GRE

[fox]

who thinks i should retake the GRE?

i took it in december of 1999, so the scores should still be valid:

V 650, 92nd percentile
Q 720, 80th percentile
A 690, 84th percentile

that's not how they're scoring anymore, but still. thing is, i don't like those percentiles with eights in them. anyone have thoughts?

Comments

[thalia]

Hmm... How much prep did you do for the first time? And how rusty have your math skills gotten? I guarantee you can ace the analytical writing portion if you practice a little (I got 5.5/6.0 when I took the GMAT, and it wasn't hard), and you might have an advantage now since there's only the one math section instead of both quantitative and analytical. And that 650 in verbal... I suspect you could get that over 700. I'm sure you could on the GMAT, but I have no idea how the GRE verbal compares. (Oops, just checked, it's very different.) If you could afford to take a prep course--like, say, Kaplan, just for example [g]--you might be able to get your scores up quite a bit. But you probably shouldn't retake it if you're not going to do some serious prep.

You can download a practice GRE. Maybe you should give that a try and see how you do.

(I kind of miss the old GRE. I got 750/800/800 back in 1987; I'm tempted to have that score report framed. It's not good for anything now, though.)