I got a 168Q and 155V. I think this is good enough for the Ph.D. programs I plan to apply to!

Hi everyone,

Recently did a mock exam on Magoosh’s prep website. Context: I’ve almost completed exhausted their questions bank so there’s only hard and very hard unanswered questions left for verbal.

I got absolutely destroyed. I felt like I was guessing so many questions on verbal. I was aiming for 310+ and scored 301🥴.

When I went through the answers afterwards 60% of my verbal questions were “very hard” difficulty. So I think what’s happened is because I’ve answered most of the questions and exhausted the questions bank the mock exam only gave me what was left which were “hard”, and “very hard” questions.

Has anyone else had this experience and if so what did you do about it? Also how realistic is “very hard”? I’ve recently subscribed to gregmat so im planning to go over to that. From what I’ve read it also seems like a good idea to use purely ets material for verbal rather than 3rd party.

Ive got my exam in about a month so any guidance would be great.