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by searching4schools on Wed May 28, 2008 8:57 am
Ngower81,
I do hope that reading this post, you've already taken your GREs and you've aced them. I would just like to emphasize the point made by engguy, which is "you should be confident." Based on my personal experience, being nervous really works to your disadvantage on these CATs. When I was taking practice tests (and I took A LOT of those) I was doing really well - always about 700s on quant, 600s on verbal (although english is not my native language). However, once I got to the site, all this anxiety took over me and I basically panicked. I did everything wrong -- didn't take enough time on the first few questions, I was gauging how I'm doing while taking the test based on the questions they were asking, then I realized that I was getting really easy questions and so I would get even more anxious about the whole thing -- one, big, vicious cycle, to say the least. I ended up with V= 570, Q=620, a significantly worse than my practice tests. So now I'm actually considering taking them yet again (third time) but this time after a glass of wine.
Good luck to you!