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well, I think I am not going to tell my score, since it doesn't help.
For fair assessement, picking applicants is never fair. My supervisor said it is more like a lottery.
GRE does not have so much time for students. I also didn't finish all the problems.
Well, but I still have to say I really HATE GRE. If you have read some posts, I mentioned I also applied schools in UK. Actually, I applied three and got two offers, the other one is unknown. Although among two of the offers, one doesn't provide funding (= rejected), and the funding of another one is pending. But at least the way they judge is far better. (Of course these are not the top universities of UK. However, the unknown one is very good. I am also not going to say I should be admitted by schools in US because of this.)
They interview you, chat to you and ask some questions, both on mathematical and non mathematical issues. Then they decide.
Of course this can possibly be done if you are currently in that country. So, for international students, what they can do is just look at your figures. We understand it, because they can't request all the applicants come to US for interviews. But "scores = research ability" doesn't make any sense to me.
I know you may have tons of reasons to convince me why they do it this way. It's the best way they can possibly do. So, it is quite ironic that graduate schools (particularly science subjects) select people by non-scientific method. By the way, who says selecting people is an exact-science?
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