Abysmal and Good

[quicksilver]

Re: GRE's: my Verbal and Writing scores put me in the 91/93 percentiles respectively. My quantitative scores put me in the 18th percentile!! Yikes.

 

Do folks think I should take the whole thing again, or just the quantitative part, or just hope that philosophy programs don't care too much about math? 

 

Thanks for your thoughts!

[obviousbicycle]

What are the exact scores, if you don't mind me asking?

Edited August 27, 2013 by obviousbicycle

[Yetanotherdegree]

I don't think it's possible to just do part of the test. If you only do the Q sections, you will receive a score of 0 on the verbal etc, and when you send your score, you will have to send both test results.

If I were you, I would retake the whole test.

[quicksilver]

These were from 3 years ago, so they were 520 Q, and 650 V, with an writing score of 5.0. I guess I'm just being lazy, huh? Do you folks, or many folks, take courses to study for this, like Kaplan or Princeton review? 

[socialequity]

Hi @quicksilver; I'm currently finishing up an 8-week Kaplan prep course.  Their online resources, like the full-length practice tests, are very helpful! The classes though are fast-paced. Unfortunately my prelim numbers are wretched!!!!!!!!!!! Not representative of my capabilities! Which only makes me have a perpetual eye twitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, went on a tangent- the courses are very expensive, but since it's been a long time since high school, the courses and practice material are definitely helpful.

[CaitlinMarie]

I think it depends entirely on the programs you are applying to. Like you my Verbal is quite high and my Math is low!