GRE Subject Tests

[Kaz]

Sure it sounds great... take 1 test and get a year of credit. But do you realize how difficult the subject GRE exams are? You are graded against a bunch of people trying to get into PhD and MS programs, and many have undergraduate degrees in the field, and usually 3.0+ GPAs. I am speaking from experience - I knew a ton of Psychology, helped a bunch of students study. I got a 37% on the Psych GRE, no credit.

I did test out of a year of school at Excelsior - I suggest to keep it simple, and take a bunch of easy DSST tests instead - check the military pass rates posted online - worked for me. A lot of the low pass rate exams have material that really isn't adequately conveyed in the study sheet.

To be completely honest it's kind of a moot point now really. Excelsior was the way to go with the GRE but you need to have been enrolled since last summer in order to still use it there and this April is the very last test diet you can take and still have Excelsior accept the scores.

COSC doesn't let you finish a concentration with the GRE tests so you still need to fill out the remainder with classes and/or other tests. But for subjects like chemistry or mathematics that doesn't work well because you can't just simply pick up the last two to four upper level classes you need. Other schools aren't going to let you waive pre-reqs because you got a good GRE score and they most likely will not let you take a senior level course in chem or math, for example, if you don't even have the most basic of introductory courses completed in those subjects. So if you have to complete some of those anyway the GRE wouldn't have really done a whole lot for you, right? Maybe save you the time and money for a couple classes, but that's about it.

SUNY-Empire requires you to get a crazy score in order to clear a major, like 96+% or even better :roflol: ! Plus they have a residency requirement so you can't test out completely no matter what, you'll still have to take 32(?) credits from Empire as an Empire student. Almost nobody on this forum talks about Empire precisely because of that requirement.

And that's all of them: I haven't heard of any other schools that'll give you credit for the subject GRE. The avenue is effectively dead and I wager that after this May/June you won't see anybody posting their results or what-not here because the last Excelsior students to use it will be done and COSC students aren't too keen on it regardless.