GRE's coming up

[PrinceofWands]

Have to take the general GRE soon. Had a few questions for those that have taken it already:

What's the scope of the quantitative? I'm betting it's going to be my weakest area by far. I generally do ok in my math classes (thru calc anyway), but it's been spread out over 18 years and I never actually use any math outside of class.

Anything surprising or tricky about the verbal and/or writing? I scored perfect verbal SAT's (15 years ago), earned distinction awards on my college writing consistently, and am a reading whore, so unless you have some insights I don't think I'm too worried about these portions.

Best study guides and resources out there?

Thanks in advance.

 

[erub]

the quant is simple, much easier than SAT math..no calculus of course..just pick up a coupla books and do GRE POWERPREP software (its free from ETS) and use that to brush up

GRE now is a huge vocab test on the verbal, so brush up on that.. because it is adaptive, they will find some words you don't know, i can almost guarantee that I memorized a lot of words from Kaplan and PR and they helped somewhat, i definitely saw some of those on my test

as far as the writing, follow the guidelines in the book,they are looking for a plain 5 (or more) paragraph essay with a clear intro and conclusion, thesis, etc..nothing fancy

 

[LordSnailz]

bumpity -- but need more inputs on the writing and vocab part