The results of the practice test are in and…

I’m not happy.
I feel like an idiot
I’m a nervous wreck

I have some catching up to do before the GRE. That’s a week from noon tomorrow. So…7 days 22 hours and 40 minutes from right now.

Allow me to be more specific. My verbal score was a 560, 82nd percentile. Had I answered 10 more questions correctly I would have scored a 650 and in the 95th percentile. Considering that 7 of the questions I got wrong were reading comprehension questions, I can definitely make this happen. (P.S. the root word studying really paid off). I have vowed to read 2 articles from the New Yorker every night from now until Sunday the 27th. With each of those articles I will ask myself about the tone of the author, his stance on the situation and the organization of the article.

Now…with as confident as I was about the quantitative section of this test, the practice quantitative section was a disaster. I got so frustrated that I didn’t finish it. Pathetic and very unrealistic considering I was trying to simulate the test environment. I have, however, pinpointed that it’s only the more complicated geometry problems, permutations and combination problems that I am really struggling with. This can definitely be remedied in 7 days. In order to aid in my quest to remedy my little math problem I went out (immediately after quitting the practice test) and purchased:

I plan on doing 30-50 practice problems a night. At that rate, by the time I get to the exam I will be more accustomed to doing 50 math problems consecutively. I’m giving myself a bit of flexibility, because I do after all have my first test for my class the same day that I am taking the GRE. Oh what fun!

Just to be safe I also purchased:

This book has quizzes after every 10 – 15 words. I am going to try to do two quizzes a day, but if things are hectic,I  am giving myself the flexibility of only doing one. I know my goals seem lax, but I can’t exactly neglect my language development class. It would be more expensive to retake that than it would be to retake the GRE

Ok so now for a quick recap. Despite my efforts to study every day for the past two months, I am going to have to cram this week. My goals are to read two articles from the New Yorker and ask myself typical reading comprehension questions;to do 30-50 math problems a night, focusing on the problems that I most struggle with; to add 10-20 new words to my vocabulary each night.

I better get started!

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