Why am I so nervous?

Question

I'm planning to take the GRE in September. I have been studying with three different books: one is by Barron's, one is by Kaplan, and the other one is by Princeton Review. I just don't feel like I am retaining anything. I am an excellent student because I'm an auditory learner, and have a 3.9 GPA from college. My IQ is somewhere between 120 and 130. I haven't finished my IQ testing that I started this year with my psychologist, but I have been tested before. However, standardized tests scare me, I do poorly on them. I only scored 23 on my ACT - and many of the students in my classes who did a lot worse in the classroom work than I did scored much higher than I did.

What should I expect to score on the Verbal and Quantitative Sections? The Analytical Writing Section isn't something that I have to worry about - the college I'm planning to go to does not require any certain score on that part.

What is a normal score on the V and Q sections? How did you do on the GRE?

Answer 1

The reason why the people that did poor on classwork got a higher grade was because that they are a different type of student. If you only focus on classwork and not enough on test, that would make you nervous. If you feel that studying will help, study, but use a technique that will help you. Since you are an auditory learner, maybe talk into a recorder what exactly you need to know, then listen to it, and see if you can retain information that way. Hope it helps!

Answer 2

there is  no reason to be if you study and ask for help when you need it then you will be fine.