vermaabhishekp Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I had planned earlier to apply to gatech. Finally shortened my list to the 6. My interest is Distributed Computing. I interned in Google Bangalore for 3 months, and did a good project on Parallel Genetic Algorithms in IIT Kanpur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicky.nitk Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Hi all, I faxed the Additional Score Report (ASR) form to the number given in the GRE site. Is there any Acknowledgment/Receipt from ETS for this? As in, do they fax back to me that they have received my request? I had posted this in other forums too, but none replied :( Anyone who has faxed too, please reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gttts23 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I called using Skype and except for having to repeat the credit card number it was quite smooth. The results are 870, 97%. I answered 68/70 but I know of atleast 5 incorrect answers. G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 The results are 870, 97%. I answered 68/70 but I know of atleast 5 incorrect answers. G. congratulations man , this is the best score I ever heard for Nov test. BTW, where are you intending to apply ? MS or PhD ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madhur_ahuja Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Hi G This is indeed the best score I have seen. I am aiming for next CS GRE exam. I would be very glad if you could guide me and give some tips. Regards, Madhur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmLogic Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Yes, gttts23, please share how long you studied, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f2003800 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Hi All Thanks a lot to this forum which helped me(non-cs) score 730 (50%) with 1 month preparation. The score neither depressed me nor impressed me but it just woke me Up :) I will fight it next nov 3rd!!! ALL THE BEST FOR JUNTA APPINGS..... Regards, Chiku Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmLogic Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 For a non-CS major studying for only a month, a score of 730 is a major achievement and a sign of great intelligence! If you can pay your own way for an MS program and wouldn't mind having a safety school like UT Dallas, I would consider applying for Fall 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f2003800 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Thanks CalmLogic I have graduated from BITS,Pilani with B.Pharma(Hons.) degree in july, 2007. I have not yet given general GRE and one month before i came to knew that subject test is offered only once in INDIA i.e nov 3rd... so i wanted to give a shot to know the competition level. Now i know the strength of enemy in battle so i can win next time!!! I wanted to work for 2 years and then apply... so i've planned for 2009 Fall. I will be atleast in touch with this forum for one year!!! Regards, Chiku For a non-CS major studying for only a month, a score of 730 is a major achievement and a sign of great intelligence! If you can pay your own way for an MS program and wouldn't mind having a safety school like UT Dallas, I would consider applying for Fall 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grabanca Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Guys, thanx for participating in this great forum. I also got a 870 (97%) score. I didn't answer 5 questions but on the others I was pretty sure. I guess I may have made 1 or 2 mistakes... I had almost no clue when it came to network stuff (4 out of those questions) but I have the theory pretty solid. I think the trick is to not get into problems that are too difficult. Solve many simple problems and make sure that you can understand the problem, do the arithmetic and verify yourself in 2 to 3 minutes. Also, being able to understand someone else's code is crucial. Competing in TopCoder algorithm matches helped me practicing to understand ugly code fast. I studied for this for about a month and this forum was of great help. Especially the posts in 2003... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gttts23 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Yes, gttts23, please share how long you studied, etc. The test is very broad, but also very shallow, most questions can be answered in an average of 3 minutes or so, and therefore theoretical questions are either basic or they can be inferred from the properties of some basic algorithm. For example, from Kruskal's minimum spanning tree we know that the two lightest edges are always part of the minimum spanning tree (assuming no self loops, parallel edges and all edges have different weights). Questions that require computation should not take more than a minute. Therefore there is no point in delving too deeply into the material. For example, there is no point in covering complexity classes beyond the basics. The exam is not likely to ask about PSPACE or the polynomial hierarchy. I started with solving the 1997 ETS book, the ETS practice booklet, and all the exams I could find in the yahoo group or file sharing networks, listing topics where I needed to improve. The forum was also very useful in understanding the types of questions and rehearsing the material. I finished my bachelor's degree 8 years ago, but my line of work requires me to be knowledgeable in logic, formal languages, and automata theory. I was a TA in theory of computation and digital systems when I was a student - I can still solve any regular/context-free/R/RE/co-RE/undecidable question that can be reasonably given in the exam almost immediately. I studied a bit of combinatorics (for the general GRE), a bit of number theory and some probability (expectation, variance, etc.), gone over the types of sorts in CLR (I only knew bubble, merge, heap and quicksort until that), and then covered some of the details of balanced trees and basic graph algorithms such as dijkstra/prim/kruskal/floyd. I read a few chapters from Hannesey and Patterson and listened to the Machine Structures course from Berkeley (UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: CS 61C) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. This course alone covers 15% of the exam. Then I reread a few introductory chapters in CLR and talked to friends that were TAs/lecturers in discrete math, automata and graph theory. Total preparation of around 1 month, all while having a day job. During the exam, my strategy was to read all of the questions first and only then solve the exam, starting from the easier questions, and never get stuck on any single question. This has left me 15 minutes for each of the three questions that were the toughest. My