What Rick said. I got the Kaplan book and it was helpful. Something to know going in, which I didn't realize until just before I went to take the test: you're not allowed a calculator, which was very different than my experience with the SATs and other standardized tests and which completely threw me off, not realizing ahead of time.
Basically, I was completely stressed by the entire experience and super miserable, and I spent the entire several hours in the computer lab trying not to weep (and occasionally failing at that) and wanting to bang my head against the desk repeatedly, but I came out of it with a decent score in the end. The thing to remember is that it's going to ask you at the end if you want to see your scores (and thus keep them) or discard them entirely, sight unseen, and unless you've had some sort of crazy extenuating circumstances or haven't finished a huge portion of the test, keep your scores. If you have to, you can always re-take the test, and odds are excellent that you did better than you thought you did.
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Date: 2009-04-11 08:18 pm (UTC)Basically, I was completely stressed by the entire experience and super miserable, and I spent the entire several hours in the computer lab trying not to weep (and occasionally failing at that) and wanting to bang my head against the desk repeatedly, but I came out of it with a decent score in the end. The thing to remember is that it's going to ask you at the end if you want to see your scores (and thus keep them) or discard them entirely, sight unseen, and unless you've had some sort of crazy extenuating circumstances or haven't finished a huge portion of the test, keep your scores. If you have to, you can always re-take the test, and odds are excellent that you did better than you thought you did.