How much does the GRE quantitative score matter in physics PhD admissions?

[Diracobama]

I was just wondering how significant the quantitative gre score was in admission decisions. My score isn't awful (76th percentile) and my pgre is 850. Just curious.

 

[radium]

They pretty much don't care about the general GRE at all as long as you get a reasonable score. Below 80th percentile might be considered low though since it is not a difficult test and you are competing with people in the humanities who may not have taken any math in college.

 

[Diracobama]

Would you recommend I take it again? Many of my grad school apps are due on Jan 15th, so I could squeeze in another attempt.

 

[Dishsoap]

That seems like a waste of time and money, unless there is some reason to believe that you would do far better the second time around.