<p>I remember back in the day when I took these tests I did almost exactly the same on the SATs and GREs. This was with no preparation for either one.</p>
<p>So I've always thought that you do about the same on both. Is this true? Or is there some other rule of thumb to use?</p>
<p>SAT math is the same as GRE math. GRE verbal is a bit more difficult.</p>
<p>I’m actually embarrassed to say as an engineer I did about 60 points worse on the GRE math than SAT. I imagine it’s mostly because I didn’t study and was completely unaware of the sorts of things that would be asked. I also wasn’t ready for the timed format of the GRE. I finished with about five minutes left over since I typically take standardized tests really quickly, make notes on problems I might have done wrong, and then go back to fix those. Forgot I had no chance on them. :(</p>
<p>(Also got lower scores on the verbal, though that’s mostly because it would have been pretty tough to match my SAT score.)</p>
<p>I did not study for the SAT’s at all. I took the GRE’s 13 years later after taking a single practice test the night before. My GRE score was 10Q, 70V better.</p>
<p>My GRE score was exactly 10 points lower than my SAT score, in the quant section. So, at least from my anecdata, there is a strong correlation.</p>
<p>My GRE was 200 points higher than my SAT.
I didn’t study for the SAT, I did study for the GRE.</p>
<p>PCA1 = intelligence
PCA2 = conscientiousness</p>
<p>well there are other factors too. lots of people plain just don’t study for the GRE. so even with those two PCAs, the explanatory power of those two still isn’t as high as it is for certain other tests. in other words, yes, they do have some correlation (mostly owing to correlations of both with PCA1), but I’m sure this correlation is weaker than the correlation with other tests (where most people actually put effort into)</p>
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<p>Wow, that’s really surprising, since I thought that you’d have to get a near-perfect score on the GRE Math for caltech</p>
<p>Shows how important GREs are. ;)</p>
<p>It could be that I just got off a long day at the lab, but your post makes no sense to me squealofaraven. PCA*?</p>
<p>It depends when you took the SAT. I took the SAT on paper in 1994. No CAT. I got my typical scores: 99th% math, 85th% verbal. I have my scores from CTBS tests from as early as the third grade, and they were always the same.</p>
<p>The CAT, which I did study for, although I’ve been out of school for 12 years and out of math for 15, threw me for a huge loop. I got 99th% verbal (because I cracked the idiot code they’ve worked in there… you will never get a perfect score looking for the right answer since if you use the specific meaning of each word, none of the answers are right, as it’s very sloppy) and 52% math.</p>
<p>I knew about the CAT, I just was unable to develop an adequate strategy for the GRE’s math section, which punishes you hard if there is one type of question you get wrong in particular. They give you another of that type of question. How sick is that? LOL! My weakest point is arithmetic so though I worked very hard to get the first few right, I used up far too much time acting as a human calculator checking and re-checking my math so I could get to the fun math. Sadly, I missed a question and got bumped out of that level, and with just 15 minutes left, never got back in. On my practice tests I was scoring 750 - 790 math in linear, and the same as my actual score (620) on the CAT.</p>
<p>I don’t think they should be THAT different, but they are.</p>