A GPA of 3.5?

I was reading a US college's requirements for entry to their PhD program and they require a GPA's of 3.5 or above and combined GRE's of at least 1350. What is the UK equivalent of these two requirments?

Reply 1

Drogue

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The search facility really is very useful, this has been answered many times.

However to answer your question, there is no equivalent for the GRE, you have to take it, and a 3.5 GPA roughly equates to a mid-2:1. As a ballpark figure, 3.3 = 2:1 and 3.7 = 1st.

Reply 2

Alan Smithee

To be fair, the forum (bizarrely enough) doesn't usually let you search things such as "GPA". It says they are too small.

However, the questions are annoying when there are threads of this nature on the same page, or one page away.

Reply 3

Gwai

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karlbyron

I was reading a US college's requirements for entry to their PhD program and they require a GPA's of 3.5 or above and combined GRE's of at least 1350. What is the UK equivalent of these two requirments?

GRE is an independent test of things like verbal and numerical reasoning which you have to sit. There is a centre in London and probably around Europe as well. The quantitative and qualitative segments are each scored out of 800. These stats might give you an idea of whether that's a high score or not:

http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.1488512ecfd5b8849a77b13bc3921509/?vgnextoid=e3b42d3631df4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&vgnextchannel=44ee46f1674f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD

Reply 4

Boy_41

Drogue

The search facility really is very useful, this has been answered many times.

However to answer your question, there is no equivalent for the GRE, you have to take it, and a 3.5 GPA roughly equates to a mid-2:1. As a ballpark figure, 3.3 = 2:1 and 3.7 = 1st.

This is a correct conversion of GPA to the UK system. As far as the GRE goes, the score requirements vary by program. A PhD in a quantitative subject at a top school would expect 770-800 Q and would probably prefer 500+ on the Verbal section (but verbal isn't very important). PhDs in social sciences (other than economics) and humanities would expect a more balanced score. It is also important to remember that the scale is different for Verbal than it is for Quantitative. 700 V is something like 97th percentile, while 700 Q is under 90th percentile.

A GPA of 3.5?

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