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1999/1/25-26 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:15287 Activity:very high
1/25    Computer Science Subject Test, GRE Standard:
        1996, 80 questions                1998, 70 questions
        ------------------                ------------------
        40/80 = 720, 81% percentile       35/70 = 680, 56% percentile
        46/80 = 760, 90% percentile       53/70 = 800, 90% percentile
        58/80 = 850, 99% percentile       64/70 = 860, 99% percentile
        Can someone PLEASE explain what is going on?
                                             -Mr. Industry Is For Dumb People
        \_ Industry is hot, more people want to study CS, more competition
        \_ first of all, subject tests are scored out of 990, so except
           for the lower percentiles these are comparable...also every
           time ETS rewrites the test they fuck with the percentiles,
           which they are very capable of tweaking arbitrarily.  math
           is much smaller than cs, but a 940 on math is only a low 60th
           percentile.  in conclusion, ETS is a bunch of useless assholes,
           and the material generated by ETS is typical that generated by
           assholes.
           \_ well said! Damn MF at ETS should be shot
           \_ i concur.  it should be <DEAD>ets.com<DEAD> not http://ets.org
                \_ i calculated that from start to finish i paid about
                   $500 to ETS during the graduate addmissions process.
                   All for a test scored by a scantron. that's not
                   business, it's extortion.
                   \_ ets.mil
                \_ I know the supposed differences btwn .com & .org. And I
                 know you're restricted from getting domain names like .edu
                 or .mil, etc if you're not really a .edu or .mil. So why is
                 it there's not more heavy restrictions on .com? I mean,
                 shouldn't it be http://www.lovehewitt.org not http://www.lovehewitt.com
                 \_ just like http://autobahn.org is realy a company
                \_ who cares?
                   \_ obviously not you.
                \_ because NSI doesn't give a shit anymore and have made the
                   *only* requirement for a domain in the .{com,net,org} TLD's
                   the $70 it takes to register a domain. -ERic
        \_ The longer you are out of school, the dumber (academic wise) you
           become.
           \_ Yeah, I really feel this way now that I've been out for 5 1/2
              years.  -- yuen
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ETS Co-Hosts Brown v Board of Education Commemoration in California The Educational Policy Leadership Institute is partnering with the California NAACP and other California associations to educate people about events leading up to the historic case's decision and about its current repercussions. Log On Lets Talk Advertorial To Improve Teacher Quality, Support Beginning Teachers In his latest advertorial, ETS President and CEO Kurt Landgraf discusses how effective induction programs combine mentoring with high-quality professional development to help new teachers. Literacy ETS Study Study Measures Literacy Skills Critical to Good Health ETS's Policy Information Report finds half of all senior citizens at lowest level for reading and using health materials.