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ruled the GRE!
Oct. 24th, 2006 09:53 pmThe computer-based test has one huge advantage over the paper tests of my youth. Well, okay, it has several, but the biggest one right now is that it tells you whether you completely blew the sides off the test. (Or, you know, not, but I didn't experience that.) Subject to verification blah de blah, I got the maximum score: 800 math and 800 verbal.
I so totally kick ass.
The essays are graded by actual humans, which is I think still a good plan, esp. considering the Windows-3.1 look of the test software. I had to sign agreements promising dire consequences if I reveal any of the test questions, but it was definitely an "on" writing day and I managed to mention Egyptian crocodile-dung pessaries. If nothing else, the grader is going to laugh and pass that one around. I had fun with my extended examination of software design in the opinion essay, too.
Fun bonus: A beta-testing section, not included in the grade, which I figured was just going to be some questions in the same formats that they hadn't used before. Not so; there was a whole extra tutorial on how to use the calculator tool, how to move values to boxes by clicking, how to use a poorly implemented table thing that worked like radio buttons, and how to use the TICKYBOXES. There were tickyboxes on the GRE! In their honor, I give you a poll:
[Poll #852674]
I so totally kick ass.
The essays are graded by actual humans, which is I think still a good plan, esp. considering the Windows-3.1 look of the test software. I had to sign agreements promising dire consequences if I reveal any of the test questions, but it was definitely an "on" writing day and I managed to mention Egyptian crocodile-dung pessaries. If nothing else, the grader is going to laugh and pass that one around. I had fun with my extended examination of software design in the opinion essay, too.
Fun bonus: A beta-testing section, not included in the grade, which I figured was just going to be some questions in the same formats that they hadn't used before. Not so; there was a whole extra tutorial on how to use the calculator tool, how to move values to boxes by clicking, how to use a poorly implemented table thing that worked like radio buttons, and how to use the TICKYBOXES. There were tickyboxes on the GRE! In their honor, I give you a poll:
[Poll #852674]
