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Subject: Re: Preparing for GRE's (especially Computer Science)
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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 19:15:08 EST
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In article <636@gt-stratus.UUCP> chen@gt-stratus.UUCP (Ray Chen) writes:

>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.

Hoo boy, is it!  Brush up on your excess-9 Gray-Huffman-encoded codes,
theory of flip-flop operation, and work on speed in hand-simulating odd
bits of procedural code.

>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.

I thought I was pretty well read, over and above the standard curriculum,
plus I had a couple of years after my BS to do more learning.  There were
still some pretty bizarre things.  Many of them I recognized as topics
that were important 20 years before, but now obsolete.  (Mercifuly there
were no drum memory questions!)  I've never taken any other GREs, but
somehow I doubt that a biology GRE has questions about details of Aristotle...

>	Ray Chen
>	chen@gatech
							stan shebs
							shebs@cs.utah.edu