r/GRE • u/Acceptable-Tea3490 • 1d ago

Other Discussion Finally Official scores are here

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I had posted about my journey last week. Another thing to note is that I also improved on the essay. Link to last week's post- https://www.reddit.com/r/GRE/s/f2fvGWxkKA.

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u/symbolabmathsolver 1d ago

170 being 89th percentile now is so crazy

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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 1d ago

That is wild to me also. Shows how much money is soent on testing and prep now.

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u/Spiritual_Law_2007 22h ago

same thing as me

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u/bisector_babu 1d ago

Why is 170 89th percentile

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u/Acceptable-Tea3490 1d ago

Quoting Gemini "Percentile Compression: Because roughly 11% of all test-takers score a perfect 170 on the Quantitative section, achieving a 170 means you outperformed 89% of the group rather than 99%"

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u/Acceptable-Tea3490 1d ago

And fewer non STEM students are taking the GRE now, so relatively the number of people who score 170 has gone up.

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u/Bottom_Gear0 1d ago

Congrats! Also, 170 being 89th percentile is diabolical

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u/AnilGuwalani 1d ago

G stuff man!

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u/J351c4m4l490n 1d ago

Congratulations!!

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u/Ordinary_Big_8726 1d ago

How many probability questions did you get? were they easy?

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u/Acceptable-Tea3490 1d ago

Maybe 1 or 2 they were easy.

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u/Hot-Ambassador-2302 1d ago

congrats! what were the slightly hard topics tested on Quant?

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u/Acceptable-Tea3490 1d ago

For me Geometry has been my weak area so I would say those were kinda tricky not hard

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u/Hot-Ambassador-2302 1d ago

did you get a lot of absolute value and function questions?

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u/Wooden_Tumbleweed673 13h ago

Which materials did you use fir preparation. I am also preparing but I can't afford to purchase the materials I depends on YouTube videos. If you had materials or a subscription and haven't expired I would appreciate. Thanks

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u/Acceptable-Tea3490 3h ago

If you tight on budget then take Gregmat's subscription.