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165 Verbal, 150 Quantitative

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04 Oct 2021, 19:03

Should I retake? I'm capable of 170 on the Verbal, and I'm kicking myself because I got two questions wrong that I knew better than to get wrong on the GRE I took on Sunday that cost me points and brought me down to 165.

Would I benefit from raising my Quant on a retake or does it not matter? I'm applying to English MA/PhD programs, hoping to get into NYU.

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05 Oct 2021, 00:02

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usually the score the students have is the other way around. more quant and less verbal.

It all depends on the Univ you apply for. However, for NYU 160/162 would be the minimum requirement

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05 Oct 2021, 06:18

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Hi

usually the score the students have is the other way around. more quant and less verbal.

It all depends on the Univ you apply for. However, for NYU 160/162 would be the minimum requirement

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Right, I am aware of that, and I know I can raise my Quant score substantially if I just focus on memorizing the fastest ways to problem solve all of the question types that the GRE asks, but isn't that 160/162 minimum for Stern? I'm applying to the English MA program with a PhD track.

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https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/average-g ... 22116.html and here is a closer look https://gre.myprepclub.com/forum/the-gre-a ... tml#p42871

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Re: 165 Verbal, 150 Quantitative [#permalink]

05 Oct 2021, 08:30

I'm not interested in going to business school.

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05 Oct 2021, 09:54

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I'm not interested in going to business school.

yes true.

However, whatever school you pick the average GRE score is that.

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05 Oct 2021, 10:09

Are you sure about that? Because those links look like the GRE baselines for MBA programs at those schools, not for English MA or PhD programs, for which I always assumed the quantitative score was not important. Why are you sorry?

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Re: 165 Verbal, 150 Quantitative [#permalink]

15 Oct 2021, 09:13

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RStacks90 wrote:

Should I retake? I'm capable of 170 on the Verbal, and I'm kicking myself because I got two questions wrong that I knew better than to get wrong on the GRE I took on Sunday that cost me points and brought me down to 165.

Would I benefit from raising my Quant on a retake or does it not matter? I'm applying to English MA/PhD programs, hoping to get into NYU.

Do you know the average quant and verbal scores at your desired programs?

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29 Dec 2021, 11:35

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RStacks90 wrote:

Should I retake? I'm capable of 170 on the Verbal, and I'm kicking myself because I got two questions wrong that I knew better than to get wrong on the GRE I took on Sunday that cost me points and brought me down to 165.

Would I benefit from raising my Quant on a retake or does it not matter? I'm applying to English MA/PhD programs, hoping to get into NYU.

Do you know the average quant and verbal scores at your desired programs?

I saw a statistic that NYU English's median quant for admitted applicants was 154 and I would believe that Columbia's median would have to be closer to 160. Should I just retake? I know how to do well on Quant now, you basically just have to do a bunch of math problems and identify the shortcuts you need to solve different types of problems without brute forcing (which I did almost exclusively on my first attempt) and I'm confident I can raise my 165 in verbal to at least very close to, if not, a 170. Then again, I get the feeling that raising my verbal a few points and writing a 6 AWA isn't going to make a huge difference.

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29 Dec 2021, 11:59

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Brute force is almost NEVER the way to go. These tests are for logic and to see something between the lines. They assume you are clever seeing the nuances.

However, in rare cases, brute force or trial and error could be the case

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Re: 165 Verbal, 150 Quantitative [#permalink]

31 Dec 2021, 10:37

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RStacks90 wrote:

ScottTargetTestPrep wrote:

RStacks90 wrote:

Should I retake? I'm capable of 170 on the Verbal, and I'm kicking myself because I got two questions wrong that I knew better than to get wrong on the GRE I took on Sunday that cost me points and brought me down to 165.

Would I benefit from raising my Quant on a retake or does it not matter? I'm applying to English MA/PhD programs, hoping to get into NYU.

Do you know the average quant and verbal scores at your desired programs?

I saw a statistic that NYU English's median quant for admitted applicants was 154 and I would believe that Columbia's median would have to be closer to 160. Should I just retake? I know how to do well on Quant now, you basically just have to do a bunch of math problems and identify the shortcuts you need to solve different types of problems without brute forcing (which I did almost exclusively on my first attempt) and I'm confident I can raise my 165 in verbal to at least very close to, if not, a 170. Then again, I get the feeling that raising my verbal a few points and writing a 6 AWA isn't going to make a huge difference.

I mean it would not hurt to give it another shot. What did you decide to do?