paper based GRE freakout

[coffeeandmilk]

Hey gradcafe,

I took the GRE paper based last weekend and feel like I bombed my first verbal section. I spent like ten minutes stuck on a long reading passage and then could not regain my focus, and didn't answer the last few questions. I think I did better in the next, but I still left two questions blank.

I have NO idea what to expect as a score, and won't know until late november, but I am trying to decide whether I should try and retake asap.

I was hitting about 163-164 in my practice tests, and my goal is to hit the 80th percentile... do you think I should retake?? or is it possible to get a 158 (ish) by having about 34/50 questions right??

[iowaguy]

If you didn't get to all of the verbal questions I would definitely retake. It's tough to get a high score with several unanswered questions... Worst case scenario, you plan on re-taking & schedule your test (I think you still have to wait 30 days between tests), but you can cancel (with a partial refund) if your scores come back higher than you think they will...

[pemdas]

34/50 will land you around 159 for the verbal.

btw, i too sat for pbt last saturday and missed one question at the end of second math section. I also think that one question in the first math section was marked wrong, I was confused with that problem's wording. Nevertheless, I expect q170, as even with 3 mistakes in math section on pbt hard variation one should get 99 percentile in quant. I think I had hard variation of the test, as I am usually pretty fast in solving GRE math questions. In the verbal I will be hardly able to get over 60 percentile sorry non-native speaker and the test was hard at this time