There is also information in BSU's Bracken Library and at Career Services. The ability to do well as an undergraduate is believed to be highly predictive of one's ability to do well in graduate school. Only students with very good or excellent undergraduate grades can get into graduate schools. This exam, which is very much like the SAT or ACT, is required by almost all graduate schools. The general test provide scores on verbal, mathematical, analytical subscales.
Some schools also request that students take the psychology test.
These tests are relied upon because graduate schools do not always know other ways to compare students from different undergraduate institutions. Ball State University students can pick up an information packet and test registration information in Lucina, room 366. You can contact ETS online for information about the GRE . Letters of Recommendation Letters of recommendation are most valuable when they contain information that is not available in the GPA or GRE scores. Thus letters from professors with whom you have done research and supervisors of internships are usually the most valuable.