GRE Biochemistry

[asafos]

Has anyone here taken the Biochemistry Subject GRE Yesterday (19th October 2013)?

[faerare]

I took the biology subject GRE yesterday...

[rexzeppelin]

I also took the biology GRE on the 19th. I was originally signed up for Biochem, but after bombing the practice exam I realized it'd be pointless to take it, because if the result wasn't stellar I figured it would only hurt my application. I took the biology exam on standby, and as expected it was much easier. Now I'm on the fence about sending the score. I figured I would send it to schools if I broke the 85th percentile, what about you guys? 

[asafos]

I took the Biochem and suffered :/ I have an electrical engineering degree, and I haven't taken courses in biochemistry and genetics at all and only very basic courses in cell biology and molecular biology, so I had to learn most of it by myself. Therefore, I'm not really expecting for a percentile as high as 85. Do you think it's better not send a score of 85 percentile (or lower)?

[rexzeppelin]

I don't know, but since it seems the subject GRE's aren't required I can see no good reason to send a crappy score.

 

That said, since you're not a biology/biochem major they might look at your scores more leniently, and appreciate that you were able to obtain an average score in a cohort of specialists. 

 

For me, I feel more pressure to 'know my shit' since I have been taking this stuff all through college, hence why I'd like to only send it if it makes me look competent. I think you should send your scores, unless they're really low. Only two weeks til scores now!

[hopefullygrad23]

Hi, I took the GRE biochemistry on oct 19th, and I too suffered   Mostly because of my bad time management. Some questions were easy, and few of them were from topics I have never read/ heard of, even after taking lots of biology courses for over 5 years. But others were really of average difficulty. Although I think I did horribly on it, not because of my preparation, but mainly because I wasted A LOT of time overthinking simple questions fearing that they might be trick questions :/ and at the end skipped a bunch of easy data analysis questions because I had no time to fill in the circles

 

I am waiting for the scores to decide which schools I will be applying to.

[faerare]

We should get our scores on Saturday, right? I am anxiously awaiting mine....

[That dude]

The ETS site says Monday.  I'm waiting on my chemistry subject score as well.

[masha90]

Scores are up.

[sawatch22]

Scores are up. 98th percentile.  Whew!