How To Do Better In Revised GRE General Test

Hi all,

I took NEW GRE 3 days back.

My gre score is 336.

Split up Verbal Section GRE Score- 166
Quans Section GRE Score - 170
Expecting 5.5 or 6.0 in my essays. 

This is my second attempt. Mine was a average score in my first attempt. In my first attempt my gre scores was 1210. Q - 720 V - 490. I was completely demotivated after seeing my scores. I am working as a Senior System Analyst in Bangalore. I have 6 Yrs of experience. I'm an electronics and communication engg. I always wanted to pursue MS in a top school.

The NEW GRE is tough from all the angles. Text completion choosing 3 answers from 9 answer choices and even if one choice goes wrong and 2 correct the whole question becomes wrong. Select many RC and problem solving.Select in passage questions are all tough. Only solace is the calculator. Thanks to the GreBible. GreBible had tough questions in its practice tests, so actual GRE was easy for me.

NEW GRE tests three things:

1. Your basic intelligence (in Quanti and Reading Comprehension)

2. Your speed of responding (that's why the time limit is kept...and so, many of you who are practicing for the GRE must be finding difficult)

3. How well you perform under pressure? And also I used Barrons and Kaplan tests and bigbook. All these material are no longer useful as ets had tremendously increased the difficulty level of questions especially the quans and the reading comprehension questions.

If you are pretty clear in the above things then a good score is not that difficult.

First and foremost suggestion - Don't get tensed up. Remain cool and calm. Sometimes the only difference between a good score and a bad score is your mental strength. Just chill. No worries, no tension. Talk to yourself. Tell yourself that you can do it. If you win over your tension, then GRE is a piece of cake.

Second thing - practice is the key to success. Give as many practice tests as possible. Grebible and Powerprep are a must. You can also try out Arco.

Practice tests and the CAT tests in grebible are excellent. The difficulty level is very very high in grebible. That's the reason why I was able to score much in the verbal and in the quans.

If you go without giving practice tests, that too practice tests with difficulty high level of questions. Your chances of good Scores are negligible.

The main advantage for me was that I got 4 text completion and 2 sentence equivalence questions straight from grebible practice tests. These questions were within my fist 10 questions. That boosted my gre score. Thank god else I would have been sitting with computers and doing silly things in my office.