Need Help to Impove my score to 165+ in quants and 150+ in verbal.Gave the actual GRE yesterday,305, have to retake

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Hey everyone! I gave the GRE yesterday, and I ended up scoring a total of 305, with 148 in Verbal and 157 in Quants.
For my program- I need to atleast a 165 in Quants and 150 in verbal.
Quants:
I know I missed 160 in quants this time- thanks to a tricky Data interpretation problem- and ran out of time solving it.
For the remaining questions that I missed out on-
I knew how to solve most of them- but I did not have the time to solve them… (They were the lengthy ones that I left for the end)
How do I fix this?
For verbal: I’m going to try to remember the word lists this time- but I really had a hard time doing this- and sort of
gave up last time. Any tips to remember the words? I also face a problem with the reading passages- where I understand the main idea of the passage and dumbing it down to simpler terms-
but get hella confused while selecting the options- They all feel so similar- and I get them wrong. I feel this is what went wrong this time in the actual exam too.

For practice: What do I do? Do I go through Gregs- revised 1 month plan? Do I do something else? Or do I do only specific parts of the 1 or 2 month plan?
In maths- Its the harder questions I dont have time for to solve in the exam. I end up missing about 6 Questions per section- and hence resulting in 157 on the actual test, PPP1,3.
For Verbal: The same question again. I’m thinking about Just going through all the strategies once more- and then Just do problems from the big book- that are mentioned in Gregs 1month plan.
Or do I do something else too?

Next comes the question of practice papers: I have finished PP1,2 and PPP1,3. I feel doing these again might give me inaccurate scores- because when I attempted PP1 the second time-
I ended up scoring 169 on the quant section- which was clearly inaccurate of the real capability. And I do feel the level of questions of PP1 (quants) are vastly inferior to that of the real exam.
PPP1,3 were much more accurate.
I plan to re take around End of May/ early June. I want to take a break of two weeks- So I wont be starting immediately

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164V & 156Q on my last GRE, retaking on March 28th. Here’s some stuff I would do if I was in your position.

  1. Take the two month program, you have plenty of time if you’re re-taking the GRE in May/June. Give yourself time for sick days/busy days by starting the program 9 weeks ahead of your next GRE date.

  2. Watch the GregMat video on Retaking the GRE Must See Videos - GregMat. I know you said that you only missed the 160Q because you spent so much time on a particular problem, but you need to start from the ground up to consistently be scoring a 165+ on Q. I also imagine you want to do better than a 150V, even if that’s the minimum required for the program.

Most importantly, don’t trick yourself into thinking that just doing big book problems is enough. Take the time you have to build a foundation in both Math and Verbal and get an excellent score on the GRE.

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Thanks a lot for the reply :smiley: This was very helpful! I will take these into consideration- while planning out my next steps to improve my score.

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Bro what do you mean by learning the word “lists”… Isn’t knowing the meaning for all 960 words enough? Or should we memorize all the groups and the words in it?

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I mean- I was having trouble remembering the 960 word meanings- I could barely learn about 100. maybe I was learning it the wrong way- idk

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Greg recommends the Vocab Mountain, you can find links to it in the 2 and 1 month programs. I personally like Anki or any other spaced repetition flashcard system. Vocab is HUGE for the GRE, so pick a system and start working on it sooner rather than later.

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Yeah Im gonna try it out this time. I shall check out anki too.Downloading the tool right now.
Thank you soo much for this :smile: