Right now I am not making much progress in my GRE score. It feels like I have hit a ceiling and I guaranteed to get 2 questions wrong every time I take a practice test. The consistency is rather frightening - I have even made a list of rules to follow whenever I do questions:
1. Read the question!
2. I have plenty of time, so calculate instead of estimating.
3. Plug in negatives, positives, zeros, and fractions whenever possible.
These basically outline my problem: I am not a good test taker. It is frustrating to know that I cannot fully grasp all the questions. They are all written in plain English and I can do all the questions, the problem is the psychology of taking the actual test.
On a related note, remember the high school senior fanaticism with webforums (I'm looking at you, collegeconfidential.com). Well graduate schools have their own parallel for each field. (http://www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/99553-faqs-about-graduate-school-economics-links-useful-threads.html) So there goes a lot of spare time. Surprisingly, looking at them does not generally make me feel more anxious. Maybe my anxiety has reached a ceiling as well.
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