peter_hurford comments on October Monthly Bragging Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: peter_hurford 05 October 2013 12:56:32AM *  17 points [-]

I got a 167 out of 170 on the Verbal portion of the GRE (97th percentile). And this was a triumph of effort over raw ability -- I was only pulling a 159 (81st percentile) before I did some intensive practice.

Comment author: Ishaan 06 October 2013 07:25:01AM *  2 points [-]

Congrats!

If you did correspondingly well on the quantitative section, you can get a free snp genotyping

(I'm taking the GRE soon too, and using this as an additional incentive to do well on it)

Comment author: peter_hurford 06 October 2013 07:11:39PM 2 points [-]

Unfortunately, the quantitative score did not go up with training. I got a 161 there (81st percentile).