Hello,
I am wondering if you have any suggestions about how to best improve my quant score. Despite doing all of the assignments on the course syllabus and taking 7 practice tests, my quant score has always hovered between around 159. On the ETS practice test I got a 157 and on the actual test, I got a 156. This was the first time I took it. In terms of my actual preparation, I created flashcards and reviewed for every quant question that I ever got wrong on the practice exams and homework assignments. I also reviewed all of the quant notes provided for our online classes. I also took the quant diagnostic in the 5lb book, and did practice problems in the chapters that corresponded to the questions I got wrong.
When it comes to my experiences during these test, I notice that I always do well enough to get the difficult questions in the second quant section. Once I am doing the second section though, I rarely get more than 6 to 9 questions correct. My assessment report backs this information up. For all three quant sections (data interpretation, discrete quant, and quant comparison) my accuracy is 100% UNTIL I hit medium-hard questions. At that point, my accuracy plummets as the difficulty increases. Is there something that I am missing in my preparation? Should I focus on any specific sections of our quant resources to increase my accuracy on medium-hard and up difficulty questions? Would you recommend working off of the advanced quant recordings on the portal or actual questions provided in the ETS book?
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- jchavarin6
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- tommywallach
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Re: Improving Quant Score on the GRE
Hey Jchav,
It's difficult...close to impossible...to give people individual study plans here on the forums. Making recommendations like this would require looking through all of your practice tests and homework, particularly at exactly what you wrote down while solving these questions. At this stage, I would recommend you get some form of private tutoring (I'm not here to upsell you, so you're welcome to get in from anywhere!), so someone can do that work with you.
The short answer, however, is that your underlying skills/techniques are lacking, but you have a baseline ability that's allowing you to answer easy questions without doing the "correct" methodology. Unfortunately, this "gut" method always fails as the questions get more complicated, which is why we develop the techniques in the first place. This is a classic problem with students who do the curriculum themselves (i.e. without a teacher); they pick and choose what techniques to use, and end up struggling when the questions REQUIRE the techniques they've chosen to forego.
Hope that helps a bit!
-t
It's difficult...close to impossible...to give people individual study plans here on the forums. Making recommendations like this would require looking through all of your practice tests and homework, particularly at exactly what you wrote down while solving these questions. At this stage, I would recommend you get some form of private tutoring (I'm not here to upsell you, so you're welcome to get in from anywhere!), so someone can do that work with you.
The short answer, however, is that your underlying skills/techniques are lacking, but you have a baseline ability that's allowing you to answer easy questions without doing the "correct" methodology. Unfortunately, this "gut" method always fails as the questions get more complicated, which is why we develop the techniques in the first place. This is a classic problem with students who do the curriculum themselves (i.e. without a teacher); they pick and choose what techniques to use, and end up struggling when the questions REQUIRE the techniques they've chosen to forego.
Hope that helps a bit!
-t
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