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1600 GRE - how many a year?

I noticed this thread from a while ago: http://www.xoxohth.c...
Domesticated meetinghouse indirect expression
  09/16/09
I think I once heard the number 600. I cannot tell you where...
cruel-hearted rose library
  09/23/09
" I might have heard it from the ETS center I took the ...
Duck-like fluffy church building milk
  09/23/09
How do quickie mart staff celebrate? Last I heard, lotto pla...
cruel-hearted rose library
  09/23/09
they immediately engage in a traditional bharata natyam temp...
Duck-like fluffy church building milk
  09/23/09
Of my college friends who took the GRE and went on to grad s...
Swashbuckling shrine really tough guy
  10/03/09
1) 500 2) 520 3) 640
Duck-like fluffy church building milk
  10/03/09
I think you've hit the nail on the head. If you got 800V, y...
scarlet step-uncle's house
  09/16/09
i don't think i'd assume it's english majors getting 800v's ...
multi-colored pistol giraffe
  09/18/09
...that was my point.
scarlet step-uncle's house
  09/19/09
many english majors are mental midgets
azure bearded half-breed
  09/30/09
I met a graduate student in English at a top ranked departme...
Fragrant flirting office
  12/04/09


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Date: September 16th, 2009 6:27 PM
Author: Domesticated meetinghouse indirect expression

I noticed this thread from a while ago: 1600 GRE - how many a year? I wasn't able to post in it for some reason, so I'm starting this one.

the numbers in the ets data are a little old but shouldn't have changed terribly much in the interim. taking the data from the ets: 740 verbal was the 99th percentile. given that, I'll take a wild guess that 800 verbal is 99.8. the info also says that about 1.2 million people took it over three years. 400,000 people x .002 = 800 people. clearly not all of these will also be acing the quant section, though given how easy it is there's probably a pretty good correlation.

thoughts?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12761786)



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Date: September 23rd, 2009 9:41 PM
Author: cruel-hearted rose library

I think I once heard the number 600. I cannot tell you where I heard that, though. And it was from a few years ago, so that might be consistent with 800 today if more people are taking it. I might have heard it from the ETS center I took the GRE at (I got it and the staff celebrated). I'm really not sure where I heard it from. But I looked into it a few years back and that was the final number then.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12820849)



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Date: September 23rd, 2009 9:43 PM
Author: Duck-like fluffy church building milk

" I might have heard it from the ETS center I took the GRE at (I got it and the staff celebrated)."

lollll...is this like how a quickie mart staff celebrates when a winning lotto ticket is sold by their store?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12820872)



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Date: September 23rd, 2009 9:45 PM
Author: cruel-hearted rose library

How do quickie mart staff celebrate? Last I heard, lotto places like to steal your ticket....

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12820896)



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Date: September 23rd, 2009 9:57 PM
Author: Duck-like fluffy church building milk

they immediately engage in a traditional bharata natyam temple dance to karnataka music of south-central india.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12820989)



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Date: October 3rd, 2009 3:06 PM
Author: Swashbuckling shrine really tough guy

Of my college friends who took the GRE and went on to grad school, all ended up going to the top schools in their field. The fields were computer science, math, and english. Guess how they ranked on the verbal section of the GRE?

1) computer science

2) math

3) english



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12898201)



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Date: October 3rd, 2009 3:27 PM
Author: Duck-like fluffy church building milk

1) 500

2) 520

3) 640

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12898359)



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Date: September 16th, 2009 11:03 PM
Author: scarlet step-uncle's house

I think you've hit the nail on the head. If you got 800V, you're a likely candidate to be able to get 800Q. The verbal section has a tighter correlation with IQ, meaning that an 800 on that section has obvious implications for likelihood of acing quant, which is relatively easy.

Out of a group of approximately 10 people whose GRE scores I know, three of them got 800V: two of them got 1600's. The other got a high 1500. Anecdotal, but suggestive. There isn't a pack of English majors roaming around, applying for graduate degrees with 800V/500Q splits.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12764226)



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Date: September 18th, 2009 9:49 PM
Author: multi-colored pistol giraffe

i don't think i'd assume it's english majors getting 800v's man.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12781463)



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Date: September 19th, 2009 3:40 PM
Author: scarlet step-uncle's house

...that was my point.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12786419)



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Date: September 30th, 2009 12:24 AM
Author: azure bearded half-breed

many english majors are mental midgets

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#12870869)



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Date: December 4th, 2009 9:21 PM
Author: Fragrant flirting office

I met a graduate student in English at a top ranked department. For undergrad the kid had gone to Bard - which made me think he had brains. Well, he doesn't. I don't know how he's getting through there.....it's been about 6 years and countin'...

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1088256&forum_id=3#13447765)