GRE

Have you ever wondered who writes the GRE? Two years ago I could not have cared less about the GRE, what it involves, why it is on a computer, why it is being revised, why it costs 160 dollars, or why so many people care about it. Unfortunately, I now care about these things. Now, I hate to go ahead and jinx myself, but to anyone even remotely associated with the creation of the GRE here is what I say to you: "BOO".

If you ever wanted to pursue a degree after your baccalaureate (which sounds like "back a lor ee et". I'm sorry, just say bachelor's) you would know that you most likely have to take an exam to get into a school for whichever degree you so choose to earn. What you don't know is that some dill-hole is writing your exam just trying to keep you out of said school to earn said degree. He puts words in the analogy section such as, "garrulous, hackneyed, felicitous, and perfidious." Why, sir, do you hate every student taking the GRE.

I have come up with two theories and one that is without a doubt NOT the reason for his hatred toward students, they are as follows:

1 - He took the standardized test that the school of his dreams gave to him. It was his last requirement for admission. They actually told him, "If you can pass this exam you will be accepted." Guess who sucked on that exam! Because he never got in he wants to keep every other student from ever achieving his/her dreams. Thus was born the GRE frequently used words list.

2 - He was a professor at a University but all of his students hated him and played pranks on him until he cried. Everyone knows that if you make a man cry he will seek vengeance seventy times over. Well, turns out us students are still paying for that. Why couldn't he have just failed all of them and that would make them cry?

Finally, the one reason that we can eliminate as a possible explanation:

Trying to find the actual potential of an student applying to a school. In an exam where you could get two answers correct and score 800 and another kid could get two answers correct and get 200, it just doesn't sound that fair to me. The other problem is that I hold the opinion that a person is more than a number. Go to any patient and ask them what their doctors, nurses, physical therapists, optometrists, dentists, or gynecologists GRE score was. I don't think they would even care. Patients care about whether their doctor, nurse, etc., knows how to help them, and whether they are kind, helpful, friendly, respectful, knowledgeable, hardworking, and an all around good person. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can tell that from a score between 200 and 1600.

Maybe I am saying all of this because I am in a bad mood that I have to spend hours of my time preparing for something that I see as a hoop to jump through, but I think I am more saying it out of the fact that all people do these days is ask - what's your GPA, GRE, SAT, ACT - nobody cares about how hard you work or how much you care about other people, and unfortunately a lot of the caring and hardworking people don't get a glance because people are so concerned with another applicant's GPA that is higher - regardless of whether he cares about people or not. Good job America.