROLOG to logic/predicate calculus,
- I think it's fine to have something like formal logic in these
- asinine tests, probably even appropriate, but there's more to analytical
- thinking than chugging through well-formed-formulae with all the
- intelligence of an IBM PC. But then I'm not a test vendor.
-
-
- Dale Parson, Bell Labs, dale@mhcnet.att.com
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