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I took them back in 1997... I did well enough, certainly: scored well in the Verbal section and English Literature Subject exam, but did strictly average in the Math and Quantitative Reasoning (which is how editengine did, though he thinks he tanked. 500s are pretty much in the middle of the bell curve). Those scores are deep in my files, somewhere... »» "Forget infinity. I've got books waiting for me to read them." — colin »»"Speculative novels of last Tuesday." — William Gibson |
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Nah, we're not so big on the testing here - entry was pretty much based on GPA in my undergrad. Oh, and I have a song for edit and Uber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sQ30UyNjtg ________________________ differently mediated |
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Bravus - do you really call the future we're training kids for "Q2"?
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Nah, that's a new one on me. One of the textbooks I inherited does refer a lot to 'teaching in new times', though. Undermining that as hard as I can.
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You ain't seen the ads for it on the telly?
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I was going to take it on October 6th, but I think I will push it back so I can get better on the math. --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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Nice. --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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Bump to keep it active.
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Predictably, I am taking the practice tests way too fast and am scoring only average due to impatience.
Maybe I can take the test on sedatives? --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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Wait, 1997? How long have you had a PhD? I thought it was recent. It takes ten years? Wow. --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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It took me ten years. I had no Master's degree, and GW funded me rather well for 4 years while I completed my coursework. Then real life happens; once the funding ran out, I had to get a job to support myself, which turned out to be a full-time job. Having a full-time job definitely gets in the way of being able to do research and/or write consistently.
»» "Forget infinity. I've got books waiting for me to read them." — colin »»"Speculative novels of last Tuesday." — William Gibson |
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That's true.
Stoopid real life. Oh, so I read that FJ article. I found it to a be a bit desultory. What did you think? --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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By "desultory", do you mean "without plan" or "unenthusiastic?" (or both?).
I found it to be a little plan-less, though that article seemed to be geared as a book review, and two-in-one at that. I find that book reviews are often less rigorously written than fully-developed articles, even in academic journals. What I would really like to see is Jameson follow up on a throw-away reference to Mona Lisa Overdrive in a footnote at the beginning of "Postmodernism", where he says that he wishes he could have done a chapter on cyberpunk. But he never has... The review from New Left Review also appears in a very large book Jameson published in 2005, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, which collects his considerable output of SF-focused criticism. I found the piece we're talking about useful for some of the insights offered on PR, to be honest. Could it have been better focused? Yeah. I would have preferred more on PR and less on the Sterling. The version that appears in "Archaeologies" did not appear to be heavily revised compared to the version in NLR. »» "Forget infinity. I've got books waiting for me to read them." — colin »»"Speculative novels of last Tuesday." — William Gibson |
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I ran low on time in the math portion so don't forget speed is important. The new format is less forgiving for slowpokes. -- |
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Without plan. It meandered and there were times I felt he was just indulging in academic effulgence at the expense of real content. But some of the observations were very insightful. --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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What is the "new" format? The format I have been seeing is: Quantitative, Word Problems, and Data interpretation. All with multiple choice. --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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the one on the website now, as opposed to the year old book I used to study with.
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I have only looked at the ones they sent me on that disc, not the website's offerings yet.
You mean the ETS site, right? --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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Google leads you here
http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.fab2360b164...CM10000022f95190RCRD http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.c988ba0e5dd...CM10000022f95190RCRD
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That's where I was looking, thanks for confirming, Edit.
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