#Gre at home how to#

Any advice on how to improve the timing for math problems? Is it just practice, or should i start thinking about short-cuts for each type of problem? It certainly helps to have seen such a problem before, but i have relied more on my raw math skills and thought i could solve any problem through traditional methods. During the test, I found struggling with time management, and when the time expired, i hadn't gotten to last 2-3 Qs. I am conversant with all the prerequisite math background. I am still willing to give this one more shot, and one more month of prep. I am looking to start my second masters, and now wondering if spending time on GRE preparation is the best ROI for my time. Things have changed quite a bit, and after working for 20 years, i feel anachronistic. It used to be so easy that one from math background can go take the test with preparation of 1-2 weeks. I remember GRE from 20 years ago, when it used to be a piece of cake. If you take again, let's hope you get three verbals, and, in your practice leading up to that day, really work on finding those shortcuts so that you have enough time remaining to go through the 20 questions and find those small errors in calculation. What that means is, in practice, the people that I would predict to score very highly are the people who can finish a quant section in let's say 25 minutes or so and then use the remaining 10 minutes to clean up any errors. This is true on even the most difficult of problems. The last thing I'll mention is I've noticed ETS almost always provides 'backdoors' to the problems, shortcuts that allow them to be solved very quickly.

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#Gre at home free#

Sometimes that can color our perception of the difficulty levels on the other two sections.Īnother thing is the quant on the two free PowerPreps, most agree, is easier than the quant you'll encounter on the actual exam. The thing about getting three quant sections (which sucks by the way.I prefer three verbal) is you know one of those sections is going to be experimental and that the experimental section will have some really tricky ones. But, after reading all your comments, i believe ETS has purposely made this harder for At-Home.Īny thoughts? Perhaps, waiting until the test-centers open may be a good idea. Quant scores were very disappointing, and i thought i was just unlucky to have gotten a very difficult set. I got 160 in Quant (155 in verbal, which i couldn't care less). I could not get to all the Qs, and had to take a wild guess for 2-3 questions. Especially, the Data-Interpretation - Crazy graphs requiring cumbersome calculations. 3/4 of the Qs were not difficult, but very time-consuming. Few Qs were really hard, and they stumped me and as a result i lost a bit of flow. I took At-home GRE yesterday (Apr 25) and got 3 Quant sections.

Most of the times, i have completed with 2-3 minutes to spare. I am really good at math, and have gotten scores ranging 166 - 170 on Quant (Manhattan practice, ETS GRE Powerprep I and II). I stumbled upon this thread, and went through your experiences.