andrew456

Would it be better to choose a lower ranked school where there is a higher chance of getting a good GPA or choose a very highly ranked school with a higher possibility of getting a low GPA? I'm wondering because I graduated from a top 20 engineering school with a sub 3.0 GPA and I may not fit well at a top grad school. I'm not sure if the job prospects will be better with a high GPA from a not so known graduate school vs. a low GPA from a worldwide known top university.

Yes. I also have the actual test scheduled within a month, so it seems as though they may be trying to gauge my preparation level.

Did anybody else recently receive the GRE practice invitation email from ETS to perform 7 practice tests "as a research study", each composed of 20 questions from the quantitative section of the GRE? If so, were the actual GRE questions similar to the practice tests? The email said that it is composed of real GRE questions and cover all content areas of the quantitative section of the GRE. Even though they said it "will not affect your GRE Test scores in any way," I have a feeling that it may actually be used to normalize the scores. Therefore, I am nervous about doing well on these practice tests since they may make my actual test harder. I experimented with purposely just answering all questions wrong in a set, but it seems like a multi stage test, as the next set of questions were almost identical to the previous. I may have to answer correctly to get to the hard questions.