Around this time only, last year, I’d taken the GRE for the first time. I’d expected over 325, got 321 (163Q, 158V, 4.5 AWA). I was extremely disappointed, especially with my quant performance, as I had been consistently getting 168 in all the mocks.

After a lot of thinking last month I’d again decided to sit for the GRE. This time to I went full throttle for quant, almost entirely solved the 5lb book. As it turned out, it actually worked. I scored 329 (170Q, 159V). I am elated as I finally got the quant score I had been eying for since the beginning.

Few pointers from my prep: 1. Did both verbal and quant from the 5lb book. 2. Did verbal from Princeton Review and Kaplan workbook also. 3. Attempted a few verbal tests from the big OG GRE book. 4. For vocabulary, followed Barron’s 800 words book. 5. For AWA, @gregmat 6. I had scored 334 & 332 in my PP1 & PP2 tests.

I found the quant to be tougher and more confusing (especially the stats questions) than the PP tests. In verbal, the SEs were kinda confusing.