The first step toward increasing your GRE Quant score is realizing that GRE Quant requires skills that are different from the math skills that you used in high school and college. The GRE Quantitative Reasoning section is more than a math test; it is also a reasoning game. So, increasing your score requires improving skills that relate specifically to the GRE Quant game.

Of course, it’s imperative that you know an array of basic math concepts, such as 30-60-90 triangle rules, Venn diagrams, the difference of squares, divisibility, patterns in units digits and in remainders, combinations and permutations, and algebraic translations, to name a few. However, you need to far surpass simply understanding those concepts; you must develop strong analytical reasoning skills.

In short, without a solid understanding of the underlying math, increasing your GRE Quant score will be difficult, but merely learning math probably won’t be sufficient to earn you a high Quant score. The key is to learn how the GRE uses basic math to create logic-based questions.

Warmest regards,

Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep