<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p>I am looking to buy a copy of "Practicing to Take the GRE" 10th ed. (the book from ETS) for the practice problems. Since it's all old paper-based tests, how accurate are the questions in terms of difficulty as compared to the Computer based test?</p>
<p>Thanks for the info</p>
<p>I only did the first few math sections and none of the verbal, but I can tell you that the math questions on their paper tests were much, much easier than those on the CAT. I believe verbal should be comparable. I’ve also been told that if you can get your hands on the “Big Book” (probably floating around on the internet somewhere), those are very good practice for the verbal section.</p>
<p>hey csquare, thanks for the help. Which CATS have you tried before? Is PowerPrep more accurate? I haven’t tried them yet.</p>
<p>I’ve also tried Kaplan’s Higher Score CAT tests, and the math on those seem more difficult than other practice tests I’ve done :/.</p>
<p>PowerPrep is definitely more accurate. I got the same exact score on the actual GRE as on PP2, which I took 2 days before the test.</p>
<p>I also found Kaplan’s math CAT sections to be overly difficult and felt that many of their questions were more computationally-intensive than the real ones, so don’t panic if you’re not scoring as well on those as you think you should be - I’m an engineer and consider myself pretty good at math, and I know I was second-guessing myself for a while.</p>
<p>If you’re curious, I posted all my practice CAT scores here: [Practice</a> GRE Tests vs. Real GRE](<a href=“Practice GRE Tests vs. Real GRE - Just Finished My GRE - Urch Forums”>Practice GRE Tests vs. Real GRE - Just Finished My GRE - Urch Forums)</p>
<p>Anyway, save a PowerPrep for a few days before your test, and if you can do well you’ll be just fine.</p>
<p>Hey csquare - just wondering, I was messing around with PowerPrep test 1 for the quantitative section to get a rough idea how many questions I can miss for a certain score, and it gave me a 780 for missing 7 whole questions. This seems far too high for missing that many? How well do you think the PowerPrep scoring reflects the actual GRE?</p>
<p>The PowerPrep software uses the same algorithm as the actual GRE so the scoring should be fairly accurate in theory. I think it may be possible to still do well when missing that many questions if 1) the questions you miss are NOT toward the beginning (people say the first 5-10 questions have the biggest effect on your score), 2) you don’t miss too many problems consecutively, and 3) the questions you are missing are what the ETS consider difficult.</p>