No, and it isn't worth much inside graduate school either. Some schools especially towards the high end have stopped using the gre and sat as qualifiers.
Different schools use the GRE for different things (if at all). One coworker has a phd in English. Her math skills are astonishingly bad, and the grad school that she went to looked for low math scores && high english scores: because that combination turned out to be a good predictor for them of a good performer in that particular English program.
Almost none of the things I studied in grad school were used outside of it (which has some to do with why I dropped out). And some of the things I now wish I had studied "back then" also bored me to tears back then. Examples of what bored me to tears back then:
http://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-fsa-req.aspx
(in particular, look at the classes needed to meet education requirements called "vee" by the soa).
>Of course it’s taking inordinate length of time but the experience is really enthralling and edifying.
Yep. That's oooh! shiny! in action. And I find that what's "shiny" changes a lot over time.
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No, and it isn't worth much inside graduate school either. Some schools especially towards the high end have stopped using the gre and sat as qualifiers.
I've found similar results.
Different schools use the GRE for different things (if at all). One coworker has a phd in English. Her math skills are astonishingly bad, and the grad school that she went to looked for low math scores && high english scores: because that combination turned out to be a good predictor for them of a good performer in that particular English program.
Almost none of the things I studied in grad school were used outside of it (which has some to do with why I dropped out). And some of the things I now wish I had studied "back then" also bored me to tears back then. Examples of what bored me to tears back then: http://www.soa.org/education/exam-req/edu-fsa-req.aspx (in particular, look at the classes needed to meet education requirements called "vee" by the soa).
>Of course it’s taking inordinate length of time but the experience is really enthralling and edifying. Yep. That's oooh! shiny! in action. And I find that what's "shiny" changes a lot over time.