<p>I've been studying for the GRE by way of Kaplan and was wanting to branch out in terms of practice tests. What is the best practice test that gives you real GRE scoring in an accurate manner?</p>
<p>I would probably say the GRE PowerPrep software, since it’s actually made by ETS. Scored me dead-on the first test, pretty close the second (770 and 750, respectively), but the verbal was kind of weird (540 and 590, yet got 640 on the actual). If that doesn’t work, try Barron’s.</p>
<p>To second Serric, my PowerPrep tests were within 10 points on each test (I did not study between the practice test and the actual test).</p>
<p>GRE score calculation algorithm is not in public knowledge. Kaplan is the worst because Kaplan’s score never comes even close to real GRE. Princeton seems to be the closest.</p>
<p>I agree with nupur in that the Kaplan scores don’t really come close. The only thing I really used the book for was ‘grouping’ words together (Kaplan will group words with the same meaning together, such as ‘criticism’. Since you don’t need to know the actual definition, this saves a lot of time). The rest of the book ranged from ‘slightly useful’ (special triangles, completely forgot about those) to ‘useless’.</p>
<p>did any of you take the princeton review or GRE powerprep practice tests? i got a 430 for verbal on the princeton review one, but from taking two GRE powerprep practice tests, i got 540 and 510 on those. which one is the more accurate predictor of my actual verbal score?</p>
<p>Powerprep’s the more accurate one, I’d wager. Like I said above, it was pretty much dead-on on my quantitative score, but less accurate for my verbal. It lowballed my score by 50-100 points, though, so that’s something to consider.</p>
<p>i don’t know about that, my powerprep GRE for the verbal changed from 420 on the first one to 650 on the second one. I took the two test within 24 hours. Now, I really don’t know where I stand in</p>