February 6, 2009
Testing the Test
An English professor takes the GRE and questions its value
I did a very foolhardy thing this fall. I retook the Graduate Record Examination in English literature, 25 years after I entered graduate school at the University of Virginia.
The potential for embarrassment, I thought, was enormous — and, therefore, so was the perverse attraction. It seemed like a stunt out of a David Lodge novel. What if an English professor got a lower GRE score than some of the applicants who had been rejected from his own graduate program? It's not
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