Exam Taking Strategy

GRE General
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My exam is in 3 days and I have taken a few official mocks and gregmat practice test 1. I have noticed a pattern- for the first verbal and quant section, my accuracy is okay. I do not get more than 2 questions wrong across both these sections. However, as I move to the second verbal and quant sections, I tend to falter, with around 6-7 questions wrong in verbal and 3-4 wrong in quant. In quant, those are usually silly mistakes. But in verbal, I often get confused between two words in SE and the RC reading starts troubling me.

I really need to touch a 325 to get into my target school. Could you please guide me with a strategy around this? I feel it has something to do with mental fatigue but also to do with how I start rushing in verbal and my accuracy goes down. I have done quite a few practice tests on the site and my verbal accuracy for both medium and hard does not go down to 7/8 wrong as it does in the test. Maybe if I strategize well for the second verbal it would work.

Requesting you to please help!

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For verbal, the advice is to generally do loads of untimed practice until you naturally become faster at applying the strategies.

For Quant, I would focus on time management improvement by:

  1. Maintaining a high accuracy with extra time and bringing the time down slowly
  2. Doing the questions with the standard timer, starting by answering only half the questions and slowly improving this

You can use these drills to build up your timing strategies:

All of this is assuming that your issue is time management of course. For a lot of students that claim this, often the issue is lack of foundation/strategy