When you think of the LSAT, you probably think of law school, not graduate or business school. Yet an LSAT score can be used when applying to certain Master’s programs, including some that award an MBA. Which Master’s programs accept LSAT scores? Just as many business programs (thousands of them, in fact) let you take […]
GRE vs. MAT: Which Test if for You?
Exam acronyms and grad school admissions go hand-in-hand. GRE comes up a lot, of course, but there’s also MAT. The GRE stands for the Graduate Record Examinations and MAT stands for Miller Analogies Test. The program you’re applying to may accept scores from either exam, so which test do you choose? Start by considering the […]
3 Key Facts about e-Rater and Automated GRE Essay Scores
Every year more than a million GRE essays cross the desks of ETS essay raters. These same submissions slide through the subroutines of e-rater, an automated scoring program developed by ETS. With a scoring speed of 800 essays per second, e-rater could evaluate every GRE essay from 2013–2014 (about 1.1 million submissions) in under 25 […]
GRE Verbal Scores for Top Education Programs
Education is a popular field of graduate study in the US. It’s the number one discipline for doctoral degrees (MD and JD excluded) and a close second to Business for master’s degrees. Hoping to get into a top program? A strong GRE Verbal score may help. Take a look at the Verbal scores for Education programs ranked in […]
Essays Get Automated Scores… Why Not Report Them in the Test Center?
Right after you take the computer-based GRE, unofficial scores are available for Quant and Verbal but not Analytical Writing. You won’t learn how you did on the GRE’s essay section until your official scores come out about two weeks later. Yet a mere two milliseconds is enough time to score your essays with e-rater, the […]
GRE Text Completion Challenge: Follow the Clues
GRE Text Completion gives you a sizable chunk of text to parse when you have multiple blanks to fill. Putting all the context clues together can be tricky, and any hard vocabulary that pops up, whether in the text or the answer choices, won’t make your work any easier. Get some practice with this challenging three-blank […]
Sentence Equivalence Challenge: Work Around Unknown Words
GRE Sentence Equivalence has a knack for finding the limits of your vocabulary. Fortunately, the GRE isn’t a vocabulary test. You don’t have to know every word in a question to know the answer. Sometimes filling in the blank is a matter of relying on easier words and eliminating answer choices. To see what I mean, try […]
Math Scores for Top Education Programs
GRE Quant Scores at the Top 25 Education Schools Educators are communicators, so top Education schools tend to see a lot of strong GRE Verbal scores. What about Quant scores? Take a look at the Math scores for Education programs ranked in the top 25 from the latest U.S. News Best Grad Schools. US News ranks schools […]
Math Scores for Top Engineering Programs
GRE Quant Scores at the Top 25 Engineering Schools Engineering is a math-heavy discipline. Unsurprisingly, high GRE Quant scores abound among Engineering grad students. Take a look at the scores for Engineering programs ranked in the top 25 in the latest U.S. News Best Grad Schools. US News ranks schools by general area of study […]
How to Make Sense of Symbolic Functions in GRE Algebra
GRE algebra can get weird sometimes. Strange markings like ⧫ or ⊛ will appear in equations that otherwise use ordinary operators like + and −. Unusual symbols in GRE Quant are the hallmark of symbolic functions—pairings of inputs and outputs that, as it turns out, are connected by some pretty standard math. Symbols in math […]