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PhD Qualifying Exams -- Are they being phased out?
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[QUOTE="Vanadium 50, post: 6849197, member: 110252"] Sure, but you need to compare them to the alternative. When schools dumped the PGRE in response to Covid, the story was "we're worried about implicit bias in the test" - and then selected classes from Stanvard and snooty New England SLACs. Did that improve diversity? I don't think we have numbers, but it's hard to see where it would. If you want to know if your cohort can solve physics problems, giving them physics problems to solve is probably the best you are going to do. It's sure going to be better than looking at Mummy and Daddy's tax returns. The oral component is another matter. The written exam is uniform, but professors can ask whatever they want in the oral. "Mr. Jones, please write down Ohm's Law" "Miss Smith, define the universe. Give three examples." [/QUOTE]
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