demonyob

I wrote my GRE exam today. I am writing to this forum because it helped me to clarify myself and what to expect from the real GRE test. All the scores presented in this forum had very high GRE scores. I got pretty bad score and it can be useful to students who are scoring pretty badly in the practice test to estimate how well they are going to fare in the real test. Following are my practice test and actual test scores. Power Prep 1: V=144, Q=154, total=298 Date: 22 Sept 2014 Power prep 2: V=140, Q=154, total=294 Date: 29 Sept 2014 ETS Paper 1: V=145, Q=155, total=300 Date: 1 Oct 2014 ETS Paper 2: V=140, Q=155, total=295 Date: 3 Oct 2014 Actual Test: V=146, Q=148, total=294 Date: 7 Oct 2014 I followed Barron's test material and ETS official book only. I think i got 292 in the first barron's test and 306 in the second barron's test. I took those test 1 years before writing the exam. My verbal was very weak. I only followed ETS practice test. I collected all the unknown vocabularies from the four test. I collected almost 100 from each test! Total was approx 400. I rounded them to around 300. Compared them with 300 Barron's high frequency words. They were almost 75 % similar! The vocab in the actual test were most of the words available in the practice test! i only did not know some 20-25 words. They were new. I should have got 155 for maths part. I did not manage time well (hard lesson learnt today). Hard to believe on myself, i attempted only 12 maths questions from each section. I was left with 2 minutes. And had to tick all those damn 8 questions randomly! I am going to write the exam again sometimes later , maybe in 2015 starting months. My Conclusion: ETS Power Prep 2 predicted my score exactly. Despite the fact that i scored 6 more in verbal section, I also scored 6 marks less in the maths section. However the total score was exactly predicted by the Power Prep 2.