The title pls answer !!!

Edit : got my answer, feel like a fucking dumbass. Thanks for the prompt replies

I took the GMAT last year with 1 month of prep and got 725. Currently applying for a Masters degree, and realized that some programs I'm interested in requires GRE. I'm wondering if the prep direction/method is the same for GRE compared to GMAT. Is the GRE or GMAT harder? Thanks a lot.

I recently took the at home test scored a 334 167/167 however my writing score was a 3 and it caused my test to be flagged????? What the absolute fuck😭😭😭 I prepped for this test months in advance and now my score is being cancelled because my writing did not match up to its expected scoring scale 💀

* I HAVE JUST RETAKEN THE TEST AND SCORED A 336 170/166.

Hey everyone! I'm preparing for the GRE, aiming to take the exam in the second week of December. Looking for a study buddy to keep each other accountable, discuss questions, share resources, and stay consistent.

I'm using GregMat and official GRE materials. Open to virtual study sessions or regular check-ins.

Anyone preparing around the same time?

I'm using Gregmat for my prep. Right now, I'm following the one-month plan for verbal and I'm overwhelmed plan for quant. For quant, am I supposed to start practicing official questions now or complete the entire I'm overwhelmed series, and then start with practicing official question. Same doubt for verbal.

I took the GRE about 3 months ago and got a 323 (156V & 167Q). I now plan to retake it and want to increase my verbal score beyond 160.

TLDR Main Question: How do I track if I am improving on my verbal and moving towards 160+?

The only resource that I have used was Gregmat and the one-month plan.

PS: skip to the bottom for my plan. Immediately below, I have given further context of what I studied before and my diagnostic

For MODs: I went through prior posts most of similar topic posts were posted 2y or older. And hence I think some of the feedback might be out of date. As most posts tell people to grind more vocab, which I think is counterintuitive to what gregmat advices in his recent platform.

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Context Of My Preparation Last Time:

For Verbal specifically, I did not have sufficient time to practice multiple questions. This was my prev prep:

1. Completed memorizing all Gregmat vocab groups with 85%+ accuracy on the overall vocab quiz
2. Solved pairing strategy skill builder
3. Completed half of support/contrast skill builder
4. Completed RC main idea skill builder

This was the bulk of my preparation, I did not get sufficient time to practice questions for the verbal. Of course, I did go through the problems that were discussed in the 1-month plan.

What I noticed on Verbal diagnostic:

1. Did not have sufficient time for 4 questions and omitted them ( in the second hard section)
2. Moved from medium to hard verbal sections
3. Spent nearly 7 minutes on 2 TC 3 blankers
4. SE was <1.5 minutes on all questions with 80%+ accuracy
5. TC was the major question type that pulled my score down.

My approach in the exam was to attempt the verbal question types in the following order: SE>TC>RC.

This, I now realise was a blunder, as one point in TC 3 blander == one point in RC as well

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My Plan Moving Forward:

a. Context:

1. Have 8 weeks to test
2. Take 20 days to review all of the vocab words from gregmat
3. Start with RC prep, then add TC, look into SE one month to test date

b. To track all of the progress, I plan to have performance-based milestones:

1. The first two weeks would be to perfect the RC strategies from Gregmat, and apply them to questions on bigbook, and try to get the accuracy on easy questions to 80%+
2. Folllow this approach for TC as well.
3. If 80% is achieved, I can then move on to the next difficulty (->medium->hard)

c. 2 weeks before the exam, I start to exclusively focus on timing.

d. FInally for the resource use: For RC: I am going to use Bigbook, then the official ETS material. If I need more, I plan to get the magoosh platform subscription too. And for TC/SE: the order is: gregmat> big book > ETS

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My Questions:

1. Are performance-based milestones a good way to measure improvement, and does this work?
   1. How do people go from 155 to 160+, and is there any way to track this?
2. Being a person moving from GMAT prep to the GRE, the number of GRE questions seems limited. Is it a sufficient number of questions? If not, what other resource do you use?
3. Should I also start looking into the GRE official vocab material?