Has anyone here taken the GRE recently?

[rockymountaindem]

I have a question. I'm preparing for the GRE now, and I'm doing questions from the Kaplan book and on their CD companion. Now, I know that on the real test that if you get a question right, they'll give you a harder one, and if you get one wrong, the next one will be easier. So, for those of you who might know, are the questions in the practise books considered easy, medium or hard? Are they a good mix of all of them? It would be a lot easier to see how I'm doing if I knew what difficulty level these questions are. Thanks in advance.

[Redstone]

1. No, but I used to take it for other people in the early 1970s, at

$500 a pop. This, as you can imagine, was before the days of photo driver's licenses.

Does this help?

Redstone

[rockymountaindem]

5. Mmmm... not so much

I mean, what with changes to the test and all...

[Redstone]

7. Best I had to offer. Sorry. So I'll post this reply to kick your thread

and hope someone who has a real answer sees it.

Redstone

[rockymountaindem]

9. Thanks for trying

:)

[Xipe Totec]

2. Install the GRE Prep software

It is closer to the real thing than the paper based stuff. The practice questions were a lot easier for me than the real thing. That was a shocker.

When you show up for the test, make sure you have snacks and drinks with you to take during the break. They'll make you put them away in a locker, but they'll let you access it during your very short breaks.

Make sure you are well fed before you show up too; the GRE is an endurance test as much as it is a test of knowledge and skill.

Best of luck!

[liontamer]

3. Princeton review books usually tell you the paper questions

difficulty level. But work on the computer version so you get a better idea about pacing.

[Ediacara]

4. use the software

Some prep books come with practice tests on a CD rom, and the GRE company should send a practice test CD rom in the mail. That should properly simulate a test. Kind of. I actually found the actual GRE questions totally different from the practice test. Not harder, not easier, just different.

[rockymountaindem]

6. kick

[Beetwasher]

8. I Scored Lower On The Practice Tests Than The Real Exam

I was in the 85-90% percentile on the practice exams and ended up in the 98% on the real thing, so I think the practice exams are actually a bit harder...

[fortyfeetunder]

10. I took the GRE few years ago

with the computer based test. and I practiced with the CD comparison -- also bought the book GRE for Dummies.

My take on it...the questions I thought were medium. The math for me was easy on the exam. The analytical, thought I struggled with it both on the practice test and the real thing, came out better than I thought. The big surprise was nearly bombing out on the English.