About the GRE
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27 Nov 2020, 03:50
Hi there! I am new to GRE prep club and I don't know if I can post here. If anyone out there wants help, please reply me.
I have recently started preparing for the GRE test. I don't know anything about the preparation sites and my friend suggested to join in The Princeton Review as it is really good in our city. Due to this pandemic, the offline classes were converted to online classes. I felt that they were not delivering the concepts well maybe its due to the change in the session type. But I felt Quantitative reasoning is a little bit easy when compared to verbal reasoning. I am not saying that Princeton is bad or anything. All I am saying is that it's difficult for me to do online classes. I come from engineering background so maybe that's the reason for thinking about quant easy. I took the British Council English score test and my level is C1-Advanced, though I think my level is Intermediate. The verbal is challenging to me and the strategies used in The Princeton Review are hard. I think maybe I can master them through practice.
I took the practice test in The Princeton Review portal and got 157 in Quant, 2 in AWA and 145 in verbal. After taking the test, I felt the GRE is a little bit easy as I got 302 in total in the first attempt. I got a real doubt here that was the first test set to be easy for the students or did I feel it was easy? I want to improve my overall score to 325+. How can I achieve it? Are only Princeton's portal videos and drills sufficient? If not, what more should I do? Can you tell me how many more hours are needed, in addition to 6hrs per day, to achieve 325+ score? I have the official GRE guide from ETS. If I have to buy Manhattan 8 strategy books, is one sufficient? Are they really necessary after 8 practice tests from Princeton, 4 tests from ETS? And also if I have to practice is more, then where should I practice questions?