GRE Studying

[ceitfianna]

I had forgotten just how much I hate word problems until I started studying for the GRE. I can feel myself glazing over and going I don't know how to do this.

I know I do and Kaplan has lots of good strategies and this will work but oh god the math and the tricks, make it stop.

Comments

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Ugh. This is exactly why I avoided taking the GRE.

...and now, I'm cramming for a -different- insane test. Irony.

[ceitfianna]

Which one are you studying for?

[timjr.livejournal.com]

The Series 6 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_6).

[ceitfianna]

o.O That looks complicated and not fun, good luck.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Have you tried logic problems (http://www.puzzles.com/projects/LogicProblemsArchive.html)? I've been doing them lately to work on my concentration and focus and I'm finding they really help. You can get them in book form like crosswords and word searches, too. I find those are better because they get more difficult the further in you go, so you know starting at the beginning is where the "easier" problems are.

[ceitfianna]

Oh I haven't no and thank you.

It has been helping to frame them as not math but reasoning problems but there's still that thought of I'm not good at math going on.

[canadabear.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's math. I missed that part. Still, a lot of them have numerical components to them and they will still help get your brain into "logical thinking" mode. And they're fun! Or I think they are, anyway.

[ceitfianna]

Yup, the quanititive *eyes that word* I know its mispelled but that's what they're calling it section.

Verbal I'm fine on but the math but not math questions not so much but I'll definitely try these out.