GRE Practice Test Frustrations
Posted by Nicole Sharp on 05 November 2005 at 10:31I purposefully got up early this morning (for a college student, at least) so that I would have time to take one of the full length computer-based practice tests they have on the GRE website. I download the software, install, and open it, only to discover that it's worthless to me. Their PowerPrep software requires that the moniter be set to 640 x 480 pixels, and the lowest resolution my laptop's moniter is capable of is 800 x 600. This means that, when I, say, open the practice test, I can see the first half a line of both of the writing questions, but I can't get the gist of either of them, nor can I see any way to navigate so that I can answer the question or escape the test I'm not capable of answering.
This is entirely too frustrating. I'm going to have to go do something like install this program in Nord and sit there for four hours just to take a practice exam and get an idea of what my scores are likely to be. Not that I have five hours laying around to just go do that...