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I  would like to be able to tell you the results of my GRE practice test, but instead I can only tell you that the Princeton Review's website can suck my balls. After 20 minutes fighting to sign up to take a free practice test (some links merely take you back to the start page, so you have to hunt around to find the one that actually does what it says it does), and the unpleasant discovery that the free offer of two free practice tests advertised on the front of my practice book was no longer valid, I was then treated to the knowledge that you have to pay to have the essay section of your test scored. Fair enough, I'm not really here for the essays... but then you can't skip the essays, either. So you have to sit there to think of something to write that no one else will ever see and so you have no reason to give a shit. Okay. That's fine.

But then I started the actual test-test with a Verbal section. Each question involves at least two 'panes' to it, one with the question and one with the icons that help you navigate the test, including the 'next' and 'answer confirm' buttons. The reading comp questions involve an extra pane that contains a reading passage.

Any one of these panes is able to load improperly and display a 'Internet Explorer Cannot Display This Page' message. And they do. Repeatedly. I never got more than two questions answered before I had to sit there for several minutes repeatedly hitting F5 as first one, then the other pane came up as an error until finally everything comes up as it should and I can finally answer the question.

Not only that, but I swear whoever made those questions was on crack. There were vocabulary words that I knew didn't have their definition among the possible answers unless you did some weird lateral thinking, or reader's comp questions along the lines of 'What is the major theme of the passage' where, likewise, the actual theme is nowhere to be found in the answer choices.

Whatever. With their technical issues and the general retardation of the questions, I eventually decided that my time was better spent watching Iron Chef America's Battle Venison. Now I am literally starving and I really want something better and more tasty than I am capable of making.

Erin