Hi Greg, I am facing issue in completing hard questions quiz within time. Does the GRE hard section comprise of all the difficult questions? If so, what can I do to improve my abilities for hard questions?
Secondly, I face issue in time management despite following your strategy. Its like if 1 question doesn’t click and i skip, i have a panic mode on which leads to silly mistakes
Really need your help :-((
Letting go of questions is a skill that comes with practice
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If you perform well on your first section i.e 9+/12
You’ll get the hard second section
Which comprises of 70-80% (usually 11 or 12) level 4&5 questions (usually more level 4 than 5)
So yeah, you need proficiency with hard questions.
How to practice these?
Practice sets using the Quant problems repository
Filter for Medium and Hard problems
Do small sets i.e 5-10
Review every question (correct or incorrect)
taking the position of the test makers;
What was the key insight
What other ways could the question have been solved, both from an approach perspective and a strategy perspective
Keep an error log,
Tracking the different error types you make and where&why
Continue mixed practice based on difficulty
Work on targeted practice towards the weaknesses you identify and note using your error log
Achieve a high level of accuracy/your accuracy target based on your own target scores
Then put these sets under time oressure