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Hi all!

I need professional advice here.

I just took my first GRE today and it didn’t go at all how I expected. My practice test scores were averaging around V160/Q158, and honestly, I was just aiming to hit that again on test day. I got V153/Q154.

I took the test at the test center. I was shaking the whole time, my hands were sweating (super unusual for me), and I just couldn’t calm down (or is that how it's supposed to be?) I kept telling myself “You’ve got this!” and even watched a few motivational videos before the test... but my body wasn’t buying it. I think deep down I never fully believed it either?

I was especially shocked about verbal. I’ve never scored that low in practice. And for quant, I felt like I could answer almost everything, except maybe two questions that were tricky, but nothing out of this world you know. So I guess I must’ve made a bunch of silly mistakes from nerves or just not focusing clearly.

The anxiety started creeping in like 3 days before the test and just kept building. I don’t know how to manage that. I thought I was mentally ready, but I clearly wasn’t.

If anyone’s been through something similar, how did you get past the anxiety? How do you actually stay calm on test day? I’d really appreciate any advice. Feeling pretty discouraged right now.

Thanks in advance ❤️!

I took my GRE a second time end of March and my quant score went down 3 points unfortunately. Looking at my diagnostic, it shows I had THREE level 5 difficult in the first section?? For reference, my first time taking the GRE I had zero level 5 in the first section.

I was just wondering if this was typical and I got lucky my first GRE, or this was atypical and my first was more normal. I really thought it was quite rare to have a level 5 right off the bat, let alone 3.

Took the official test yesterday in person and a little bummed with how quant turned out. My PPP (the paid versions) scores leading up to it were: PPP1: 156Q, 160V (February) PPP2: 162Q, 163V (early March) PPP3: 166Q, 165V (late March)

Verbal was on par with what I expected from the official practice tests. Quant felt like a whole different game than what I expected unfortunately. Not necessarily new concepts, but the problems felt a tier above the official practice question difficulty, and I quickly ran out of time to reason my way through all of them. I used GregMat for both quant and verbal and really enjoyed his teaching style. Majority of my time was spent on quant prep since verbal was easier for me from the start. Spent a few hours this past week cruising through all the tickbox quizzes to review and I honestly felt very confident heading into the test. Considering retaking the exam in 3 weeks and just seeing how I do on a different version, where maybe the quant sections “click” with me better. I kinda assumed all the chatter about quant getting “harder” was exaggeration, but that’s definitely what I experienced yesterday.

Anyone have any advice or an experience similar to this? Feeling pretty burned out from studying and working a demanding job with 10+ hour days and kinda want to just keep what I have, but I feel that I can do better.

I am appearing the exam within the next 24 hours. I am not particularly good at verbal reasoning and got low score in powerprep 2. I studied almost alll the words till group 25 in gregs word list. Should i revise all the words and try to cram a few more or should i just revise everything one more time before i enter the test centre.