15/05/2021
Q157,V157 ETS PowerPrep 1/2
22/05/2021
Q157,V159 MP
29/05/2021
Q158,V158 MP
05/06/2021
Q159,V161 MP
12/06/2021
Q158,V159 MP
19/06/2021
Q158,V160 MP
26/06/2021
Q158,V162 MP
03/07/2021
Q161,V163 ETS PowerPrep Plus 1
10/07/2021
Q160,V159 ETS PowerPrep Plus 2
17/07/2021
Q164,V158 ETS PowerPrep Plus 3
24/07/2021
Q169,V167 ETS Redo of PowerPrep 1
27/07/2021
Q161,V159 Princeton Review Free Test 1
30/07/2021
Q161,V164 MP Redo of the first test
02/08/2021
Q168,V158 Kaplan 1
05/08/2021
Q162,V160 Kaplan 2
06/08/2021
Q166,V164 ETS Paper 1
07/08/2021
Q167,V161 ETS Paper 2
09/08/2021
Q167,V166 Real Test
Total hours of study - around 150 hours
I would re-emphasise the importance of ETS tests. Although all of my ETS PowerPrep scores were well below my real scores the types of questions, especially verbal are spot on. Real test verbal section was much easier than any practice test, especially text completions and sentence equivalence. Quant is more difficult than the practice ETS tests plus bear in mind the experimental section.
Manhattan Prep is not bad. The quant is much more difficult than the real GRE though.
Kaplan is all over the place. Verbal is absolutely useless as the answers to the questions are mostly ambiguous. Also the quant level for the second test was much more difficult than for the first test. I didn’t even bother with third and fourth. For the $150 that I have paid, I don’t think that it was worth it.
In general regarding verbal I would say that all tests apart from the ETS are really suboptimal. They focused on extremely obscure vocabulary which never came up on the real test, words like “protozoan” or “peregrinate”.
I used LSAT and a bit of GMAT material for read comp. I have learned about 1,200 words for the test but I think I could do away with 700. Also if you have time just read a lot and mark all of the unknown words, this is much better as it gives you a contextual and conceptual meaning instead of literal and instructive ones.
I also used free McGraw Hill tests just for fun but that was more of a general practice rather than a test practice.
P.S. don’t worry too much about the practice test scores as you see mine are all over the place, just make sure that you are prepared for the curveballs that will be thrown at you.
