Posted by alexandra_k on December 27, 2004, at 14:28:24
In reply to Re: GRE's Anyone???, posted by gardenergirl on December 26, 2004, at 19:09:17
Ah. I got a maths tutor. He used to be a secondary school math teacher but then turned to behaviourism (the same guy who may just be willing to credit cognitive states, funnily enough - I have been working on him for a while :-))
Anyways, he realised just how bad I am. We were very focused on just getting me through the exam, but no luck really. See it all starts with the times table. I don't know my tables off by heart. I can work out the answer but that alone takes me something approaching 30 seconds and the time allowed for that little tiny aspect of the equation is very minimal indeed. He gave up on me.
It is ok. I just worked my way through the list of the top 50 institutions in the US (in philosophy) and found 2 that didn't require GRE scores. I would have applied to one of them regardless of the GRE thing, and the other has grown on me immensely with my inquiries, so we shall just have to wait and see how things go...
It is a shame. I know I would have been much better off applying to 5 or 6 - but to tell you the truth the cost is prohibitive at any rate.
Shame as there are 3 others that I would have really liked to apply to, but such is life ho hum.
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