Just finished taking the GRE exam...I feel like I gave birth...

[SaveElmer]

Or at least how women tell me giving birth feels!!!

I can now safely get drunk!!!

[CreekDog]

1. i took it on my birthday some years back

and it was the worst birthday i've ever had thanks to it.

1) the school flooded that morning due to heavy rains
2) i was sent to the wrong classroom and after being there for a while, 5 minutes before the test started, i was kicked out because my name wasn't on their list, i said, "where do i go," they said, "i don't know but you can't stay here"
3) went back to flooded registration and they sent me to a new room
4) got the last seat in the new room, below a blown out window (it was Dec. 12th)...i shivered so much that i had trouble filling in the dots.

it was a horrible experience, i did get into grad school, though i vowed that if my performance on that test kept me out of any school, that i'd rather not go there than take it again. too bad CU Boulder, i wasn't as dumb as you thought. thanks UA Tucson!

on the way out of the test, nobody spoke a word, not a peep --it was dead silence (and we're talking a school full of people).

[SaveElmer]

2. Things are high tech now...

Took the whole thing on the computer...it gave me my verbal and math scores right away...

Still a harrowing experience...

[EFerrari]

3. My GRE showed I should never be an air traffic controller

and my English school didn't mind in the least.

:toast:

[SaveElmer]

4. Yeah hopefully the history department...

Doesn't care I haven't progressed beyond a C in high school math!!!

:-)

[CTyankee]

5. Mercifully, my graduate program did not require the GRE.

I did a MALS program. Liberal Studies students aren't known for their math skills.

Years later I "took" the verbal Section of the GRE. I was an ESOL tutor at the time and my Chinese students, who all had advanced degrees from China, were interested in taking the GRE verbal. So I got the practice books and "took" the verbal section. I did very well but it was quite difficult and I told my students it would require a lot of them. I never found out if any of them took it!

[SaveElmer]

6. Yeah I don't really understand the point...

I have my masters that I earned from the same school and same department that I am applying to the PhD program for. They didn't make me take the GRE to get into the masters program...but are now...

Very weird....I'm just happy I got it over with

[CTyankee]

7. What is your doctorate in? n/t

[SaveElmer]

8. American History...hopefully...

Assuming I get accepted!

[CTyankee]

9. Good luck! Do you have a particular era that is your specialty? n/t

[SaveElmer]

12. Thanks!

Jacksonian is my primary interest...

[CTyankee]

13. Interesting era! The rise of the political parties. I had one grad course

that covered the era just after the Rev. War to 1840. It was a fascinating period. I loved the course. I studied the role of women in the post Revolutionary War era and that was an eye opener (particularly the decline of fertility of white women in the mid Atlantic colonies, as a result of revolutionary rhetoric). I'd love to go back and do another course on the Jackson era and rise of political parties.

[EFerrari]

16. The committee that determined my acceptance rather enjoyed

my math score than otherwise. They related, lol!

In fact, they were sort of surprised that I did so well in Algebra. Beyond algebra, there be dragons.

:)

[Bucky]

10. Yes, getting drunk is the best way to wind down after some childbirth.

How soon will you know if you've got a bouncing PhD to care for?

[SaveElmer]

11. Probably not until March or so...

Application not due until Jan 15th...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. I took it many years ago, and it sucked.

It especially sucked because I also felt like hell because I was coming down with one of those highly unpleasant and contagious Asian flu viruses (this was the epidemic of 1968-69 and everybody in my dorm got it). The day after the exam I couldn't get out of bed.

Strangely, I got pretty good scores, maybe because I was too sick to stress out about it.

[Xipe Totec]

15. You did go in well fed,

and had food and drink in your satchel, right?

Or did nobody tell you this is an endurance test?