The decision is up to you. This is a 50 minute test consisting of 100 analogies. Return to top. Although grades and GRE scores are very important it is wrong to assume that good grades and good GRE scores are enough to assure you a spot in a quality graduate program. Most of your peers applying to the same graduate schools that you are applying to have good grades and good GRE scores.
Graduate schools can accept only a small percentage of the applicants.
Graduate school applications, therefore, are also evaluated in terms of the quality of an applicant's background and abilities as indicated in a personal statement and letters of recommendation. The personal statement is not just a exercise in essay writing. It is a record of your interests, accomplishments, abilities, and goals. In order to write about these things you need to have them. If you like you can couple specific intellectual interests with your emotional motivations, but don't allow your personal experiences to dominate your statement.