The tutorial CD’s been claimed, btw.
There is another way: be a physics or math major. Almost all the material on the quantitative portion is information I use daily in the course of my homework sets. I scored a 750 on that portion, up from my 720 on the SAT Math section.
Wow… outstanding rant, Sam… and yes, ETS has grown arrogant about how much WE need THEM.
OTOH, I see that you too took the GREs originally back in the days of my much beloved friend, the #2 pencil. But contrary to your case I was much filled with woe by the march of progress… I had made it such an art, to attack that paper with the graphite, yea, I was a veritable Zorro of oval-filling! My mad skillz, obsolete in the prime of my life! 
And I got some absurdly high score near the 90th percentile in all sections that I have long since forgotten, it being something like 24 years since. Which was kinda pointless as I proceeded to not only not go to Grad School but not even finish my BA Senior year until many years later…
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It’s been over 10 years since I took the GRE but the quanti part was one of my perfect scores and I’m not even good at math! It was all pretty basic; except for an itsy bit of trig, all at the 6th-grade-or lower level. My experience (obtained post-GRE) tutoring American students showed that most of them couldn’t draw a zero using the core or a PT roll as an aid, though.
As I understand it, Spats has mastered the zero-drawing part of that, and is now working on his number 1s and 2s.
Not that it even comes close, but I took the CBEST some years ago, when I thought I might want to be a K-12 sub. It cost $40-plus at the time; I don’t know what it is now. It wasn’t so bad; I was able to bone up for it with a workbook from the public library. But I was and still am irritated that I had to take the reading and writing portions even though I already had a friggin’ Master’s Degree in English.
That’s all. This post is quite lame compared to the others.
I took the GRE back in 1990 and did pretty well. Decided not to go to grad school. I decided about 5 years or so ago to look back into it. They no longer keep records that old. If I’d taken it a couple years earlier, they’d have kept it for life. Or a couple years later, for a set amount of years. But because of my bad timing, I’d have to take it again.
I Don’t Think So.
“Non-profit” or “not for profit” doesn’t mean the business isn’t out to make money. It just means that any money they do make goes back into the company.
/Not-for-profit veteran
Hmm. Does the revenue over expenditures (i.e. what would be called “profit” in a regular business) have to be spent or are they allowed to be cash rich?
The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery does great work, but I’ll never give them a dime because they are notorious cash cows. Their headquarters are nicknamed “The Poverty Palace”- lavish building, prime real estate near the capitol, etc… They’re non-profit but they are sitting on tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars and yet continually begging for more; there have been several articles from reliable sources complaining of this and the fact that if they never received another nickel in donation they could carry on indefinitely just from the interest from their cash.
It depends on the organization’s charter. A certain amount is allotted for staff wages, overhead, and other operational expenses. The rest must be re-invested back into the business, or put towards a specific cause, but when and how that happens can vary.
The main difference between a not-for-profit and a regular business is that a not-for-profit is created towards a specific cause. While a business’ specific cause is making money, the NFP’s cause is usually social or political. It’s still a business, though. Their charter and bylaws will state what the cause is, and the board of directors will guide decisions about the implementation.
The NFP I worked for maintained several funds for various causes, and I believe money was carried over from one ‘season’ to the next. I am not an accountant or legal expert though, so I don’t know about the accounting or legal issues involved.
Tried to edit to add this but the stupid boards timed out (I am so not renewing my subscription when it lapses). I wanted to add:
Also, it may be written into the NFPs charter that they have to maintain a trust with a certain amount of funds, so they may be “cash rich” but not legally allowed to use the funds for certain activities. NFPs are limited in how they can use money they receive depending on the revenue source.
Oh madonna, if this is over what happened on Valentine’s Day XJET, how many damned times and how many ways am I going to have to say “I’m sorry”? As much as I hate making our private spats public I’ll say it all here just strictly so you can’t keep holding it over me!
Look, I am SORRY! Hear that? S-O-R-R-Y!!!
For the 300th time in two weeks-
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If I had known that your friend was such a “green freak” and PETA member I never would have worn the seal skin blazer. You could have tipped me off a little there!
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If I’d had any idea your cousin was really a nun I never would have said “who’s the twinky dreamboat” (which I still assert was not and could not reasonably be interpreted as an insult) and I never would have even pulled her onto my lap, let alone put my hands there.
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If somebody (and I’m not saying you, just somebody) would have had the courtesy to tell me your friend was Mormon I never would have done that Brigham Young, Joseph Smith and Moroni at a strip club finger puppet show with the crawfish heads
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If your brother was really that attached to the dog then why the hell was he letting it run around loose in the back yard when any fool would have known that’s where most reasonable people would drive when having to get away in a hurry?
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As God is my witness I have no idea how the hashish got into the baklava and it is COINCIDENCE that my initials were on the meth pipe- like there aren’t lots of other J.U.K.S.v-E.D.'s in the world!
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NO! I really shouldn’t have thrown the eggrolls at the guy in the wheelchair, but he started at by just not letting the incident with the can opener DROP! Just because he’s paralyzed from the neck down doesn’t mean he can play the victim card everytime somebody drops something hot on him or that he can hog the handicapped stall when I gotta whiz!
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Yes, in fact I did buy the “I’m sorry” pearl earrings with your debit card, but how was I to know it wasn’t your credit card? They look just alike! And so your rent check bounced… WOMAN! You’ve got a $1400 set of pearl earrings, sell 'em!
But if you want to just leave the board and what we had together over some childish misunderstandings THEN GO RIGHT AHEAD!!!
(And no, I have no idea why your next credit card statement will have those charges to the Crab Shack and the I-Phone order, but I’m sure that’ll somehow be my fault too!)
Womyn.
The ubiquitousness of the GRE does suck ass, but it’s not in fact required for all grad school. Some programs will take the MAT, for example, which apparently some people greatly prefer.
So it’s not a complete monopoly!
I realize this is like telling you that the ass-reaming you’ve just sustained was actually done with a splintery 4 x 4 instead of by a 4 X 6, but hey, I spread sunshine where and how I can. However thinly.
Hey Giraffe, if Sampiro says it’s okay, can I have post #52 as my .sig?
How 'bout it, Sampiro? I’ll be your friend…
As I’ve had to say so many times before, I fear it might be a tad too long.