How many questions should I get right for a 10-point improvement?

[DogsArePeopleToo]

Hello folks,

I recently took my first full-length practice test. I have a 164 on the verbal and 149 on the quant. I'm in the general vicinity of where I want to be on verbal, but I need to get my quant up to 158-160, roughly a ten-point increase from the 149 baseline.

The question is, How many more questions do I need to get right for a 10-point scaled score increase? And as a corollary, how much score improvement can one expect on average on the GRE?

For background, I've prepped for about three weeks and am taking my first real GRE test on Sep. 19. I plan a retake in November.

Grateful for any insights.

[GREMasterEMPOWERRichC]

Hi afgun_haund,

Many Test Takers spend 3 months (or more) of consistent study time before they hit their 'peak' scores. Since you're still early-on in your studies, instead of thinking in terms of "how many more questions do I need to answer correct...", you should put your analysis into WHY you got questions wrong. While practice test review should be a bit more detailed than what I'm about to show you, here's an easy way to get started:

After reviewing this MST, how many questions did you get wrong:

1) Because of a silly/little mistake?

2) Because there was some math that you just didn't know how to do?

3) Because the question was just too hard?

4) Because you were low on time and had to guess?

Those details will help to define what you need to focus on going forward.

GRE Masters aren't born, they're made,

Rich

[DogsArePeopleToo]

14 hours ago, EMPOWERgreRichC said:

1) Because of a silly/little mistake?

2) Because there was some math that you just didn't know how to do?

3) Because the question was just too hard?

4) Because you were low on time and had to guess?

Those details will help to define what you need to focus on going forward.

Thank you! Those are excellent questions and very relevant as I am going through my answers on the test.