Hi,
I will be taking the GRE in exactly 1 month from now. It will be my first attempt. I have graduated with a computer science degree. Today was my second day of preparation. I chose the 1 month plan to prepare. I am using prepswift for quant and 1 month plan for verbal. I am not having that much difficulty in solving math problems. Getting aware of the tricks will do the work for me. The issue is with the verbal section. I am very weak when it comes to reading. I am memorizing the groups from vocab mountain(it is only taking 45-60 mins to memorize each group). I have done 2 groups till now.
Moreover, I saw a video of quant in 1-month plan. It was an hour long video and you were solving ETS questions in it. I did not see those problems in the prepswift videos. Will it make any difference in my preparation? Also, I am planning to take just the checkbox quiz at the end of every column. Is that enough?
Lastly, and most importantly, suggest the best way to prepare for my GRE. My aim is to get 310+. I am not really concerned about the individual section’s score. I am good at math but very bad at verbal. I’ll do okay in writing as well I guess.
I am not having that much difficulty in solving math problems. Getting aware of the tricks will do the work for me.
I’m also from a computer science background and I’ve seen a bunch of us taking the quant section for granted. I want to caution you, knowing math, even having a career in it is not the same as doing well in the quant section. You need to have all the required base foundation material on your finger tips, you want your accuracy to be high (i.e. no silly arithmetic mistakes, errors in copying), have some grasp on strategies and time management. These are skills that require training. Then take a PP test to get a reasonable measure of your performance. I do think PP is a nudge easier than the real deal, but my sample size for a confident judgement is low.
I got 158Q on my 1st attempt which was heart breaking but was able to push it to 165Q by working towards it. It’s not to hard to find the same statements of disbelief when people in STEM get a poor quant score. I personally found PrepSwift very useful given that I was in a time crunch and I could focus specifically on the topics I was not 100% confident in.
Also consider making an error log to keep track of the sort of errors you make.
I’ll do okay in writing as well I guess.
Here again, don’t assume. You can practice a few questions under the same time constraints using ChatGPT, which will give you reasonably good feedback and score.