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GRE Preparation

General Strategies

  • Answer the easy questions first.
    • As you go through, “Mark” questions of which you are uncertain, but think you could give a good guess for by eliminating some answer choices.
    • “Mark” questions you’ve spent 2-3 minutes on, but were unable to answer definitively.
    • Skip questions that you totally don’t know.
  • Go back to “marked” questions after completing easy.

    • Reread the question carefully with new eyes. It’s possible you misunderstood it the first time.
  • Go back to the hardest questions and at least guess on all of them (wrong answers do not hurt you).

  • Always double-check your answer and double-check what the question is asking.