Quant Section problem solving too slow

GRE Quant Problem Solving
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Hey everyone, I recently posted the other day about when I should take my exam and I did good on the second GregMAT mock exam that I took. I got a 160 Q and a 156 V. I am fairly happy with these scores but would like them to be near the 60th percentile. However, I took the PowerPrep 1 exam yesterday and got absolutely throttled by the second quant section cause I was out of time and had like 5 unanswered questions. However, the first quant section I got 11 out of 12 (the one I missed was because I ran out of time and did not get to answer it), and was very surprised by this. Additionally, all of the quant problems that I had time to sit and look over I got right, it was the guesses with a minute left that I got totally wrong on the second section. I seem to have the most trouble with finding the right approach or not understanding what I am supposed to find occasionally. Any tips or videos to recommend, I really need to take the GRE soon and to hit these high percentiles. Also, any tips for saving time on the reading comp section in verbal would be amazing too.

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I would watch the below videos:

  1. Four Keys to a High Quant Score - Four Keys to a High Quant Score (An Important Class) - GregMat
  2. Four Keys to a High Verbal Score - 4 Keys to a High Verbal Score - January 11, 2022 - GregMat
  3. Time Management for the Shorter GRE - Managing our Time for the New GRE - GregMat

It is important to see how much time you are spending on some of the Quant questions. Generally, some questions could take under a min, a min and a half, or two minutes. Are you regularly spending more than 3 minutes per question on multiple questions?

I would follow Greg’s suggestion of following the order of Multiple Choice → Quant Comparison → Multiple Choice - Select → Numeric Entry. Feel free to skip any hard questions or ones you find difficult. Let’s knock out the easy ones first, then medium, and finally hard ones.

For the RC, I would make sure you are strong on each of the skills (Main Idea, Simplifying Sentences, etc…) Weakness on one of these can often lead to spending too much time on a question and potentially getting it wrong. How much time are you spending per question?