Interpreting powerprep GRE score range

[maichang]

I took my first powerprep practice test today and my score range for verbal part was 430-530 and that for quantitative part was 740-800. How should I interpret this range?

[Strangefox]

I took my first powerprep practice test today and my score range for verbal part was 430-530 and that for quantitative part was 740-800. How should I interpret this range?

What do you mean with "range"? You took the practice test once, right?

[maichang]

yeah I took it once. So does the 430-530 mean my score's going to be anything in between the two numbers or the average of 430 and 530? I guess I didn't understand why instead of giving a number it's giving me this range of 430-530....

[Strangefox]

yeah I took it once. So does the 430-530 mean my score's going to be anything in between the two numbers or the average of 430 and 530? I guess I didn't understand why instead of giving a number it's giving me this range of 430-530....

Well, that's strange. When I took the official POWERPREP practice test downloaded from the official GRE website there was no range (and it was a month ago). My score had been something like 620 verbal and 720 quantitive and it turned out to be quite close to my real results.

[DrFaustus666]

You must have taken Powerprep II .... which does give a range of scores, not an exact score.

If you plan to take the GRE before August 2011, you need to download Powerprep (the OLD version, NOT Powerprep II).

John

[maichang]

Yeah, seems like I took powerprep II. Thanks for letting me know.