GRE Subject Tests

[Kaz]

I made a halfhearted attempt at the Literature GRE: got the ETS book, took a practice test, etc. I was just looking for some easy credits and not really clearing a major at Excelsior. My impression was that it'd be pretty easy to achieve Charter's 40% requirement and that it wouldn't be impossible to get Excelsior's major completed, but I was definitely drawing on my private, college prep high school background in doing so. If I had never had that base to draw on I don't know if I would have even considered it in the first place.

I find the different subjects to be drastically different in difficulty level with respect to the subject GRE. I am finishing a Psych/Math double major at Excelsior. Almost all my psych credits are from the subject GRE and all my math credits are from actual classes. Even with all those math classes under my belt the math subject GRE is still harder for me than the psych GRE lol. I spent less than a year studying for that and cleared the whole major on the second attempt. It was definitively easier in my mind. I could only imagine how hard it must be to self-study from scratch for something like biochemistry, and beat 96% of everyone taking the test, almost all of whom have sat through 12-15 classes in the subject over the last 4-5 years :ack: