You must take a mindful and methodical approach to your work when answering GRE questions. This means doing something that many test-takers dread doing: slow down. Slowing down and working carefully on the problem in front of you can greatly reduce careless errors that keep your GRE score in a holding pattern. Focus intently on each problem, working through each step as efficiently as possible without rushing.

Think of it this way: It’s better to slow down and prevent four silly mistakes, even if doing so forces you to guess on the last question because you ran out of time, than to rush through those four questions and get all of them wrong because you made mindless, preventable mistakes.