Correction to my previous numbers: 690; 94th.
Just sayin'. :)
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, I went:
> Now, n=1 here, but when I was preparing to take the Psych GRE in 1988,
> I sat down with a textbook from each field of psychology in which I'd
> never taken a course. I'd been an English major before starting to
> study neuropsych, so there was a lot of ground to cover--most notably
> social, personality, and developmental! But I read each textbook as
> if I were reading it for pleasure, because, after all, the GRE Psych
> test requires only recognition, not recall. I also took the sample
> tests in the Barron's GRE prep book, but when the textbooks disagreed
> with the prep book, I trusted the textboooks. When I took the Psych
> GRE a few months later, I scored in the 93rd percentile (around 650,
> if I recall correctly).
>
> I hereby acknowledge that the preceding paragraph does not constitute
> evidence that my "pleasure reading" technique will work for anyone
> else, or even that it worked for me--though I think I did.
--David Epstein
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