• Solving questions using time-consuming methodologies: Consider 2 students – one gets a question right in 30 seconds with 90% certainty; another spends 3 minutes on the same question to answer with 100% certainty. Although both test-takers get the question right, the latter will have much less time on later questions and therefore a higher probability of getting them wrong. We help you figure out which category you belong to and how to deal with, and organize your time around, such hurdles.

• Not taking the AWA seriously: generally Indian students, whose writing style differs greatly from their international peers, do not spend an appropriate amount of time preparing and strategizing for the AWA section. As a result they invariably score poorly in this section. Consequently even though they might have an exceptional Research Proposal or Statement of Purpose (SOP), the university admissions counselor – skeptical of the essay’s true authorship – might reject the candidate’s application.

• Getting too caught up in the detail: many Indian students, especially from technical/engineering disciplines, waste far too much time memorizing small, irrelevant details in the Reading Comprehension (RC) section passages – which in turn affects their performance in other sections.

• “GRE English”: the GRE is an American examination. Hence it tests the correct usage of the American version of English – which Indian students find confusing.

• Math section: although most Indian students find the content of the GRE Quantitative part fairly straightforward, students often trip up in the style of questioning which is essentially reasoning/aptitude based. Our students are taught to master techniques such as “guesstimation”, problem solving backwardation, relative conversions, process of elimination and world-problem-equation (WPE) building to name just a few.

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