How to score 327 in gre math
I scored 327 in GRE: 170Q, 157V, and 4.0 AWA
I prepared for a total of 3 months with an ongoing job. Starting from the first official Power PREP II test. Having studied GRE Maths extensively during my Bachelors’ in Electrical Engineering, I was more concerned with the Verbal section throughout.
Preparation Sources:
For vocabulary build-up, I learned and revised almost 700 words from ScholarDen. This number is enough for around 155 – 160 score in verbal.
Being an engineer, I started studying from lessons and practice from Scholar Den. I was able to go through the Maths topics in over a week. The interface for attempting practice questions is very good at Scholar Den. It provides a detailed solution to the question, as well as the difficulty level of the question to judge how harmful it is getting a particular question wrong.
As I had graduated almost a year before my GRE exam, I was out of practice and was prone to making silly calculation mistakes. I overcame this by attempting questions from Scholar Den Question Pool. These questions were a good practice of polishing my skills.
The video lessons related to verbal techniques for sentence completion and sentence equivalence worked very well for me. I was able to save time on these questions. Reading passages gave me a very hard time and were the most challenging aspect of the test for me. Consequently, I used the technique described in the passage. This improved the reading comprehension portion a lot for me.
For AWA, I wrote 5 essays before the exam. I read almost 20 sample essays, 10 of each type to get a hang of what to write.
In the last 10 days before the test, I did practice questions from “Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions” and “Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions” followed by 3 full-length online practice tests from Manhattan prep.
On the test day, I was very nervous (slept only for 4 hours). I took some chocolates and caffeinated drinks with me to the test center. I finished second my Verbal section 3 minutes early and took a break to get relax for the last Quant section (the most difficult of them all).
Best of luck!
