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  1. I got a 159 on the quantitative part of a Manhattan Prep practice test. I bought the practice test package, and this time the test (online) screwed up (probably my internet connection) so I wasted a bunch of time on the second quantitative section trying to navigate between questions, and thus didn't even answer 1/2 of the questions on the second section. I still got 159, mostly because I answered the first section almost perfectly. Frustrating, because I feel like I could have done even better had the navigation not screwed up. Since then I've tried taking a practice test again (always sans essay), basically one a day, but now I'm missing even questions on the first (easier) section. I can't get above that 159 mark, which I got the first time when I didn't know how to budget time, and the second time when the test q's weren't loading. It almost seems like there is an absolutely unavoidable form of test fatigue, where my mind simply won't perform up to par. I'm kind of stubborn, and so I try to force it, but it doesn't work. Has anyone else noticed this and gotten around it? I feel like I need to forget about my performance on this test and rejuvenate my self-confidence and motivation or something before trying again.
  2. I think you'll be ok... as someone naturally stronger in the verbal part, I always feel like the Quantitative part can be a lot of parsing English too, understanding how to rapidly translate english into math, etc. The wordy questions trip me up even more than straight math puzzles. For someone coming from overseas, they'll look at your actual math background more than the GRE i think.
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