How accurate are Manhattan tests?

[Harshitha]

My exam is on July 9th. I think I have covered all the topics for Quant and have memorized a decent amount of words for Vocab. Took the Manhattan free online test and scored a 319(V-162, Q-157). I was wondering, how accurate is it really? How close was the score to your actual one? 

 

Would be of great help to know!

[Cesare]

This is what I would like to know as well. I just took an ETS powerprep practice test and I scored dramatically higher. However, I don't know if this is because Manhattan is more difficult or I just remembered the exam from when I took it 9 months ago. My math was higher by 3 points and my verbal by 9....

[MadtownJacket]

From what I've heard, people generally get higher scores on their ETS test than their Manhattan practice tests.

[Harshitha]

Well, I hope that is true. But I was wondering, is it true that the Quant section in particular is harder than the actual exam? Would love to hear from people who have taken both.

[Lencias]

Based on my experience, all the non-ETS practices were harder than the ETS practice, and I consistently scored lowered on the non-ETS PT's than the ETS. But I found the actual GRE a little harder than the ETS PT, yet scored basically the exact same score I did on the PTs. *shrug*

[BF13]

Manhattan overemphasizes obscure vocabulary words. I got 164s on both sections of the Manhattan practice test, and my actual scores were within a 5 point range of those scores. I did much better on the real verbal section probably because the actual GRE focuses more on complex sentence structure/context rather than vocabulary.

Edited July 1, 2013 by BF13

[Harshitha]

Thanks for your inputs!