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Show IBHirutah Statesman Aggie Life 8 6 9 5 1 4 7 2 Test taking doesn't end with graduation for students seeking higher degrees State are the Miller Analogies Test (MAT), the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), the Assistant Features Editor Law School Admission Test (LSAT), the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) Standardized tests don't usually whip and the Graduate Management Admission students into a frenzy of excitement. But Test (GMAT). Jensen said the GMAT for those students who have graduate administration will end at USU December school on the horizon, they are sometimes 31, 2005 when ETS has contracted to hand a necessary evil. GMAT testing over to Pearson-Vue Test The Education Testing Service is a nonprofit organization that creates and distrib- Centers - The Miller Analogies Test is taken utes millions of standardized tests in the mostly by psychology students. This test United States as well as in 180 other counchallenges your mental ability through 100 tries. They are the company responsible problems stated as analogies. for distributing various tests ranging from high school AP tests to the GRE. • The Graduate Record Examination is perhaps the most common of the standardETS states the tests are aimed to measure potential success and critical thinking ized tests. ETS said the tests is aimed to skills, not necessarily specific knowledge or measure verbal, quantitative and analytical reasoning abilities that have been acquired achievement. over a long period of time and that are not Test scores are not the only thing that related to any specific field of study. will gain you acceptance into graduate school but they are a strong factor. Exactly • The Law School Admission Test is which test you need to take is dependent required for first-year law students. This upon your department or college. test examines critical reading and analytical thinking Eric Jensen, testing director at Career • The Medical College Admission Test is Services stated in an e-mail, that for most requiredforall first-year medical students. programs a January or February deadline The MCAT is based first on intellectual is common in the year when the student ability and then tests knowledge of biology, plans to begin in the fall term. Scores chemistry and physics. take between three and six weeks for these exams, so it is a good idea to take the exam •The Graduate Management Admission well in advance of any deadline. Test measures general verbal math, and writing skills. This test is aimed towards "Some schools, especially schools with business students and includes quantitacompetitive programs or more selective tive reasoning as well and the ability to admission policies, have earlier deadlines," interepret graphs and charts Jensen said, "Students should always contact the schools and programs they Jason Wallace spent 10 hours in the are interested in soon enough to meet all testing center taking the MCAT this past deadlines that may come earlier than the August. Wallace said the actual test was 'normal' January or February dates." "only about 5-6 hours" but because there were so many people taking it, passing out Jensen said all tests require advance the tests again between breaks took a long registration and although all of the tests time. can be taken more than once, full test fees apply to each administration of the test. "I took the test during the summer, and so studying was my full-tine job," Wallace Jensen said most tests can be taken no said. Wallace took a preparation course more than once per calendar month. and for five Saturdays before the actual Jensen said exactly which test you need test. Each Saturday he would take a sample to take is dependent upon your departMCAT in order to get used to the timing ment or college. The graduate and professional school tests currently offered at Utah and format of the test and in order to get BY EMMA TIPPETTS ready to take a long test each weekend. In addition to his prep course, he took another six-week preparation class that met for three hours each day before Wallace would spend between three to four hours of his own time each day studying. Wallace is currently awaiting his test scores back. He said they should be here sometime this month. In the meantime, he is getting ready to apply to medical school. Wallace said his biggest piece of advice for students getting ready to take the MCAT would be to take as many practice tests as possible. "Nothing can give you the test experience with the timing without sitting down and taking the tests," Wallace said Joe Creasy, a graduate student in accounting said when he took the GMAT it was a lot like a "more complicated ACT." Creasy said the test took him about four hours to complete and he scored well enough to get into the program he aimed for. "Most people only take it once unless they are trying to get into a really prestigious school, most time the scoreforthe first time is OK, " Creasy said. Creasy said his adviceforany students who are getting ready to take the test would be to, "study the math section a lot more, it has a lot of geometry stuff. It's all stuff you've probably learned before," Creasy said, "But you haven't gone over it in a while." Pete Morris Admissions Officer in the School of Graduate Studies said Utah State requires graduate test scores in the 40th percentile for acceptance. Although acceptance into graduate school can often be challenging and frustrating, according to recent surveys posted on GradView's Web site sponsored by Hobsons, over one million people entered graduate programs in the United States last year. Those one million people now have the opportunity to earn an average of 35 to 50 percent more than those with only a bachelor's degree. g 6 i4 8 7 r 1 5 3 4 6 5 ZJA 8 2 9 6 5 2 •j 3 1 4 9 8 3 12 "4*1 1' 8 !6 9 ;8 Answers to 5 |9 i7 ;3 Today's 2"1 "4 j 6" "7"; 5 :1 1i3 4 5 J9 |8 6 7 2. Puzzle WA/G In order to accommodate parking (or the Memorial Service to be held Monday. November/ the following parking arrangements will take place: The three parking areas by the Spectrum (AI1CR Spectrum, A4 Harris and ABCR Harris) will be closed in order to accommodate dignitaries. 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