Studying hard but not seeing your GRE score improve? It might not be your effort—it might be your strategy. In this video, Erika Tyler-John, a 99th-percentile scorer (339) and top GRE instructor with 10 years of experience and 4M+ YouTube views, breaks down 6 common GRE study strategies that seem helpful but actually hold students back—and what to do instead.

What you’ll learn in this video:

1. Gaming the algorithm and why it kills your GRE score potential
2. Using Verbal answer choices as hints instead of predicting your own answers
3. Solving Quant problems “by the book” instead of thinking critically
4. Bingeing on GRE practice questions instead of learning from each one
5. Practicing only with a timer and missing key GRE study foundations
6. Last-minute cramming and why it backfires on test day

These mistakes are common—but avoid them, and you’ll put yourself on the path to meaningful score improvement.




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