<p>Do most graduate schools look at only your last two years of grades (i.e. last 60 credit hours) ? At least that's what I noticed for the master's program. Also how important is the GRE score for a technical field like engineering? A lot of schools seemed to use it to award TA and RA position, is this true?</p>
<p>The GRE verbal score isn't terribly important for engineering graduate school admissions, but your quantitative score had pretty much better be an 800.</p>
<p>The average engineering GRE quant score is 720 with a standard dev of 80 (see page 18 of this</a> pdf). That is a high average score right there.</p>
<p>wow i didn't know that a 640 on the verbal portion is 90 percentile, and a 700 on quantitative is a measly 68 percentile. i'm still used to the old sat scores so this is a little confusing (i just picked some random scores)</p>
<p>although this is from 2001-2004, has there been any recent changes to the table on p13?</p>
<p>I'd say it's right on. I took my GRE's November 2005. 670 verbal was 94% and 800 math was 92%. 5.5/6.0 for writing was 86%.</p>
<p>Actually, if you download the GRE Powerprep software and look at the "REPORTS", the Q section pretty much fits a nice bell curve once you remove physical science, math and engineering majors. It is these majors who skew the curve. Therefore, you must look at the average relative to your intended field of study. Oh, yeah, for engineering, a 700+ looks like the norm. For comparrison, education majors hover around the 490-500 range.</p>