Powerprep Quant vs Actual GRE Test Quant?

[auyon]

I know there's probably information on this floating around already, so I'm sorry if this is repetitive, but did people find Powerprep's Quant questions to be relatively the same in difficulty as the actual GRE? I'm finding that they're noticeably easier than the Quant questions from some of Kaplan's materials, so I'm just wondering which to go by. Thanks!

[notxjack]

My quant section had like six graphs in it (which I always find to be annoying due to screen glare and crap and trying to remember which shade of gray corresponds to which variable name and whatever.

Also, be sure to drill lots of the col A vs col B type questions... I had tons. Also, perimeters/areas of common shapes are a good idea to brush up on, so you can remember how to do them quickly on the test and not have to waste time deriving formulae for them.

Other than that... I found my 'real' quant section to be about on par with powerprep... though the first multiple choice section I got was (i think) an experimental quant section and would probably make a non-math person cry. It had a few sections which were open ended (wtf) where I had to type in my answers using the keyboard (wtf wtf wtf). Anyone's experimental sections have stuff like that?

[baryon]

Powerprep was pretty on compared to my actual test; similar balane of questions and type. I hate data interp. questions and estimating ETS's irksome graphs but just as in powerprep, had a bunch of those (and these typically took the longest), so practise doing those, I'd say.

I haven't done Kaplan so I don't know personally but from reading on this forum, it seems that Kaplan math is one of the more challenging ones. Barron's is decent I'd say, and Princeton Review approximated ETS reasonably though I thought Princeton was on the harder side compared to ETS (I don't know about others, but I saw quite a dearth of geometry questions in PRinceton, and disproportionately high no. of decimal/fraction and probability questions).