The end of the GRE...
Thursday morning i took a drive through the city. There was no real destination or stop in mind. The reality was that i had spent the last 24 hours staring at my computer attempting to understand various mathematical principles. Sadly, not even the explanations to the answers were making any sense. So i decided that the best thing for me to do was get in the car and just drive for a little while. Figured it was a better (not to mention safer) stress relief than drinking lots and lots of scotch. (though with the currect cost of gasoline it would have been cheaper to consume the scotch!) After my drive i returned to my twilight zone experience of studying for the GRE.
The test itself reared a rather ugly head and several times i had to fight the trained response to physically attack the threat. i found my hand subconsciously feeling for the area where my sidearm usually resides. Suppose the foresight that this stimuli/response action would occur thus leading me to leave the weapon in my car proved to be an intelligent move. i can only imagine the headlines... "Tulsa Police Officer Initiates Deadly Force on GRE Test... Officer stated that he was 'in fear for his life'."
At the conclusion of the test i was given my scores for the analytical and quantitative parts of the test. The scores were 600 and 590. The scores for the two essays won't come in for another two weeks. I have no clue how good or poor those scores are... however i was told that they were good for only having two days preperation, not to mention being two years out of college and not having had a math course in six years. To add insult to injury, i recieved a message from an admissions counselor in the grad program i'm looking into at OSU. She said that i could have taken the Millsat test instead. Apparently that test focuses more on the subject area that i am involved in. Chances are i would have done better on that test. Figures.
So here i am with a GRE under the belt, feeling much like a millstone has been removed from my back, and i decide that i need to treat myself. It is time for a present. i had the fortunate blessing to come into some money and figured i should put it to good use. There is no wife, not even a girlfriend in my life... no children... bills are being paid... figured now was the best time to buy myself an expensive gift. Hooked up with my buddy J who owns a cafe and a cigar store and spent a couple hours studying something that wasn't related to geometry, algebra, or some other form of math. Now J is like a role model of sorts for me. He owns two stores, has a beautiful wife pregnant with their second child, and has a lot of culture and class. Not to mention he is just an all around fun guy. We met up at his cigar shop and i proceeded to purchase a beautiful humidor. It is a dark red wood with a glass top and humidity gauge built into the front. It can hold roughly 125 cigars. Once we got the humidor squared away it was time to properly stock it. J picked out 18 different cigars, two of each, of various sizes, body, and countries. Some of the best cigars were from his own collection. We had a lesson on how to age cigars, and which types are the best with different meals, drinks, and temperatures. All in all, i'm set for a long time. Which is good because some of the cigars i got still need a couple more years of aging. i must say it was a great way to unwind after taking that horrendous GRE.
Now can someone smarter than me please tell me if those were decent scores?
The test itself reared a rather ugly head and several times i had to fight the trained response to physically attack the threat. i found my hand subconsciously feeling for the area where my sidearm usually resides. Suppose the foresight that this stimuli/response action would occur thus leading me to leave the weapon in my car proved to be an intelligent move. i can only imagine the headlines... "Tulsa Police Officer Initiates Deadly Force on GRE Test... Officer stated that he was 'in fear for his life'."
At the conclusion of the test i was given my scores for the analytical and quantitative parts of the test. The scores were 600 and 590. The scores for the two essays won't come in for another two weeks. I have no clue how good or poor those scores are... however i was told that they were good for only having two days preperation, not to mention being two years out of college and not having had a math course in six years. To add insult to injury, i recieved a message from an admissions counselor in the grad program i'm looking into at OSU. She said that i could have taken the Millsat test instead. Apparently that test focuses more on the subject area that i am involved in. Chances are i would have done better on that test. Figures.
So here i am with a GRE under the belt, feeling much like a millstone has been removed from my back, and i decide that i need to treat myself. It is time for a present. i had the fortunate blessing to come into some money and figured i should put it to good use. There is no wife, not even a girlfriend in my life... no children... bills are being paid... figured now was the best time to buy myself an expensive gift. Hooked up with my buddy J who owns a cafe and a cigar store and spent a couple hours studying something that wasn't related to geometry, algebra, or some other form of math. Now J is like a role model of sorts for me. He owns two stores, has a beautiful wife pregnant with their second child, and has a lot of culture and class. Not to mention he is just an all around fun guy. We met up at his cigar shop and i proceeded to purchase a beautiful humidor. It is a dark red wood with a glass top and humidity gauge built into the front. It can hold roughly 125 cigars. Once we got the humidor squared away it was time to properly stock it. J picked out 18 different cigars, two of each, of various sizes, body, and countries. Some of the best cigars were from his own collection. We had a lesson on how to age cigars, and which types are the best with different meals, drinks, and temperatures. All in all, i'm set for a long time. Which is good because some of the cigars i got still need a couple more years of aging. i must say it was a great way to unwind after taking that horrendous GRE.
