<p>Just to make sure, there are no changes since last year correct? The changes scheduled for Oct 2006 were defered to 2007 right?</p>
<p>And sadly my verbal score is slowly but surely dropping according to my practice tests: 570 (before studying, three weeks ago)-->470 (last night)-->430(tonight)</p>
<p>Is there anything I can do? I'm taking it this weekend...</p>
<p>Hey, to be perfectly honest, I took the real GRE the other day and ended up getting a 570 verbal....I don't even want to mention my math score...lol. I think I will retake and study harder.</p>
<p>I honestly think the real test was not as bad as the practice ones I looked it. I think I can do better. I did horribly on practice runs but ended up scoring significantly better (though not wonderful) on the real test. I would continue to practice and don't worry too much about what the practice test says. Study lots of vocab especially because I think my downfall was not studying enough of it and thus not understanding a lot of words/word pairs on the actual exam.</p>
<p>Good luck and don't stress out too much, just take it slow and do your best. If you do badly, you could always retake. I am going to register to retake it myself only because I think I could improve. Seriously, the GRE, I think you'll find not to be as hard as some of the practice manuals and programs.</p>
<p>Hey, to be perfectly honest, I took the real GRE the other day and ended up getting a 570 verbal....I don't even want to mention my math score...lol. I think I will retake and study harder.</p>
<p>I honestly think the real test was not as bad as the practice ones I looked it. I think I can do better. I did horribly on practice runs but ended up scoring significantly better (though not wonderful) on the real test. I would continue to practice and don't worry too much about what the practice test says. Study lots of vocab especially because I think my downfall was not studying enough of it and thus not understanding a lot of words/word pairs on the actual exam.</p>
<p>Good luck and don't stress out too much, just take it slow and do your best. If you do badly, you could always retake. I am going to register to retake it myself only because I think I could improve. Seriously, the GRE, I think you'll find not to be as hard as some of the practice manuals and programs.</p>
<p>Yeah, everybody is saying I'm stressing out too much and overanalyzing everything. Even my mom said she has never seen me study so much and that I should chill out (and she's the one that's always telling me to study). I have been studying vocabulary, just that the practice tests I take hardly ever have the ones I happen to study. I can easily get all the reading comprehension questions and I can BS my way through sentence completions and analogies (to a certain extent), but antonyms really hurt me.</p>
<p>And you're right, there's really no point in stressing over this, I can always retake it. Thanks.</p>
<p>Are you using the ETS PowerPrep software?</p>
<p>I had the Barron's study book and found the sample tests on their CD were <em>significantly</em> harder than both the ETS practice tests and the actual GRE, particularly the Quantitative section.</p>
<p>In my case at least, the actual GRE and the PowerPrep practice tests were very similar - probably a quarter of the questions were actually identical.</p>
<p>So if you are using non-ETS study materials, download PowerPrep and give it a shot before you take the GRE. (You'll get a CD in the mail a couple weeks before your scheduled test date as well.)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>