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Subject: Re: Preparing for GRE's (especially Computer Science)
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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 00:57:14 EST
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In article <3272@utai.UUCP> gh@utai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst) writes:
>Perhaps the good students are exactly the ones who understand instead of
>memorize and hence get respectable but not outstanding scores in the subject
>test, while the memorizers do well in the subject test but don't make it in the
>aptitude tests.

Not true.  It is possible to do well on both tests.  The thing about the
subject test is that while the test is not deep, it is *very* broad.

It covers everything just about everything you could think of in
computer science:  data structures, algorithm analysis, numerical
analysis, graphics, completeness, language and automata theory, and
hardware just based on the questions I *remember*.

As I said, the test isn't deep so you don't have to know a whole lot
about all these areas, just the very basics.

Given the breadth of the test, it's no wonder most people don't do
well, even coming out of a CS background, all though they bloody well
should.  That, however, is an indictment of most CS departments,
not their students.

	Ray Chen
	chen@gatech