GRE Scores By Discipline

Verbal and Quantitative have vastly different distributions. Simply adding them together favors those in quantitative fields.<p>I think that the smaller variance in verbal scores should have tipped him off.

The fact that every discipline uses the same test for admissions says more about the quality of academia than the scores.

Interesting: Philosophy scored higher on Verbal than English/Language.

What's the analytic scale mean? I have an analytical writing score but it's on a 0-6 scale.<p>800 quant, 710 verbal. And 46 years old when I took it. ;-)

<i>the total scores for the scientific disciplines are consistently higher than those for the humanities and social sciences;</i><p>Economics scored #4 and it's not a science. That blows away any credibility this might have.<p>Economics does have equations and an analytical approach, but its empirical foundations and usefulness are quite dubious, compared to say, civil engineering, or medicine. I would think that medicine would require a very high degree of empirical rigor, and it must be put into practice every day.<p>This isn't a list of what occupations are useful or even intellectually honest. It's ordered by complexity of abstraction.

GRE is a test of your perseverance, tenacity, ability to stay focused and work towards a goal more than it is the test of how well you speak/understand/write English.

Ego boost or what?!<p>I study physics, math, and philosophy. They each take a top in category award. Know what? I'm going to treat myself to a coffee.<p>[I'd like to see the same done for the individual branches of philosophy. I have a feeling the moral philosophers drag us down. What? Who said that?]

How is it that the average verbal scores are so much lower than math? A math major averages 714 on quantitative whereas an English Lit major averages 573. Is the math that much easier, or do we not speek so goode nemore?

Does anyone know where I could find data on more recent scores, or scores preceding 2002? I'm just curious to see if there any trends and whether the standings have changed much in the past 10 years or so.

Interesting that Math and Science graduates barely scored lower on the verbal sections. I've always felt that the so called verbal section is really more of a discreet math/type theory test plus vocab.

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Is it me, or is education being on the bottom uplifting? I feel like we'd have a serious problem if it were on top.

Religion &#62; Education ... interesting

That's close for physics and mathematics: 790 quant, 590 verbal for me.