[Oldman]

Yes, create a template. Princeton Review has some great tips on this. The template can be easily molded to any issue they give you. The advantage is you already have the structure in place, so all you have to do is fill in with your examples.

For the argument, the template can be even more ridgid as they use the exact same logical fallacies every time. Typically a hasty generalization from the results of a survey or study and a false analogy where they will attempt to imply that what happend to group A correlates to group B. They'll also throw some crazy circular reasoning or argument from silence into the case.

For the issue, you don't have to agree, just be objective. Also, don't disagree or agree based on your feelings, agree or disagree based on which ever side you have more examples for. All you're looking for is a score, so go with whatever side you can think of more examples for. I disagreed for my issue, but I also pointed out that there are valid points on both sides of the issue and brought up a few of the side I disagreed with to show I was being objective.


Geek Goddess:

Did you track your practice test results? I'm curious how your practice exams correlated with your actual score...did you find yourself acing all the practice exams you took after a while? Also, do you feel any of the practice matieral out there provides scores that are useful for predicting one's real GRE score? For example, I tend to do good on Kaplan exams but not on Barrons...did you find yourself acing all the practice exams you tooks or did you do better on some over others?

Thanks again for all your contributions!