Why Can Someone Predict the Grades for First-Year Physics Graduate

question 202

Multiple Choice

Why can someone predict the grades for first-year physics graduate students better from their Graduate Record Exam (GRE) verbal scores than from their GRE quantitative scores?

• A)GRE verbal scores have higher reliability than GRE quantitative scores.
• B)Almost everyone gets higher verbal scores than quantitative scores on the GRE.
• C)The first year of grad school deals more with reading than math, even for physics students.
• D)Physics grad students have more variation in their verbal scores than quantitative scores.

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