I am just back from Princeton where we held the annual meeting of the GRE Physics Committee of Examiners, a group of six, ahem, distinguished professors (we have grey hair) who sit around a conference table working through hundreds of potential and actual Physics GRE problem. Each year new exam forms are completed, new questions added to the pool, statistics reviewed, and a good time is generally had by all.
This was my last meeting - I have served on the committee for six years. The membership rotates roughly every two years. I had been an external reviewer and problem writer for a couple years, and was then asked to serve on the committee. I am sworn to secrecy about a lot of the details, for good reason, but let me try to tell you from my perspective as an exam writer how to study for this dreaded event in ...
