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I know that the Math subject GRE is a lot more important now, but I didn't know about the subject test until after the last testing date of 2010. I confess, I am really ignorant of the grad school process. I didn't even know the GRE had subject tests until two months ago. Now if I end up taking the subject test at all, it will have to be in April (way after the due dates of most applications), all thanks to my idiocy. It's a real shame because I otherwise would have applied to some top schools, but I've sort of screwed myself over now.

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Thanks for the replies, everyone! I took bhikhaari's advice and retook the test today (luckily my previous testing was December 31, and you're allowed to take it once per calendar month.) I brought my Quantitative up to an 800 and still managed a 750 in the Verbal. I'm soooooo relieved. P.S. Bukharan, I have considered a back-up career as a writer.

So I'm a prospective math graduate student, and I took the GRE today, and I guess you could say that I, as a math major, underperformed. I got a 770Q. I rushed through the test expecting the questions to get harder since it's computer-adaptive, but they didn't really seem to get much harder...I guess I made dumb mistakes, because I didn't feel it was hard at all... For the all around picture, here's what I got. Composite: 1540 Quantitative: 770 Verbal: 770 Percentiles can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRE#Scaled_score_percentiles My verbal score, by percentile inspection, is pretty stellar in comparison to my math score. I know verbal is not considered as much (if at all, in some cases) by math departments, but I was wondering if maybe a math program...say, Florida State/Arizona/Purdue/Texas A&M (or a math program of roughly equivalent caliber) might be willing to forgive a non-perfect quantitative score if it's at least accompanied by a good verbal score...? If it helps provide a bigger picture, my GPA has been a 4.0 during all semesters in my major, math, as well as overall. Also, I am not a minority. EDIT: Weird, when I copied this post, it took away some random spaces between words. Hopefully this post is now readable!