I took the GRE on October 4th and got 165V/153Q. I need at least 157Q so I decided to retake on the 11th of Nov. I just took PP2 and got 163V/153Q. The verbal drop was down to one or two stupid mistakes, so I’m sure I can replicate 165 next time. However, with the Quant, what happened was I’m OK at the medium section, much better than before (thanks to gregmat of course!). However I did well enough to get bumped up to the ‘Hard’ section for Quant #2, which is totally over my head. I got 16/20 correct on section 1, but only 8/20 on section 2.
Obviously, it’s impossible for anyone here to know for certain if I can bump my Q score by 4 points in 2 weeks. But I’m wondering how much stock I should put in this test result. Could it be an outlier? Would adding an extra week or two to my studying even make that much of a difference? Should I take another practice test in a week to reassess or will that not tell me much?
Thanks for the input, and if Greg’s reading this thank you so much for your content. Going into this I had a terrible grasp of math- like I withdrew from 3 different Calc I classes in my undergrad terrible. I’m not great now either but I have a much better understanding of some fundamentals than I ever thought possible!