This is a super valuable post, thanks for writing it!
I performed unexpectedly well on the GAMSAT, the Australian graduate medicine entrance exam that is somewhat similar to the GRE, and also helped write a few chapters of a GAMSAT textbook by a tutoring company. With the caveat that I haven’t taken the GRE, I agree completely with all the above advice.
I especially want to encourage repeatedly taking exams in exam conditions with time conditions. An additional tip that worked well for me is conducting ‘post-mortems’ - going back over your practice exams and categorising the questions you got right and wrong to identify relative weaknesses for you to target. That probably worked better for the GAMSAT’s science section than the GRE, but I can imagine detecting patterns in what verbal/quant questions you find difficult, which could be informative for later study.
This is a super valuable post, thanks for writing it!
I performed unexpectedly well on the GAMSAT, the Australian graduate medicine entrance exam that is somewhat similar to the GRE, and also helped write a few chapters of a GAMSAT textbook by a tutoring company. With the caveat that I haven’t taken the GRE, I agree completely with all the above advice.
I especially want to encourage repeatedly taking exams in exam conditions with time conditions. An additional tip that worked well for me is conducting ‘post-mortems’ - going back over your practice exams and categorising the questions you got right and wrong to identify relative weaknesses for you to target. That probably worked better for the GAMSAT’s science section than the GRE, but I can imagine detecting patterns in what verbal/quant questions you find difficult, which could be informative for later study.
Cheers!