Hi friendofafriend,
I had enrolled with gre edge for a 6 month prog. and went thru their coaching. After seeing my good performance in gre many of my college friends also joined there. now let me answer to some of ur points –
/* First of all i was conned into the complete fast track course*/
Are u sure u heard them correctly? Coz I had a completely diff. experience. My dad’s debit card got charged twice b’coz of some transaction error and they themselves called my dad immediately to tell him about it….they even helped us in cancelling one of the payment
/* adaptive test i gave had about 12 RC questions, 14 sc questions and rest a mixture of analogy and antonym. That is what they call "close to real thing". */
This actually proves how close it is to the “real thing”. I’m sure u know gre is adaptive test and the qns. U get depend on ur answers. So if u give wrong answer to qns. with higher difficulty u will then only get qns. with lower difficulty. Since analogy & antonym qns. Are considered to be high level u got very few of them coz u must have given wrong answers.
/* But many of the questions had confusing answers */
If the answers were confusing why didn’t u get them clarified by your SFA. Whenever I faced some issue with any Q I would just email my SFA or call them directly and they were always helpful to solve my problems.
/* Their GRE rc had 150 lines or so for 4 question. Pretty unrealistic if you ask me */
Nothing wrong in practicing tough question right? It makes u prepare for the actual gre, that is how I was able to score 690 in verbal.
/* Any ways they don't give score, they just tell you how many question you got wrong and which all questions */
They give u a score range and it is pretty accuarate, if u ask me. They predicted my score range to be 650 – 700 and I got 690.
I like ur suggestion of donating to a hungry kid but that will only help ur conscience not ur gre preparation :D
ciao
GoodSamaritan
