Hi Guys,
I am decent in Maths and have done well in college level math courses and also in school. I find that I make silly mistakes (and also a few conceptual errors) here and there, due to which my score is stuck in the 166-167 range in Quant.
- How do I go about sharpening my skills to hit a 170/170 in quant ?
- What books do you suggest I practice from ? (My GRE is around 10 days from now)
Also I feel that I may be wrong in my attempting strategy. I spend a lot of time pondering, checking and double-checking the answer that I get instead of moving to the next question.
@the guys who scored a 170 - how did you guys approach questions ?
- Did you employ a single pass approach ? or did you first attempt all questions, marking the difficult questions to the end ? Did you double check your answers by plugging in values at the end of the test ?
I am left with two strategies:
1) To go as fast as possible in a two pass approach, at the risk of doing silly mistakes. But I can catch such errors in my second pass. The problem comes when I am stuck with tough questions (especially in the 2nd quant sections), I may not have time to come back.
2) To spend time properly, double checking the answer in my first pass itself, before moving on to the next question. This may be disastrous again if I may encounter tougher questions in the last 15-20 question range.
Kindly help me out with your advice and suggestions on strategy.