👋 Hello, my friends at GRE Prep Club!

A question I am asked often is what Quant topics are most likely to appear on the GRE. It is a reasonable question, especially when time is limited and you want to focus your efforts where they will yield the greatest return. However, any honest and experienced GRE professional will tell you the same thing. There is no reliable way to know exactly what will show up on your exam. It does not matter how many official practice tests you have dissected or how closely you have studied past administrations. Each GRE is designed to be different, and no one can predict with certainty what will appear on any given test.

For that reason, trying to game the system by guessing which topics you might see is a risky approach. The safer and far more effective strategy is to develop solid competence across the full range of GRE Quant topics. When you have broad, well-rounded preparation, you are never walking into the exam hoping for a lucky break. You are preparing yourself for any combination of questions the test presents.

Keep in mind that the new GRE Quant section contains only 27 questions in total. That means you have just 27 opportunities to demonstrate your skills. Now imagine that you skip two major topics during your preparation, and a significant portion of your exam happens to draw from those areas. In that case, you have created unnecessary vulnerability for yourself. A few unprepared topics can quickly turn into a cluster of missed questions, and on a section with so few items, that can meaningfully affect your score.

Thorough preparation is not about covering everything at an equal depth all at once. It is about building consistent mastery over time so that no single topic can undermine your performance on test day. When you commit to that level of preparation, you put yourself in the strongest position to succeed, regardless of how the exam is assembled.

Reach out to me with any questions about your GRE prep. Happy studying!

Warmest regards,

Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep