<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I've been doing the Kaplan practice test, and for quantitative, I'm getting like 640... Which is horrible.</p>
<p>For the official CD that ETS sent me (Powerprep CD), I scored 740. </p>
<p>Is the ETS tricking us by sending an easier test on the CD, or is Kaplan's too tedious?</p>
<p>I can solve everything on Kaplan, but it just takes too long. It seems that Kaplan uses much uglier numbers that are hard to handle arithmetically. I never had problems with arithmetic on the official ETS sample test the way I do with Kaplan.</p>
<p>So, I guess my question is, has anyone taken the actual test who prepped with Kaplan? Is the actual arithmetic as ugly as Kaplan makes it?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I found Kaplan Q to be tougher than ETS PowerPrep and the real test. It's all a big commercial conspiracy.</p>
<p>Several years ago when I prepared for the MCAT, Kaplan had practice tests that were significantly more difficult than the real thing. You have to admit that there is a conflict of interest when a test prep company decides how ready you feel to take an exam.</p>
<p>If Kaplan over-preps, that would be good. But if they just have you go on a tangent, prepping for stuff that doesn't even matter, that would **** me off. </p>
<p>I remember for the SAT, I used this great book called Gruber's. That thing was AWESOME. It was written by only one guy, but he had a better feel for the advanced questions than anything I have ever seen. It's like he was on the test-writing committee or something. I wish he did a prep for the GRE. :(</p>
<p>I scored significantly higher on the actual GRE's than I did on any of the Kaplan prep-tests that I took - and I took quite a few. - and I took the GRE on 3 hours of sleep (Pre-test insomnia).</p>
<p>Then again, the ETS practice test I took I scored in the Kaplan range as well. I was pleasantly surprised with my GRE results.</p>