ok dude. i am not sure why you are contradicting yourself here. YOU live in US agreed, but you also live in a capitalistic country...which means that you try to get maximum by giving minimum...and you mentioned that "if the companies get good enough for 50k" - which obviously means that although H1Bs are cheaper, they are still good enough...
so stop talking about jobs being lost and be competitive.....just as H1Bs are being competitive (not in terms of money, but in terms of skills) @ their job.
am also on H1B
As a person who has gone through GRE exams, applied to universities in the US & completed my Masters, I can definitely tell that most people do work very hard for their GRE exams (ofcourse everybody uses sample tests including Kaplans, Barrons, you name it)
GRE is a written exam and the education system in India and China are more oriented towards examinations, whereas the US system is oriented more towards projects for a course (be it a grad or undergrad). As a result, there is no wonder that people from India and China do well on GRE EXAMINATIONS.
Also, the GRE is no different from a MCSE or a SUN certification. There are thousands and thousands of sites on the web to find sample examinations and questions that have appeared (or something close) in previous examinations. Does this mean that SUN OR MCSE have stopped their exams?? NO. In that aspect, GRE is a simple exam. Secondly, instead of adapting to the 'tech' world ideas, the GRE just cancelled their exam to fix their problem.
As a side note, there are people who take the GRE (especially the CS test) who go to the exam just to memorize the questions and start their own question bank. Why? Because CS questions tend to repeat themselves more than anything else. Why? bcos whoever sets up these examinations are not doing their job well.
The one good thing is that this shows how the internet has established itself in these countries. Earlier, these question banks used to be just paper copies, now they are posted on the net.
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ok dude. i am not sure why you are contradicting yourself here. YOU live in US agreed, but you also live in a capitalistic country...which means that you try to get maximum by giving minimum...and you mentioned that "if the companies get good enough for 50k" - which obviously means that although H1Bs are cheaper, they are still good enough... so stop talking about jobs being lost and be competitive.....just as H1Bs are being competitive (not in terms of money, but in terms of skills) @ their job. am also on H1B
As a person who has gone through GRE exams, applied to universities in the US & completed my Masters, I can definitely tell that most people do work very hard for their GRE exams (ofcourse everybody uses sample tests including Kaplans, Barrons, you name it) GRE is a written exam and the education system in India and China are more oriented towards examinations, whereas the US system is oriented more towards projects for a course (be it a grad or undergrad). As a result, there is no wonder that people from India and China do well on GRE EXAMINATIONS. Also, the GRE is no different from a MCSE or a SUN certification. There are thousands and thousands of sites on the web to find sample examinations and questions that have appeared (or something close) in previous examinations. Does this mean that SUN OR MCSE have stopped their exams?? NO. In that aspect, GRE is a simple exam. Secondly, instead of adapting to the 'tech' world ideas, the GRE just cancelled their exam to fix their problem. As a side note, there are people who take the GRE (especially the CS test) who go to the exam just to memorize the questions and start their own question bank. Why? Because CS questions tend to repeat themselves more than anything else. Why? bcos whoever sets up these examinations are not doing their job well. The one good thing is that this shows how the internet has established itself in these countries. Earlier, these question banks used to be just paper copies, now they are posted on the net.