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GRE Practice
Dec. 7th, 2008 03:35 pmSince I'm taking the GRE's next week, I'm getting some practice work in. Results from my practice test:
Verbal 750 (only missed vocab questions ("laconic" / "voluble", "sybarite" (guessed correctly), "pusillanimous"); I need to brush up on standardized test vocab, which I will likely never use again)
Quantitative 790 (a few ambiguously worded questions, a few stupid mistakes (including an off-by-one error on a problem I knew was about off-by-one errors, gah); also, some of the trick questions are really funny)
Writing 4/5-ish? (went okay, but need to brush up on examples)
I looked over the scoring guides for the essays, which made me feel better about my chances of doing well. On the issue essay the "6" example is not all that great, filled with probably confabulated examples (NB: okay according to the ETS) and excess verbiage (good according to the ETS), and the "5" example is short and solid but nothing to write home about. On the argument essay, the "6" example is great but misses a major weakness of the argument in question (NB: graded based on what you get, not on what you miss). The "5" example for that is brief and clear, but nothing more than satisfactory.
Verbal 750 (only missed vocab questions ("laconic" / "voluble", "sybarite" (guessed correctly), "pusillanimous"); I need to brush up on standardized test vocab, which I will likely never use again)
Quantitative 790 (a few ambiguously worded questions, a few stupid mistakes (including an off-by-one error on a problem I knew was about off-by-one errors, gah); also, some of the trick questions are really funny)
Writing 4/5-ish? (went okay, but need to brush up on examples)
I looked over the scoring guides for the essays, which made me feel better about my chances of doing well. On the issue essay the "6" example is not all that great, filled with probably confabulated examples (NB: okay according to the ETS) and excess verbiage (good according to the ETS), and the "5" example is short and solid but nothing to write home about. On the argument essay, the "6" example is great but misses a major weakness of the argument in question (NB: graded based on what you get, not on what you miss). The "5" example for that is brief and clear, but nothing more than satisfactory.
