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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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.