Hello everyone,
I took the new GRE on august 8th. I spent 2 months studying with Princetons review's "cracking the new GRE" and Kaplan's New GRE Premier and workbooks. All prep tests I took showed a Verbal score of 550 to 650 and Quant from 730-800. So I figured my score range was pretty much set. (Needless to say I was worried because all the Phd programs in Management Sciences say they want people from 75th percentile and above.
So came the test. Analytical writting and quant were pretty much the way the Kaplan tests had. To my surprise, Verbal was a lot harder. To make it even weirder, the preliminary results were:
Verbal: 640-740 (92 to 99th percentile) !?!?!?!?!?!?
Quant 730-800 (75 to 94th percentile)
I'm not complaining at all. Just saying that something strange happened as the practice tests seemed easier and I had low scores, and so came the real deal and the test was harder and I got pretty good scores....go figure...
Anyway, 4+ hours of testing truly gets to you. I was exhausted.
Best of luck to the future test-takers.