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GRE Computer Science Exam Canceled For '02

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-scores-won't-suffer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This may be a bit dated, but the Educational Testing Service has canceled the Computer Science GRE exam for November due to the fact that students were sharing and posting exam questions. One has to wonder about the immediate effect this will have on grad school admittance, as well as the long term changes that will likely occur to the tests as a result."

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  1. sharing? by matt4077 · · Score: 3, Funny

    that's what I call peer2peer education!

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  2. Well, at least they passed the first question by matrim99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, they at least passed the first question:
    1) Can you use a computer well enough to share information?

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  3. Not a tragedy by back_pages · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am applying to grad school for Computer Science this spring, and it turns out that many schools only require the subject test (what this news it about) if you are an international student or if you did poorly on the general test and want to show that you have potential in your area.

    I'm sure not all schools use this approach, but many do. Maybe we'll see fewer international students coming in this year. That will certainly be a loss, but like I said, I'm applying and I really don't mind a temporary loss of competition. ;)

  4. Re:So what? by TheSync · · Score: 5, Funny

    My quantum mechanics teacher has a very good solution to this. He had a file with 100 problems. An exam was a random draw of 3 of those.

    Yeah, I had the same teacher, and it was tougher than just that.

    The three questions were actually superpositions of the 100, so you wouldn't know what they were until you observed them on the test ;)

  5. Re:CS Students from Abroad Should Be Curtailed by smithmc · · Score: 2, Funny

    So "domestic" == "honest", and "foreign" == "dishonest"? What, do you work for the Bush Administration or something?

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