Discrepancy Between Paper and Computer ETS Test Scores
I am in the midst of writing the GREs, and my experience is a bit out of the ordinary since I'm doing all of this in S. Korea. My GRE is administered in two halves, the Analytical Writing is computer based and the Quantitative and Verbal are paper based. I will write 2 quantitative sections and 2 verbal sections (30min/each, 2 hours total) this coming Saturday morning. I'm under the impression that they all count.
I'm worried about the disparity between the computer-based ETS practice I've been doing and the paper-based practice. I took my second paper based exam last night. I nearly scored a perfect 800 on my practice verbal, but for the math I crashed and burned. I didn't make it over 500. I've consistently been scoring close to 650 on the ETS computer practice tests, but they allow you 45 minutes to do 28 quantitative questions rather than 30 minutes to do 30. I think on the first paper practice test I got the average for humanities students, a 550. For philosophy I've been told that it's not super important to have a high quant score, but math is like logic, and logic is important to philosophy, so bombing on the quant section is not really acceptable. I don't have much time left to practice and I'm not optimistic that I am going to make my goal of 600Q. I need to score at least a 1250 total, and although I did that yesterday in spite of less than 500Q, I'm still worried.
Has anyone else practiced using the ETS' paper GRE? Did you find it to be harder than the PowerPrep sample tests? Were your scores better or worse on paper than on the computer?
I'm worried about the disparity between the computer-based ETS practice I've been doing and the paper-based practice. I took my second paper based exam last night. I nearly scored a perfect 800 on my practice verbal, but for the math I crashed and burned. I didn't make it over 500. I've consistently been scoring close to 650 on the ETS computer practice tests, but they allow you 45 minutes to do 28 quantitative questions rather than 30 minutes to do 30. I think on the first paper practice test I got the average for humanities students, a 550. For philosophy I've been told that it's not super important to have a high quant score, but math is like logic, and logic is important to philosophy, so bombing on the quant section is not really acceptable. I don't have much time left to practice and I'm not optimistic that I am going to make my goal of 600Q. I need to score at least a 1250 total, and although I did that yesterday in spite of less than 500Q, I'm still worried.
Has anyone else practiced using the ETS' paper GRE? Did you find it to be harder than the PowerPrep sample tests? Were your scores better or worse on paper than on the computer?