How can I improve my scores

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I recently took the GRE (first attempt, 3 days ago) and scored 157Q, 145V. I had prepared for around 2 months using third-party resources. While my math fundamentals are solid, I struggle with time management in the quant section. Verbal is where I have the most difficulty, even though my vocabulary is decent—I’ve learned over 1000 GRE words in my prep. Despite being familiar with many words, I find it hard to apply that knowledge when solving verbal questions.

I plan to retake the GRE on November 15th, and my goal is to score 320+. I’ve decided to follow the GregMat+ one-month plan diligently. I’m wondering if this plan will be enough to help me reach my target score, especially in verbal, or if there’s something else I should consider adding to my prep. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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Anyone looking for advice to improve their score should start with the following:

Watch the following videos (1.5x speed if you want):
Four Keys to a High Quant Score - Four Keys to a High Quant Score (An Important Class) - GregMat
Four Keys to a High Verbal Score - 4 Keys to a High Verbal Score - January 11, 2022 - GregMat

Take the following quizzes:
Arithmetic: https://forms.gle/1yNWtpatymwLQFDN7
Algebra: https://forms.gle/Jbe9Y3MysMZSkmR89
Coordinate Geometry: https://forms.gle/QX5NC8VzH41pema39
Geometry: https://forms.gle/9eSu7Kb27Tsrqu2r8
Data 1: http://forms.gle/8MGpxzFJRvwaxKGg7
Data 3: https://forms.gle/85PkubBzwZ3AFCNKA

Please share your scores for these with us. You should do these untimed, slowly and carefully using paper, the only thing you can’t do is google things or look at your notes.

This would help us better determine what we should do for Quant.

  1. Go to https://www.gregmat.com/skill-building/generated/vocab-check
  2. Set the groups to all the groups you’ve learned
  3. Set the word count to 30
  4. Complete around 10 of these
  5. Tell me your scores on those.
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Thank you so much for the response!
i watched both the videos thoroughly and completed all the quizzes you provided
Following are my scores on all the quizzes:

Quants:

  1. Arithmetic - 28/50
  2. Algebra - 20/36
  3. Coordinate Geometry - 16/38
  4. Geometry - 36/44
  5. Data 1 - 18/30
  6. Data 2 - 12/15

Verbal:

  • For the vocab check, I included all the groups as all the vocab practice I had done till now was not from GregMat.
  1. 16/30
  2. 22/30
  3. 20/30
  4. 25/30
  5. 24/30
  6. 21/30
  7. 19/30
  8. 20/30
  9. 17/30
  10. 19/30

Clearly there’s many aspects which need to improved :grimacing: .
Please take a look at these scores and let me know what steps I should take.
At the same time, I’ve started with the one month plan and will be sticking to it till my exam.

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It seems like you’re lacking in the first key for both Quant and Verbal.

Your best bet is to go through the overwhelmed plan and rebuild the foundation/vocab taking a lot of care to ensure you make time for the memorisation so you don’t forget this stuff.

@Leaderboard any thoughts?

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That yes - so either the I’m Overwhelmed study plan and then the 1-month study plan, or the 1-month plan in itself would be needed. Strategies are also important.

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