Wise words of wisdom before my GRE?

[SandS2009]

Lol! So nervous, definitely should have studied more.. anything I should keep in mind? 

[smg]

Make sure to get a good nights sleep beforehand. 

[SandS2009]

I'm taking it today! Lol at least I got that checked off, definitely slept well, shockingly

 

Make sure to get a good nights sleep beforehand. 

[GCool]

Take it question-by-question. If you don't know the answer after a minute or two, skip it and guess at the end of the section. You get the same penalty for blank answers as you do for wrong ones.

 

Also, don't expect to do awesome if you already know you should have studied more.

Edited November 11, 2014 by GCool

[SandS2009]

Thanks for that, I didn't know you get the same penalty, haha yes I know! I didn't do so bad on the practice test. Had to schedule it last minute for a grad school that has an early deadline, and with 6 classes no time ugh lol! But thanks for the info! 

 

Take it question-by-question. If you don't know the answer after a minute or two, skip it and guess at the end of the section. You get the same penalty for blank answers as you do for wrong ones.

 

Also, don't expect to do awesome if you already know you should have studied more.

[lookwhoslp]

Yes-- definitely guess if you don't know! Don't wait to guess til the end though, just incase you run out of time, its better to have an answer and be possibly right than o answer at all. So after  a minute make an educated guess and mark the question then move on... if you have time at the end then go back to the ones your marked/guessed on. Sometimes going on and coming back helps you think about the question better as well. 

Just go over the simple math rules the day before to help math go more quickly-- like divisibility rules (ie. add up the digits, if the sum is divisible by 3 then the whole number is... like 345    3+4+5= 12  and 12 is divisible by 3 so that means 345 is as well.), know the squares of 1-13, pythagorean theorem, prime numbers from like 2-19 (2 is the lowest prime # and the only even prime #)... stuff like that. I'm sure if you search like "GRE math cheat sheet" or something you'll find these all listed. Although you can do it on the calculator, if you know it off the top of your head it makes it even quicker.

Like hter person said above, just be calm and do it question by question. If you didn't know the one before just forget about and and focus on the one you have now. You can always go back and you might know how to do ones later on... so don't waste time on one question. I'd say give 2 min max for a question, even less.

[SandS2009]

Yes-- definitely guess if you don't know! Don't wait to guess til the end though, just incase you run out of time, its better to have an answer and be possibly right than o answer at all. So after  a minute make an educated guess and mark the question then move on... if you have time at the end then go back to the ones your marked/guessed on. Sometimes going on and coming back helps you think about the question better as well. 

Just go over the simple math rules the day before to help math go more quickly-- like divisibility rules (ie. add up the digits, if the sum is divisible by 3 then the whole number is... like 345    3+4+5= 12  and 12 is divisible by 3 so that means 345 is as well.), know the squares of 1-13, pythagorean theorem, prime numbers from like 2-19 (2 is the lowest prime # and the only even prime #)... stuff like that. I'm sure if you search like "GRE math cheat sheet" or something you'll find these all listed. Although you can do it on the calculator, if you know it off the top of your head it makes it even quicker.

Like hter person said above, just be calm and do it question by question. If you didn't know the one before just forget about and and focus on the one you have now. You can always go back and you might know how to do ones later on... so don't waste time on one question. I'd say give 2 min max for a question, even less.

Thanks so much that was extremely helpful, I appreciate it a lot!