Depreciation is a term used for tax and accounting purposes that describes the method that a company uses to account for the declining value of its fixed assets (or tangible assets that have an estimated useful life of one year or longer).
Remember that the Verbal and Quantitative portions of the GRE have a score range between 130-170, and the average GRE score for is around 151 for Verbal and 152-153 for Quant.
The standard deviation helps illuminate how spread out from the average most of the scores for that section are. From GRE Table 1A. Based on data of all test-takers from August 2011 and June 2014, the average GRE score among all test-takers is a 150 on Verbal, a 152 on Quant, and a 3.6 on analytical writing. The GRE is designed to have a ânormalâ distribution.