Sunday, February 8, 2009

Berube on the GRE

Penn State English professor Michael Berube just published an article in the Chronicle Review describing his experience retaking the GRE 25 years after he entered graduate school at the University of Virginia.

Berube suspects that "the verbal test on the GRE general exam is a better measure of applicants than the subject test" and argues that "graduate fellowhips should be awarded on the basis of the verbal GRE, together with faculty evaluations of applicants' writing samples. "

Click here to read the article.