best advice would be for anyone still in college to make sure you take courses that cover all of the major topics. It really makes it much easier. G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gttts23 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 congratulations man , this is the best score I ever heard for Nov test. BTW, where are you intending to apply ? MS or PhD ? Hi MDK, I'll be trying for PhD in the following universities: UC Berkeley (EE) Stanford UT Austin (EE) Rice CMU NYU And for MSc in U British Columbia - they first require an MSc for anyone with a bachelor's degree. G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmLogic Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 My best advice would be for anyone still in college to make sure you take courses that cover all of the major topics. It really makes it much easier. That, and everything else you wrote, is great advice. Thank you, G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saurabh_hmss Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 guys i am dialling this no. +16097717290 from my vodafone mobile... the call connects but there is no voice from the other side.....i dunno whats happening .....did ne 1 faced the same prob....... ane other medium to know scores.........i want to know them today..... plz reply fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f2003800 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Hi Saurabh, I have dialed this no. 0016097717290 from Airtel mobile,INDIA. It worked for me. You will be asked registration or confirmation number, date of birth and finally credit card info.... I hope i haven't missed anything.... anyway as soon as teh call connects they will tell you what you need to have with you. I hope this info helps... if you face any problem feel free to ask. Regards, Chiku guys i am dialling this no. +16097717290 from my vodafone mobile... the call connects but there is no voice from the other side.....i dunno whats happening .....did ne 1 faced the same prob....... ane other medium to know scores.........i want to know them today..... plz reply fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saurabh_hmss Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 thanks f2003800........ i got 810.......though they r not gr8.........i am happy :grad:.....lets see..:hmm:... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f2003800 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Hello ppl does anyone received Nov 3rd subject test scores by mail?? I would like to know my raw score, its end of December.. nearly 2 months after exam... any idea??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saurabh_hmss Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 I got my mail today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vermaabhishekp Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I got mine too.. 52 correct 17 wrong. Raw score 48. Percentile: 84 :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I could finally get my Raw score for the October test Here it is: 48 right, 12 wrong, 10 omitted. Raw Score : 45 This is totally crazy, I scored 45 and only got 770 ( 65%), I don't know WTF happened ????? I know it's something related to statistics, But it's totally unfair I got mine too.. 52 correct 17 wrong. Raw score 48. Percentile: 84your raw is 48 and percentile 84, you should dance and rock all the night. Here is an Advice for prospective test takers: DO NOT TAKE THE OCTOBER TEST . you should take the test when the Indians take it. BECAUSE there will be more test takers. so assuming that 100 students took the October test and 500 students took the November test ( this number increased because of the people from India and China). So the Top 10% of the October test is 10 Students only, however the Top 10% of the November test are 50 students. So your chances of being among the top 20% of them are more likely. Forumula Score: Scaled: 20: 640 (20th percentile) 21: 650 (23rd percentile) 22-23: 660 (26th percentile) 24: 670 (29th percentile) 25: 680 (33th percentile) 26: 690 (36th percentile) 27-28: 700 (40th percentile) 29: 710 (43rd percentile) 30: 720 (47th percentile) 31: 730 (50th percentile) 32 - 33: 740 (54th percentile) 34: 750 (57th percentile) 35: 760 (61th percentile) 36: 770 (65rd percentile) 37 - 38: 780 (69th percentile) ??: 790 (73rd percentile) ??: 800 (77th percentile)Hey CalmLogic, It seems that your formula is far far away from the correct one. because the 45 gave only 770 :( so i guess if u get a raw score > 40 you should be at least around 800How naive and stupid I was when I said that :S I am going to jump of my balcony if I didn't get admission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gttts23 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I got 58 correct, 10 wrong and 2 omitted. Raw score 56. Final score 870, 97th percentile. The curve seems much steeper in the last few percentiles than in previously reported years. G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmLogic Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 MDK, As you post suggests, part of the problem is that ETS isn't transparent at all regarding the scoring of the Subject Tests. For example, a 770 has been around 65th percentile for at least several years now. That has to be wrong since the percentiles are supposed to change while the scaled scores are supposed to be constant. At least you got a good score. I would be surprised if you were not admitted into at least 2 or 3 of the schools you have already applied to. (Also, generally speaking, exercising and socializing more may help lower the stress of applications. It may also help to remember how much you have already accomplished.) Here is an Advice for prospective test takers: DO NOT TAKE THE OCTOBER TEST . you should take the test when the Indians take it. BECAUSE there will be more test takers. so assuming that 100 students took the October test and 500 students took the November test ( this number increased because of the people from India and China). So the Top 10% of the October test is 10 Students only, however the Top 10% of the November test are 50 students. So your chances of being among the top 20% of them are more likely. I must say I reluctantly agree with that. In years past, the November exam was the first exam offered in the new test year. Now that they are offering an October exam rather than a December exam, they may have screwed things up. Like you, I really have no idea what kind of voodoo statistics they are doing since they are keeping the same percentiles for the scaled scores. Also, having taken the October exam, I can't imagine that the November exam was harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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