itsnotjustme

I just called fastlane. I talked with a guy who seemed to be generally uninformed. He had to look up the advisory, and when he did, he had no idea whether or not it was grfp specific maintenance.

Regarding the questions where you had to choose two of the words, I think I had 3 on one section and 4 on the other two. One other occurence on the test that I found strange was that my ten min. break ended and then I just sat there waiting for the test to continue. It turned out that I had to call over the proctor and have them physically enter a code to end my break and proceed with the test. I wonder what kind of dark magic ETS is going to pull trying to normalize these new scores over the next couple of months...

I also just took the Revised GRE on August 1st. Overall, I didin't think it was too bad. Due to the fact that I'm applying to engineering programs, I was focusing mainly on the Q section. I thought that the Q section was pretty similar to the ETS test prep, albeit I found the data analysis questions to be easier, while some of the algebra questions were harder. At the end of the test it gave me a score range based on the old scoring system. I ended up with a V- 530:630 and a Q-730:800 (EV: V-580 Q-770).....although I'm not really sure how meaningful that is because of the new scoring system. I had the additional V section as well. In my opinion, the verbal sections are a bit of a crap shoot. It seems a bit outlandish that you may be required to pick between involved and engaged for a sentence completion question. My AW section was about whether or not your personal indentity comes from social groups.....which was rather difficult for me. It will be interesting to see how all the new scores and percentiles work out.