I have used up my 3 mocks from gregmat, other than this i have done 2 free ets mocks and 1 paid, in third party free mocks i have done magoosh, kaplan, and manhattan prep by kaplan. I am close to the second round of ISB and would ideally want to give my GRE within the next 12-15 days, but wanted to ckeck if there are any more free mocks i can do to be able to keep practicing giving an exam at a stretch?
i may have princeton and manhattan review left, are these any good or should i simply go for the paid ETS one now?
the last best score i got was in manhattan prep which was 320, before that i had been getting in the range of 312-316. my goal score is 325 or more. What i need to work on more is my verbal, specifically RCs. But as I keep giving mocks i feel confident about being able to sit through a long test without panicking.
For mocks, ETS’ are the best especially with your exam this close. If you can afford it, go for another paid test. If you cannot, retake the free ones. In fact, I’d advise you retake the 3 ETS mocks, because, depending on how well you did on the first sections of the tests, there are questions that you have not seen yet from the second section. I mean the section-adaptiveness of the test only shows you roughly a third of the possible second section questions. Intentionally seek out the rest by varying the correct answers on your first medium section. I’m not exactly sure of the numbers but getting 0 out of 12, could get you an easy second section. Getting 7/12 could get you medium second section and getting 12/12 could get you a hard second section. Do this to reveal all possible second-section questions.
One important point: Do not fall into the trap of, more mocks = better performance. A lot of us fall into this trap. You need to spend more time analysing questions than taking mocks. There’s so much to learn from even questions you got correct. So pls, don’t just be taking mocks. Spend time with those mock questions, deeply dissecting, probing, analysing, etc. Vince talks about it in ETS Questions are Wasted on the Young - GregMat . Take the pains to read it