GRE Rewrite- Some of the verbal section was the same!

[Dior99]

Has any ever written the GRE a second time and had the same questions show up?

In my first verbal section there were 2 writing passages that were identical to my previous sitting of the exam. (I wrote the exams about 2 months apart from one another.) And the questions they asked were the same too. I was really surprised as I assumed that their question pool would be large.

Just curious if this is common?

[midnight]

I doubt it's common as that's definitely not supposed to happen.

There's no way it was an experimental section?

[Dior99]

No, it couldn't have been experimental because I only had 2 verbal sections.

[smmmu]

It's happened to me as well, albeit on a subject test. I wouldn't be too fussed about it. There's only a finite number of questions, so they are bound to repeat occasionally.

[Mr Buttons]

I got the same exact writing prompt and I saw a question or two repeat

[antanon82]

Ditto. I rewrote the exam last week after I was unsatisfied with my November scores. Two passages were repeated.