asafos Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Has anyone here taken the Biochemistry Subject GRE Yesterday (19th October 2013)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faerare Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I took the biology subject GRE yesterday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexzeppelin Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asafos Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 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)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexzeppelin Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopefullygrad23 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faerare Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 We should get our scores on Saturday, right? I am anxiously awaiting mine.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That dude Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 The ETS site says Monday. I'm waiting on my chemistry subject score as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masha90 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Scores are up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawatch22 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Scores are up. 98th percentile. Whew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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