New ETS test available: 2008
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:53 pm
Don't know if any of you noticed, but ETS has (thank god!) posted a test from 2008 in their practice book on their website.
(This resource is NOT affiliated with gre.org or ets.org)
https://physicsgre.com/
It's 2001 test. So now we have 86/92/96/2001/2008.ali8 wrote:This test (2008) is in the "preparation" material officially released from ETS.
I wonder, then, which test was available before ?
I didn't download this material in the past so I cannot judge, but I think
maybe they were posting something elese? (2007 ???)
Here you are: http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/Physics.pdfgrae313 wrote:Would someone post a link to a pdf here (I'm soooooo lazy) so that I can add the link to the stickied threads?
Wow, now I feel like wasting another 3 hours to see how I could do.physicsworks wrote:Here you are: http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/GRE/pdf/Physics.pdfgrae313 wrote:Would someone post a link to a pdf here (I'm soooooo lazy) so that I can add the link to the stickied threads?
YF17A wrote:Don't know if any of you noticed, but ETS has (thank god!) posted a test from 2008 in their practice book on their website.
physics_auth wrote:YF17A wrote:Don't know if any of you noticed, but ETS has (thank god!) posted a test from 2008 in their practice book on their website.
If this practice test was a real PGRE test then it seems easy enough to ace ... (some questions are ridiculous!). Somebody can cross-check that ... . However, while browsing the practice test I recognized around 20+ questions that appeared verbatim in April 2009 PGRE test. As far as I can remember that test was more demanding than the one released by ETS ... but there are denifinitely some practice questions that appeared in real PGRE tests (and which have decreasing probability of appearing again once released ... ). On the other hand, assuming that the released practice test is a real test ... I am surprised that around 1/5 (maybe more than that) of the questions appeared in a consecutive test ... .
I took my test in October 2009 and noticed something similar. I think the way to interpret it is that ETS does recycle questions, but in such a way that it's not terribly beneficial - if you're taking a test in October 2008, you probably are applying to grad school for '09 entry, so taking the April '09 test is useless, and many people don't take the GRE a full year ahead of time. But I think we should also assume that any questions which have been publicly released by ETS are now "retired" from the pool of questions. And I will say that this test looks ridiculously easy: I was hoping to get another "data point" from which to write preparatory material, but now I'm just confused.physics_auth wrote:However, while browsing the practice test I recognized around 20+ questions that appeared verbatim in April 2009 PGRE test. ... I am surprised that around 1/5 (maybe more than that) of the questions appeared in a consecutive test ... .
No, because it is under my impression that they do not use the same questions in the same year. I took two tests in 2009, October and November and none of the questions were the same. I also took the test in November 2010 and did notice a few similar questions, but not ~20%.ali8 wrote:And that will be unfair becouse people who have the money to take two consecutive tests will have a better chance than poor people who can afford
only one test (like me).
Funny thing, I had that urge too. So far, I've managed to fight it down. Kind of amazing, like somebody getting the urge to sign up with the army so they can go through basic training again.WhoaNonstop wrote:Wow, now I feel like wasting another 3 hours to see how I could do.
-Riley