How consistent are your GRE scores?

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My practice scores through POWERPREP and any other free ones I could find were pretty consistent. mid-500s for both verbal and quant, maybe breaking into the 600s.

Day of the test, I thought I did awful because I started getting some really easy questions (which told me the computer had adapted to earlier poor performance). I didn't feel confident at all, but I managed at 610v, 710q, which I'm quite happy with.

Biggest difference to me? Making maximum use of my time. Blame a poor attention span or noisy household, but it was hard to concentrate on any practice tests at home and I often rushed through them. The actual test, I took my time and toward the end I knew I had to speed up a little since time was running out. I think this is what made the difference for me, especially in the quant section.