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GRE prep makes me feel like I got stupid in my 8 years since I was in school.
I know part of it is that I'm simply out of practice at things which involve remembering various little tricks to do math problems faster, so I'm working on that.
Part may be due to the GREs actually getting harder. I would prefer to think that than that I got stupider, although the fact that I am certainly not as good at sleeping as I was may, in fact, mean that I am. Alertness and such being _quite_ important, and all. (since one of the worst effects I had the first time I had serious seasonal affective disorder was not being able to do division...)
I took them in 2000; my scores on the practice tests, the one I actually graded, were about 100 points lower in both math and verbal.
Yeah. So weird.
I know part of it is that I'm simply out of practice at things which involve remembering various little tricks to do math problems faster, so I'm working on that.
Part may be due to the GREs actually getting harder. I would prefer to think that than that I got stupider, although the fact that I am certainly not as good at sleeping as I was may, in fact, mean that I am. Alertness and such being _quite_ important, and all. (since one of the worst effects I had the first time I had serious seasonal affective disorder was not being able to do division...)
I took them in 2000; my scores on the practice tests, the one I actually graded, were about 100 points lower in both math and verbal.
Yeah. So weird.