Now can someone smarter than me please tell me if those were decent scores?
posted by Ida125 at 12:25 PM
21 Comments:
Dude, those are AWESOME scores. Your total combined for the math and verbal is 1150. Mine was around the 1200-1230 range. You could get in to the program at WSU with those scores. Very well done!
Now, DO NOT RETAKE THE TEST. I guarantee you that your scores will go down!
I can't tell you if the GRE scores are good or not, but I will tell you that I think the humidor and cigars are awesome! Congrats on finishing the first half of the GRE and I hope you enjoy one of those pretty babies you just purchased as a reward after the essay part of the GRE. Oh, and keep the kitties away too ;-)
Well if you'd paid attention to the math, you'd know if they were good scores.
... ohhhh sorry, had to do that to you :).
Are they good scores? Yup. Considering two days of studying, those are decent scores, and should be good enough for OSU. You could take it again if you want. But back to the math...
600/800 = 3/4 = .75 which in typical "school speak" is C (average or passing), solid.
That implies 590 is a littler lower than a .75.
If you add them up (600 + 590)/(800 + 800) = approximately 1200/1600, which is 3/4 approximately which is (recall the above formula) .75.
In other words: for two days of studying you did better than most grads fresh out of university. Although, this is granted that the GRE tests algebra and geometry skills (learned in high school, forgotten two days after graduation), and English skills (although it's easier if you'd had Latin, French, German, or Spanish given the "root word" curse of the analogies and synonym/antonym sections) learned in 8th grade.
I think the fact that you're an outstanding officer, and have a bachelor's degree will matter more to an admission's committee then the scores. The scores get your foot in the door, yes, so they're important. But I think you've got a good amount of foot in there for them to see you're other qualities. Don't worry so much about the test. But brush up on the math. Try this one:
A bank robber holds a cashier at gun point and steals four twenties, five hundreds, twelve ones, and three quarters. Her get away car has 4 gallons and has a gas mileage of 18 miles to the gallon. The Mexico border is 500 miles away. How many IQ points shy of "special" is she?
Bonus question: How many road block spikes will it take to burst the tires on her Ford POS?
-b&b... i enjoyed a cigar the next night at work... it was very nice. and the humidor has a lock to keep the evil kitties out.
quijote - the answer to the math question you posed is this...
she stole $592.75, which tells me that she probably robbed a bank because convenience stores generally don't have as much in the teller. Now because it was a bank she will have the FBI investigating it, and the charges will be federal instead of just state. Also, the security cameras will most likely be working, and of decent quality. Unlike a crummy gas station, where you won't get as much dough, but will have dummy video cameras and the FBI could care less if you robbed it. That right there lost her at least 15 IQ points.
Next, her Ford POS is giving her 18mpg, which will take her appx 10% of the way to the Mexico border, (note- 1% was deducted for her driving to her baby's daddy's section 8 apt first, and an additional 3% deducted for her driving north instead of south, temporarily fogetting which way Mexico actually is). This subtracts yet another 20 IQ points.
Now by this point the police and FBI have probably been able to find her (given she never bothered to cover her tag, and wrote the demand note on one of her social security check stubs -just lost another 10 points) and are preparing to spike her tires. Now in lane "A" is an old set of tire spikes. They are huge, bulky and seldom work. In lane "B" is a pair of the new "StopSticks." They are small, difficult to see, and work very well. Our suspect thinks she is smart, so she swerves to miss the road spikes, only to run right over the stop sticks. Because she still thinks she can outright the police cars AND the helicopter (-10 more points) she continues to drive on the rims (sigh). This cuts her gas mileage down to about 10mpg, pushing the Mexico border back another 482 miles from her current position (assuming she is now headed in the correct direction). She is quickly apprehended and when removed from the car promptly shouts, "i didn't do nuthin' why you harrassin' me!" when shown the stolen money and weapon she screams, "that not mine, i don't know how got there. i just borrowed the car from my baby daddy. he robbed the bank over on 31st."
all in all, i would put her at slightly below 2 standard deviations away from the norm.
