<p>When all else fails, my motto is to turn to the CC parents! With 2 children in their last year of college, I feel like I know a fair amount about the SAT, ACT, subject tests, etc. However, after researching the GRE for the past 24 hours, I still have a number of questions that I cannot answer and told our twins I would give them the benefit of what I could learn.</p>
<p>I realize the format of the GRE has changed effective this summer and there seems to be a single approach to the GRE that also encompasses the GMAT? What can anyone tell me about that? Both kids are liberal arts majors - one English, one Philosophy-so their interest is taking the GRE. Like most other kids in their senior year, they are increasingly absorbed in their job search ( and the reality that is coming with that effort). Based upon their research,they feel it is best to take the GRE while still in school. We know that the results are "good" for 5 years.</p>
<p>I guess my biggest question is do kids often repeat the GRE, like the SAT/ACT, do superscore policies differ school to school? And also, are there additional prep. tools that will stregthen their performance. They have been strong students in a top 50 LAC-and SATS were in the 1300+ range. </p>
<p>Thanks as always, for the wonderful help available on this board.</p>
<p>my D took the GRE once & her score comparatively was higher than her SAT score. ( she also took it more than two years after college graduation)</p>
<p>I suggest you have your twins post this question on CC’s graduate forum, or on this forum
[Graduate</a> School Admission, Advice, Discussions, Help and Information - The GradCafe Forums](<a href=“http://forum.thegradcafe.com/]Graduate”>http://forum.thegradcafe.com/)
or have them ask other seniors who are applying to grad school.
They are the ones who should be asking all the questions re graduate school .
Time to step back mom .</p>
<p>Georgiatwins,
Your twins sound like they have the ideal background for the reading and writing sections GRE. There is quite a bit of obscure language that most likely would be familiar to an English or Philosophy major. D did well and her percentiles were close to the percentiles she earned on the SAT (actually did better on GRE math and made a perfect score-easier to prep for the math than the verbal). The math is pretty straightforward-it is basically HS algebra and geometry. D completed one of the online Kaplan versions for the GRE. She did no prep for the SAT. However, since the algebra and geometry had been so long ago, she needed a refresher (she had taken calculus and calc-based stats in college but felt the HS math was very different). If you are not familiar with it, the test is taken individually on a computer at a testing center and the results are instantaneous (except writing).</p>
<p>AS to superscoring, it depends on what type of program they are applying to. D was considering clinical psych and neuroscience. She was told to take the GRE no more than twice (she took it once). Those programs did not superscore.</p>