In today’s data-driven world, a solid understanding of basic math is important for almost any degree. How about personal statements? Although an important part of an application, they do not provide any measure of your quantitative reasoning ability. Well, although your undergraduate grades are objective (insofar as they can be boiled down to a number), they are not standardized: a 3.7 at one school means something very different elsewhere. The short answer is that programs need one standardized, objective benchmark across which to compare thousands of applicants. Neither are “useful,” “educational,” or “productive.” So why on earth do grad programs force applicants to sit through 4+ hours of torture, reading boring passages and solving high school math problems? GRE examinees often use colorful adjectives to describe the test day experience. But these numbers have important consequences for your grad school application and for how you prepare for the GRE, so it’s important to understand the meaning behind them. The numbers associated with GRE scores might seem equally confounding and arbitrary–determined by some capricious wizard behind a curtain. As FDR explained to his Treasury Secretary, he believed that three times seven was a lucky number, and so that was that. This figure, as it turned out, had been chosen by President Roosevelt himself. Because numbers are such concrete things, we tend not to question where they come from or what they mean.įor instance, one morning in 1933, the U.S Federal government increased the price of gold by 21 cents.
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