I’m old enough to remember opening my SAT envelope with my Mom peering over my shoulder. As an adult, I remember getting my GRE scores too. Today, for the first time, I got my scores via computer, and actually had genuine anxiety as I waited for the .pdf to finish loading. In some ways, had I just thrown away $130 to take a test I probably had no business taking?

All is well, though. I scored a 193 out of 200, which is scary, because it is significantly higher than I scored on test of the subject that I have a Ph.D. in. The cut score is 160; average range is 166-188, so I’m good to go once I mail the state my certification application. Interestingly, I scored in the middle with Language and Linguistics (right on the average) but scored 35 out of 36 on composition and rhetoric, well above the mean. So it goes.