Good Luck!
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:25 am
Best wishes to everyone taking the exam October 2015 Exam today!
for current and prospective graduate students in mathematics
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Exactly!User0821 wrote:Thanks! I could have used some luck today. I thought the exam was quite difficult.
I ran short on time. With 30 minutes remaining I realized there were still about 15 questions remaining. The rushing that followed won't do me any goodUser0821 wrote:Thanks! I could have used some luck today. I thought the exam was quite difficult.
This is not necessarily bad performance. When I did the test 3 years ago I answered only on 51 questions (with at least 1 mistake that I know of) and gotmathTaughtMeHumility wrote:I ran short on time. With 30 minutes remaining I realized there were still about 15 questions remaining. The rushing that followed won't do me any goodUser0821 wrote:Thanks! I could have used some luck today. I thought the exam was quite difficult.
Well, I'm an international student with what I would say a below average profile (I only started doing mathematics last year, after switching from physics, and didn't do well in my first semester as a math student). I was banking on the subject GRE to mitigate my profile, and in the two practice tests I could get my hands on I scored 850-860 (that's 89% according to 2011-14 data). And that was with me leaving out only 3-4 questions and getting 7-8 wrong (I didn't take any guesses, all these were silly mistakes). I was hoping that with some luck I might be able to push myself to 95%, to possibly get a favorable point rather than a passable score. But in the actual test I straight out left 4 questions without even reading them, I know I have got 3 wrong and have taken a couple of guesses. With the inevitable (additional) 7-8 wrongs I'll most probably get, GRE is not going to strengthen my profile, and in worst case scenario, it might even be an additional thorn in my sidemath_stu wrote:This is not necessarily bad performance. When I did the test 3 years ago I answered only on 51 questions (with at least 1 mistake that I know of) and got
860 (91%). Good luck!!
Congrats!mathTaughtMeHumility wrote:I checked my score and I've got 890 (94%)
Seems like the test was more difficult this time, and I made fewer mistakes than in practice tests.