Practice GRE, and what scores are expected

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<p>I am a college freshmen or junior, depending on how you look at it (don't ask) with an interest in pursuing graduate study in virology/immunology in a couple years. I took a practice GRE and scored 700 on the verbal, which I was OK with. I got a 670 on math (quite disappointing) but my real score should have been higher- there were two mistakes I made in marking down answers that could not have been duplicated on the computer-based exam, so I think my quantitative score would have actually have been in the low 700 range.</p>

<p>Following that, I've been trying to gauge whether such a performance on the real test would be acceptable to get into grad school. Does anyone know where I could find a listing of average GRE scores for PhD programs in biological sciences at different schools? Google has not given me the answers I'm looking for as well as it normally does.</p>

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<p>Most PhD programs do not publish their GRE score averages, as GRE scores are not terribly predictive of admission, particularly to science PhD programs. It is in your best interest to get the best score you can, particularly on the quantitative section, but your exact score is not likely to keep you out of a program if you're in a competitive range.</p>

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<p>Such a listing does not exist. Your GRE's are less important to most grad programs than are SAT's when applying for undergrad. A 700 on verbal is more than okay...that's well above 90th percentile. Don't let your practice scores fool you though. There are quite a few posts on this board (including a few from the past couple days) regarding people getting lower scores on the real thing. Happened to me as well. Good luck!</p>