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The students who want to beat a harsh exam, specifically the Gre test in 2019, have at their disposal every possible tool to crack it most efficiently: books, mock trials, practice questions, tips tricks, advice, communities full of useful and passionate discussions to achieve the best GRE score.

As you know, or should, the GRE is composed mainly of two difficult sections: the quant and the verbal section. Even though we will cover the latter in a separate moment, the quant section is probably the section that intimidates most of the students.

To address it, the students try everything they could. Unfortunately, they do not obtain the score of their dream or worse: they fail miserably. I am getting frustrated and desperate. After this, they start over again the process, often ending in a loop.

However, I am not going to suggest you new secrets to follow or fancy new formulas that will help you in a snap. After all, type GRE quant into Google, and you will have an avalanche of information.

What if, instead, do we look at the whole story from a perspective that starts not from scratch but the underground and below? What if we start with being a better math person.

Turns out, do you think you're "not a math person"?

The answer to the question above is that every person on earth can be if he/she wants. Please, focus even for one second more on these few words: if he/she wants. As it turns out that means every person who wants tackle not only the quantitative reasoning section of the GRE test but also being a better person at decision making should and might be a better “math person” according to Po-Shen Loh - Associate Professor of Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University.

The GRE tests your decision making and analysis skills, not your math knowledge.

Ok, I am also honestly adding that there is much debate that the GRE, even GMAT or other alike exams, does not test and shows whether you do have intelligence or less. That is not the point. The point of it all is: what can I do to overcome the quant section?

From that, one could think that math is just a recital of formulas, memorizing geometry triplets; the list could go endlessly. Well, probably the answer is yes, but it is not so much useful for your goal. The main things to concentrate on understanding are the mathematical principles of reasoning.

Often mathematics is difficult. Consequently, the concepts related to it or a tricky question at any level, being a problematic quantitative comparison question rather than the Fermat theorem, are abstract somewhat because of its network of prerequisites; which means the concepts are strictly related or chained in sequences of dependencies.


In mathematics, you have very few that you memorize and the rest you deduce as you go through, and this chain of deductions is, in the end, critical.

Other subjects, such as history or learn a new language, every concept is not so strictly related. You can grasp the overall meaning or situation even though you miss a small chunk of the entire puzzle.

Let say you talk with a nonnative English speaker. Probably he or she say: I drinking water.
This phrase is incomplete, also wrong, because the auxiliary verb is missing but…ehy you are still able to grasp the course of action correctly.

Mathematics does not work this way: even if the smallest piece of the chain is missing then you lose the grasp of the entire system, and it fells apart.

Mathematics has fewer concepts than other fields of study. However, they are linked to them, deeper. Moreover, because of the way we usually learn when you have deep chains, it is very fragile because you lose anyone link.
Probably the best way to address this and conversely to solve easier any math question or problem is to treat your prerequisites in math – which means being as strong as iron at your math fundamentals – and training to follow the chain without missing any links through practice your mathematics.

Thinking through the lens of this framework would change mathematics from being the hardest subject to the easiest subject.

The question is: can I have a top score for the GRE??

sure, you are not missing any possible link in the process when you attack a question.