(if the math questions on the GRE were written like THAT i would have aced it!)
Where to start... as R said... DUDE!!!! Those scores are AWESOME! My quantitative was a 450 and my analytical was a 590... now when I took the test 4 years ago we didn't have the essays... so my verbal was a 450 as well... I got into TU and Indiana Bloomington... I think I outscored you R on the total score... chalk one up for the Upperclass Lab Partner!!!
I loved the word problem that Q presented you with and your solution. Now being a female, I must ask this: How come you just ASSUME that the female driver drove the WRONG way at first???
Don't retake the test... whatever you do... have faith in yourself and your scores...
Mom will be getting with you to bring you something to keep you sane while you are "working" at night... (since we know that the dark side doesn't really work)
xoxoxo
Well, I think that they don't really go by percentage. mr. genius above got a 1200, soOOoo .. I might be wrong... but your score seems a lot better to me than just a C if you compare it to his. either way, the hot guy with the math skills is right: you did better than over half of those grads fresh out of college. Good job kiddo!!
hehe... that answer of yours made me laugh... you WOULD have aced a test like that one : ) !!
That. Was. Awesome.
Cap's Daughter: :)
In the interest of spreading gender equality, our Micro text book has consistently used "she" as the pronoun in questions for over 900 pages (probably the most fascinating aspect of this book, but that's another story). I did not mean to insult any opposite gender, rather promot equality adn understanding by placing the under represented female population in a situation where you would typically assume a male pronoun for generality. :-P
But given the nature of driving in these United States... I believe its a fair assumption that IDA made (awaiting retribution for this comment).
Wait... am I hot because of my math skills or am I hot along with my math skills?
Cause if its the former...
Pi over 2, baby. Pi over 2.
there was no thought of gender equality. i "assumed that the female driver drove the wrong way first" based on experience. i've worked too many wrecks and pulled over too many cars... i was merely going on the norm. (awaiting retribution along with Quijote)
oh, and Quijote... you are a sexy math beast.
LOL... you had to choose a "she" for the "special" example of gender equality?!? haha...
You're still hot. both because of and along with the math skills : )
Let's see... Ida, she robbed a bank because, as the question said, she is a bank robber : )
..And a kidnapper? hehe.. what's up with the demand note? maybe she kidnapped her baby..huh.. from herself? you know.. since she's probably not married to her baby's daddy, given that he apparently does not live with them?
Quijote, the question makes an erroneous assumption: she could have easily made it to the border on almost $600, provided she wasn't assumed to take the wrong direction and write the demand note (demand note?!?! hmm.. ok...I'll stretch it, maybe she's taking the baby away from the grandparents or something) on her SS check tab...
But we still like you guys... since you're hot. hehe... now Im the one waiting for retribution.. :-P
Well I for one can say that I have NEVER driven the wrong way... I just took a detour... or as R might call it, went on an adventure... at least I have never started out in Dallas headed to the Convention Center (for the opera or whatnot) and decided I should stop for directions about the time I started seeing signs that say "FT. WORTH city limits Pop. 481,791"
Besides, it is hard to get "lost" or "go the wrong direction" when you are driving on a loop around town... ultimately you are going to be back at square one!
Love you guys!
It was night, the highways were very busy, and on top of that the directions we got were wrong.
Plus it wasn't Ft. Worth. It was Arlington or something like that. But we did make it there on time.
Quijote... God gave us women to keep us humble. In my opinion they work too hard at it, but that is besides the point.
At least you made it there on time...
LOL !!!!!
That was awesome, Ms. Captain ; ) !!
Hehe... but yeah... we did make it on time to the Opera. Zero Killed.
And we had a blast... The show was so good that even the security guards enjoyed it.. right, dear :P?
define being on time? Is that before the event ended or before it started... I know that most men (IDA included...) function on their own time table, not the one that women function on, which is the one based on the clock not the location of the sun in the sky...
Just curious as to whether or not your "special" textbook has the IQ for "special" in it or not? We use 70 and under to be special here in Texas... :)
And I have to agree with Val- you are both hot (in different ways), with or without the math problems...
we don't work on it at all...
it comes out naturally :-P
i knew it!!!!
no, actually. that was a different girl.
huh? aaa.. no! only me. :-) jaja.. no other girls for my boy. I can keep him humble on my own, if that's what you were talking about!! lol...
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