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GRE test-taking strategies

GRE test-taking strategies

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GRE test-taking strategies

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- [Voiceover] I'm not perfect, and I'm guessing you probably aren't perfect either. Since we can all make mistakes and have trouble with different things, we need to think about smart test taking, so when things don't go perfectly, we know what to do. So in this video I'll give you the advice I give my private tutoring students before they take the test. Good test taking begins with awareness of your strengths and weaknesses. The best way to learn what these are is by taking practice tests. In the week before you take the real GRE, you should really be able to list what kinds of questions give you the most trouble and which kinds you find easiest. These practice tests might also reveal if you're rushing and getting things wrong, or maybe you're working too carefully and double-checking everything unnecessarily. On the real test, when you see a question in the category of questions you don't like, mark it, fill in a guess, and just move on to another question. So the idea is that if…

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