<p>its true, if you have more to gain, then you have more incentive to cheat. however, if you lurk urch.com forums or grad cafe you will read about many internationals who post stuff about how to do well on verbal (by memorizing) despite language barrier. the greater part of the score discrepancies boil down to greater effort due to greater incentives. besides, i’ve tried doing the GRE verbal WITH a dictionary and still get questions wrong T_T.</p>