<p>I understand that at the end of the Computer-based GRE you are given the option to cancel your test, and you are also shown unofficial scores for the verbal and quantitative sections of the test. I was wondering if anyone knew if you're given the cancellation option before or after you see the unofficial scores? Is it too much to hope for to be able to see the scores before deciding whether or not to cancel? Thanks!</p>
<p>The scores you see are your actual quantitative and verbal scores -- these will not be different on the actual score report (which only adds the writing scores and the percentiles).</p>
<p>If you say you don't want the test to count, then your scores will not be recorded, no schools will ever see it, and neither will you. By not cancelling your test, you will see your scores and at that point you cannot cancel the test.</p>
<p>You are given two options at the end of the computer based test:
1) See my score
2) Cancel my score</p>
<p>Unfortunately you don't get to see your scores before cenceling them.</p>
<p>Ha ha. If only the world worked this way!</p>
<p>Of course you are not allowed to see your scores before you cancel! If they allowed that, everyone would take it like 5 times and get a pretty good feel of what the test is like before taking it for the last time and submitting their scores.</p>
<p>A real, actual GRE test is almost impossible to find anywhere other than through ETS itself. All practice GRE tests you will find online and in prep courses are only approximations at best. To get actual GREs you have to buy them off of ETS. Moreover, when you actually go to take the GRE, they make you sign a statement saying that you will not take any examination material out of the testing room.</p>
<p>All designed to ensure that the test is as random as possible and everyone gets a fair chance.</p>
<p>Actually, the Power Prep software from ETS is as close as you can get to the real thing without giving away the test questions. There used to be the "Big Book," which had GRE tests from previous years. Although it is out of print, you can still get it through used bookstores, I believe.</p>