I only have about a month (5 weeks max) before I need to take the GRE.
It’s imperative that I get at least a 168 on the quant section.
I’ve been studying for 2 months roughly following the 2 month study plan and doing practice problems daily, focusing on the difficult/extreme ones. The issue is that I still get a lot of the practice wrong. It’s beginning to feel really hopeless
I already review my mistake and have noticed some improvement. It just doesn’t seem enough. I’m also finding it very hard to do focused studying, partially because of discouragement. I do have a strong quant background from undergrad, but something about these questions just seem to get me
I think it’s common for a lot of us in STEM related fields to underestimate quant. I did this and in the weekly Coffee QA I’ve seen many ask Greg the same.
I prepped quant for like 5-6 hours total before my 1st GRE attempt and got a 158 which shocked me. It’s been two weeks since and it doesn’t shock me anymore because there are good reasons why this happened. Greg generally calls this a weak foundation. I won’t use that term but it is related to the domain vocabulary, comprehending questions, using the correct strategy, studying & recalling key formulae.
Greg generally suggests that people in this boat watch these videos:
And also to attempt foundation quizzes untimed if you feel strongly that you know the foundation and have some other issue.
He has also mentioned that training goes in stages: foundation → strategies → untimed → timed practice. There is merit in this suggestion but you have to budget for your time and see where you are.
Maybe take these foundation quizzes and post your result here ?