Fact 1: Indians find the GRE quant test extremely easy compared to the analytical test. (This test has been changed to essays siince 2003.)
Fact 2: Americans find GRE quant and analytical tests to be of the same difficulty level.
Discussion: It's not just that the americans find quant tougher, they find analytical test much easier than us. (Conclusion after discussing with the set of two americans !!) A bunch of guys(lukkhe PHDs from Hopkins) had a discussion on this on their way from library to "One world" for dinner. Here is the accepted conclusion.
The analytical test is about understanding a situation, assimilating the given data and analyzing it. So if the situations given are well known to the candidate he/she feels very comfortable with it and solves it quickly. On the other hand even if the situation is easy but involves alien terms the candidate becomes very careful. Indians get thrown off on seeing a question like jonathan was watching a baseball game with his friends julian and blah blah. They take time to understand and misinterpret it as difficulty. If the question would have been Krishna ramamurthy went to watch a kabbadi game with veera venkataramana, then the americans will find it a lot more tougher.
- The giant panda
6 comments:
I totally diasgree with the conclusion panda :)
cheap sro u hit the blog before me :) mebbe i agree with u ro..though i was one of the 4 guys there
lukkhe PhD!!! u making fun of gulti names???
G: abey Guruzada Pavan Kumar bolne se aur sahi hota tha..actually yeh bolne se sahi effect aata hai be..the long names loose the wow affect in writting..
Ro: how many amrus have u talked to b4 disagreeing..mere pas facts hain, tere pas kya hai??
Mere pass .....Maaa hain!
Dear ro, unfortunately you do not know the truth
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