How accurate is McGraw Hill?

[speculum]

Hi all,

Taking the new GRE in mid-October and I have just started to study. Took a diagnostic test before any prep and got about a 1380 (strangely, my SAT score exactly...) 620 Q, 760 V. The book is McGraw Hill's New GRE. My question is, how accurate are these scores? Is McGraw particularly easy? Is there a book that more accurately reflects the difficulty of the new GRE? My weak point is clearly math, but other than forgetting some basic concepts, I didn't find it particularly hard, which worries me...

Thanks!

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Also, what is this I hear about the first 5-10 questions in a section being the most important???

[crater21]

I took a McGraw-Hill practice test (in one of their books), and found it too easy and not reflective of the actual GRE. Kaplan, on the other hand, is pretty good.

(and, Manhattan GRE is even harder than the actual test, which is why I found it to be the most useful)

As for the first 5 - 10 questions being more important: this is no longer the case. This used to be how the old test was structured. Since the tests were adaptive by question, you would keep getting harder questions (and higher scores) if you answered earlier questions correctly. Thus, the early questions were important. But, that is not the case anymore. The revised GRE is adaptive by section. So, the difficulty of the second section will be determined by how you do on the first section. But, within a section, the order of questions will not matter.

Good luck!

[speculum]

thank you! I bought Kaplan...hopefully I won't be too disappointed with the discrepancy in scores...It also seems that the powerprep software is a pretty accurate gauge. thoughts?