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Re: GRE Math – Help! I suck at Math! [#permalink]
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in my experience if you do tons and tons of questions this path will NOT help you to improve, simply because practicing this way will only cement your bad behavior.

You should stick at the math foundation and from then move forward practice on in that area until you master every type of question and its variant as cold. When you see a question you should know already what going on and with temptation, you already do know what to do and, in case, switch on the alternative lòane to solve the problem from a different angle.

Moreover, practice for one hour or so per day. After this, your brain does not have a more absorbing capacity.


Oh definitely. I've had friends go who have had serious problems because of this, they'll do something incorrectly so many times that when they learn the mistake they've made they struggle to remember which is the correct way as it's so ingrained. Personally I skipped going over the recap as I do a large amount of maths as part of my undergraduate degree but I tend to only do a handful of questions at a time and probably spend more time going over the answers, writing into a list I have of what my common mistakes are and what the correct thing is to do with each of them before moving on.
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Re: GRE Math – Help! I suck at Math! [#permalink]
I also think it is quite helpful, once you DO feel comfortable with concepts, to try and teach the harder and more confusing topics to friends or family. Once you can teach it, you definitely know it.
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