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I found this practice GRE math section. Here is the link to it? Are the questions like this? This one was pretty difficult. What about the style of the problem questions, are the same or less difficult? How accurate are the results compared to the real GRE? What practice tests are most like the GRE?

http://www.800score.com/loadergre.html

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I worked through half of it before getting tired of doing it. It seems like a decent predictor of your GRE - at least, from what I remember from April, many of the questions seemed almost exactly like ones I had. It was a weird sense of deja vu. However, I should warn you that some of the questions resembled ones I encountered on the experimental math section - I'm thinking particularly of the fill-in-the-blank questions, which I don't remember getting. I think my math section that counted had no fill-in-the-blank section, although perhaps that was just luck on my part.

Anyway, I don't know much about GRE prep tests, because I didn't do many, but it seems like the website you listed is a good predictor for math.

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this website offers questions that are a lot more difficult than any of the math questions i encountered. i didn't get a stellar math score (630), but these test prep sites would have had me believing i'd be lucky to break 500 (and so i should pay for more of their products to scrape up a few more points). i'm only talking in generalities here, and mostly about things like kaplan and princeton review and even this site.

they make these prep things a lot more difficult because they want you to be relieved and attribute it to the great preparation you received. the stuff ets gives you is the best predictor of your score (it was unbelievably accurate for me), but i can't knock the kaplan math book. it was great. princeton review is also good, the only thing i will say is take the good of the preparation (it WILL get you ready for the test), but don't get down on yourself about how difficult the questions are and really don't flip out about the scores you're getting.

best of luck.

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this website offers questions that are a lot more difficult than any of the math questions i encountered. i didn't get a stellar math score (630), but these test prep sites would have had me believing i'd be lucky to break 500 (and so i should pay for more of their products to scrape up a few more points). i'm only talking in generalities here, and mostly about things like kaplan and princeton review and even this site.

they make these prep things a lot more difficult because they want you to be relieved and attribute it to the great preparation you received. the stuff ets gives you is the best predictor of your score (it was unbelievably accurate for me), but i can't knock the kaplan math book. it was great. princeton review is also good, the only thing i will say is take the good of the preparation (it WILL get you ready for the test), but don't get down on yourself about how difficult the questions are and really don't flip out about the scores you're getting.

best of luck.

Interesting. The questions were about the same difficulty as the ones I got, but maybe the test was adaptive? I seem to recall hearing something along those lines back when I was preparing to take the GRE. I won't deny they probably want your money, though.

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