If 0 < st and st < 1, which of the following is true:
A.) s < -1 and t > 0
B.) s < -1 and t < -1
C.) s > -1 and t < -1
D.) s > 1 and t < -1
E.) Who cares, and why do I need to know this to prove my worthiness of attending grad school?
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November 18th, 2007 | 
You’re right, expecting grad students to be capable of analytical thinking is totally unreasonable.
PS: It’s C.
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I knew it… Angry Kerry is back.
While C) can satisfy the requirements for some values of s and t, there are values of s > -1 and t < -1 that will cause the conditions in the hypothesis to fail (for example s = -0.5 and t = -10, causing st to equal 5 which violates st < 1, but then we can use s = -0.5 and t = -1.5 which gives st = 0.75).
no shit. but no values from A, B or D will ever meet the requirements.
The question should have been “which of the following could be true.” I wouldn’t recommend the person who wrote the question that way for grad school, either.
Dude, no flaming the blogger!
It’s to show you paid attention in high school. Not by means of proving you remember basic algebra, but to show that you retain the power of analytical thinking.
Smartass is closest with ‘the question is poorly worded’.
For more information on what is required to attend grad school these days, try this link:
http://www.expelledthemovie.com/home.php
(I’d give anything to be in the room when Kerry reads that, She’s so cute when her head explodes!)
I agree. the real answer is E. I’m knee deep in grad school application hell. My scores do not indicate for one red-blooded second my ability to write poems (which is my thing) or to be a productive and helpful critic of poetry (which is also my thing).
I really wish that I could crash a really fucking huge frying pan to the heads of all of the people who decided that the GREs are really an indication of one’s ability to think, analyze, determine and distinguish what’s going on with any set of information or any creative or intellectual process.
Bah humbug!!!
All of these tests are for one purpose: to help grad school admissions sort thousands of people. There is no pratical value and little relationship to proformance once in school. Interstingly, athletes have proven this: They get into school where they couldn’t get into based on their scores. They then do as well as other students who had higher test scores.
Also these tests are class and race bias. Rich people can “learn” the test, courses like Kaplan allow those with enough money and/or time to over proform. Also the tests have been shown to have cultural biases. For example they might ask a poor kid in Harlem (my hood) a question about sailing or about moose huntin’. Now Kerry should know all about moose huntin’ so lets hope that on there.
To date no studies have been done to see what would happen if you threw the applications down the stairs and just excepted people who went the farthest.
Anyways, we can burn the world down later, first just get yourself into grad school. Oh and I am sooooo glad Angry Kerry is back.
wait. i’m confused, kerry.
i thought you liked ponies? but not horses?
help?
I don’t know why you’re bitching, the fact is that the GRE is less mathematically rigorous than the SAT.
If you can’t think logically enough to do 8th grade mathematics, you don’t have any business in grad school.
John,
You’ve obviously never taken the exam (there are no moose hunting or sailing questions), so please keep your baseless opinions to yourself. BTW, proformance != performance, and excepted != accepted. Harlem indeed.
Wait..John should “keep his baseless opinions to himself” but you are entitled to spew derisive rhetoric all over my blog? And who the fuck are you that you feel content to tell others off?
You are correct in that John did not take the GRE…He took the LSAT instead – as well as the NYS Bar exam.
Columbia Law School in fact – where’d you go mxracer? P.s. nice job correcting the spelling of a dyslexic. Way to keep it classy.
Like the ladies said, I am wicked smaht But ya know if you want we could step outside.
Mxracer do you really have nothing better to do than be mean to people on the internet???
Kerry, are you going for a masters in education or what?
how does one join this convoluted conversation without stepping on too many toes? and how is there this big a fight over a math question, its math not politics. It’s not like “S” and “T” are opposing candidates and one of them slept with his intern and the other started a war with someone because they could. fighting about math… i find very childish.
Also, it’s not as if S&T are warring factions vying for power in the already disrupted Balkan states…who gets this angry over math…you people need to take a nap.
And now for the grand denouement: “If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppercorns, how many peppercorns did Peter Piper pick?”
And yes, there is only one correct answer to this …
You don’t need to take GREs for an MEd. I am seeking a Masters in Exercise and Sports Science with a Concentration in Coaching Intercollegiate Athletics. Yeah..I wanna be a track coach when I grow up
I’m looking forward to the next mathematics question on the blog. I don’t think there is much more I can do with this one…..
Hey Kerry, lets get back to the horse question. If it was another multiple choice I missed it.
The LSAT is a party test.