#gre studying

oh my gooooooood i have finally caught up on my magoosh lesson videos and i am in absolute awe of the amount of math, or rather math techniques, i didn’t know. literally how did i make it through high school and college lmao?? but now i’m doing all of my practice problems and i feel good actually?? right now it’s all a matter of becoming accustomed to the types of problems and their wording. i’ve got around 400 problems to go through but i feel confident that i’ll do well on the quant portion. i know i’ll do well.

i haven’t focused much on the verbal section these days because honestly i don’t really need to? i’ve always been an ace at verbal/writing. doesn’t mean i’ll neglect it though! i’ve been doing flashcards and daily problems! 

august 28th, 2018

9.10.17 | GRE Study Challenge | Day 7/84

I finished making my own GRE formula sheet for the Quant section!

I focused on things that I need to work on and left out redundant topics I’ve already mastered

I highly recommend looking at the Magoosh GRE Formula guide [X] , as I used it heavily. But definitely supplement it with the ETS Math Review [X] and other useful tidbits you pick up while doing practice problems. 

spent most of my day at work doing retention work which isn’t very mentally taxing but very time consuming. i did read an entire book while at work because there was little else to do when daily retention is done. it’s diana wynne jones’ chrestomanci series, and it reminded me of how much i loved children’s fantasy. it was the original genre i wanted to get published in, but now i believe some of my plot bunnies are a bit too mature heh

september 23rd, 2018

So today I took a preliminary GRE practice test to gauge what exactly I need to work on-- and it's everything. I'm insanely average and need to move by 10-15 points to be competitive! But I'm not feeling discouraged. I am actually motivated! Everyone starts somewhere and that's okay if I'm not where I want to be. I know in a month or so I will have improved!