The GRE is a competitive arena. In a real way, you're competing against everyone else in the entire world that is taking the GRE exam, and these people are often super smart and very ambitious. You want a top percentile score, and ETS normalizes GRE scores - meaning that no matter how people do, the scoring is curved such that only a small proportion do well. This is why it's so important to put on your war paint, as Orion explains.

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