Most of the time for grad admissions they use the subject GREs and almost entirely ignore the basic ones (though they require you take them). Math PhD programs don&#x27;t even care about any part of the basic GRE, just the subject test, which is used exactly how the article describes.<p>I assume in humanities programs they give weight to the verbal&#x2F;writing parts of the GRE just as a pre-filter before they examine candidates. But the quant part of the GRE is so basic (high school level, no calculus) that the difference between missing a single problem is the difference between 100 percentile and like 75 since almost everyone who is trying does unbelievably well.