<p>Tried to write this once but lost the page, that was obnoxious...</p>
<p>This is for people who were, like me, wanting to retake but were hesitant about the new format. I first took the old test last month and got 680Q 700V. Obviously, the 680Q is **** for engineering PhD so as much as I was worried about the new format, I didn't really have a choice. So I took it today in the revised format. Obviously, you can't get real scores until November, but it estimates that I would have received a 750-800 on both sections on the old scale. I'd love to hear from others who took the test before and after the change with a comparison... I suspect that I literally did a lot better on this test than the last (I didnt finish 6 quant questions the first time I took it...) but who knows.</p>
<p>POWERPREP II: This thing is pretty faithful to the revised format. It also estimated my score as a 750-800 on both sections (I missed 4Q and 5V questions). Here are the basic differences:</p>
<p>QUANT: Question types are largely the same except questions may ask you to select all correct answers. There is a primitive calculator, which is monumental for those who do paper calculations slowly.</p>
<p>VERBAL: Antonyms and analogies have been eliminated. Sentence completions now have a separate questions bank for each blank and you probably have to get all blanks correct to get the question correct. Some sentence completions ask for two answers that will both complete the sentence and be synonymous with one another. Some essay questions may ask you to select a sentence from the passage as answers.</p>
<p>WRITING: Essentially unchanged.</p>
<p>TEST LOGISTICS: The test is now something like the two writing sections followed by verbal pt I and quant pt I, 10 min break, verbal pt II and quant pt II. The verbal and quant parts are probably interchangeable and they'll probably throw in an experimental section but they won't identify it. You can go back and forth between questions and there is a handy mark and review feature so you can revisit difficult questions if you have extra time. Therefore, the test is obviously not computer adaptive (although I suppose there may be something adaptive going on between part I and II of each section).</p>
<p>Anyway, overall I felt like my prep for the old gre mostly prepared my and just had to be tweaked a little bit with the PPII stuff to be able to adequately take the new test. Good luck to those about to take it and feel free to post some score ranges you guys get, I'd love to try and get an idea how easy it is to get a 750-800 estimate. Not that it matters I suppose since it'll be too late to retake when I get my scores and a second retake is probably a bad idea anyway.</p>
<p>Also, the testing center was incredibly empty compared to the first time I took the test, looks like a lot of people are waiting it out. The environment was a lot less like being in a prison this time, though that may have also had to do with having been to the center before.</p>
<p>The test is half-price right now though, if anybody hasn’t noticed, and you have to take it soon if you’re applying to grad school in the fall.</p>
<p>The two sections are supposedly adaptive. So the first one is of average difficulty, and your second one depends on how well you do on your first. I couldn’t see any noticeable difference between my two verbal sections. My second quantitative section was substantially harder than the first (I ran out of time, instead of having almost 15 minutes left to spare). However, I took three quantitative sections (the third one was about the difficulty of the first), so I suppose there’s a possibility that the second was the experimental one.</p>
<p>I also got in the 750-800 range on both sections.</p>
<p>Umm, that’s kind of hard to answer, because I was so flustered and so I don’t remember details. I answered every question, even if it was just by making a spur of the moment educated guess. I think there were fully half that I didn’t spend as much time on as I would have liked, and about two or three that I pretty much guessed on. </p>
<p>They were all questions I probably would have been able to answer, given enough time, but they were more difficult than anything I saw on the practice test (the only studying I did), which was why I wasn’t ready for them.</p>
<p>Guys please can you tell me what kind of problem appear the most on the quant? like word problems or algebra ? I will take it in two weeks , and I’m more interested on the quant side . I will do my best on the verbal… I’m using Kaplan for my studies , do you think it will help? I’m applying in applied Maths for Graduate school?</p>
<p>did you guys expect that you would get 750-800 in both sections? that is to say, did you feel confident during the exam, or do you usually test well? I took the revised GRE also and got those score ranges. they’re pretty close to what Powerprep II predicted, and I was confident about most of my answers, but I am still a bit nervous about receiving my actual score. reading this thread, I am worried that they made it too easy, and the scale will bring our scores down. on the other hand, this is college confidential, and I guess that’s where you’re likely to hear about such score ranges.</p>
<p>I just took the old GRE, received 610Q and 640V, and I’m looking to get a master’s in Environmental/urban design (which falls under the umbrella of Architecture). I realize that a 610Q is not stellar for someone with no architectural background and I’m wondering if I should study for the new GRE in an attempt to raise both of my scores (especially Q) to make myself a more competitive applicant for Architecture programs. I’ve seen, in various places, that architecture programs have avg scores at, or slightly above, my score but, as I already said, I don’t have that math or design background. Does anyone have any insight into this? Am I competitive enough with an undergrad GPA of 3.6 and a fairly average GRE score?</p>
<p>Bit: the types of problems are a mix of comparisons, graphs, and algebra problems, etc. The powerprep II test that ETS gives away for free is a very good reference. I don’t know about Kaplan.</p>
<p>Faust: I feel that I am capable of 750-800 on the old test as that’s how I did on the PPI tests. Verbal, however, 750-800 is pretty hard to get… I would say that I had a “good” test though, as in, nothing seemed to go badly, whereas I choked a bit the first time I took it. Usually when I finished practice tests I got good results and I did finish within time on everything on the revised test. There aren’t any questions that I really think I missed. That being said, the math is significantly easier for me personally because of the calculator time-wise because I like to double-check things a lot. The verbal does seem a bit easier overall as well because they took out vocabulary-without-context questions. So yeah, I am also a little worried they might have made it too easy but who knows.</p>
<p>Atoled: I don’t know anything about architecture sorry lol</p>
<p>thanks for the reply. I also feel like the test went pretty well for me, in that I feel like I might have only missed one (math) question, and that it felt better than when I was taking PPII. maybe it just happened to work out well for us. it will be interesting to see how others do, and what the scores end up being.</p>
<p>I also took the revised GRE and I also scored 750 - 800 on both sections. Honestly it’s a bit worrisome to me that so many people appear to be scoring within this range.</p>
<p>I just got a 750-800 for both sections as well. My last math section (I had 3) was tough, and I’m a math major. My verbal was a lot easier than I expected, especially given Powerprep (which predicted around a 650 for verbal). Hopefully my verbal percentile doesn’t drop too much from this estimate, though…I gather the humanities programs I’m looking at tend to want 90th percentile or higher.</p>
<p>Hm. It seems as though everyone is scoring pretty high.</p>
<p>750 - 800 quant
610-710 verbal</p>
<p>I agree that it will definitely be interesting how ETS weighs it all out in the end. The exam though seem rather easy, excepting the third verbal that I received at the end which was like a battering ram.</p>
<p>I guess it probably stands to ask, for the people getting 750-800’s on their V’s: what kind of preparation did you do? Are you humanities majors? Are any of these scores dramatic increases over your previous test scores?</p>
<p>^I’m a Math-Computer Science and Classics major. I went through some vocab in books and websites, but honestly, none of the words on the exam were ones I didn’t already know. It was a pretty nice rise over powerprep 1 and 2, but I was still consistently at or above the 90th percentile on practice tests.</p>
<p>History major, heavy reader, and great standardized test taker (math and computer science minors). Took a practice test for the old GRE and did pretty well. My only practice for the new GRE was another practice test. So my score range wasn’t that unexpected given those things, but it was given how poorly I thought I did on one of the math sections. I’m guessing that that section was either experimental, or that I got lucky. Or they made the test too easy, and my actual scores will be lower.</p>