Maybe God Made It Cold to Make Me Stay In and Study

It's freezing here! Anyways, cutting to the chase:

I stil haven't finished the Percent practice exercises in the Barron's book. I just kind of decided to move on from there. I'll get back to it...hopefully. Here's how I've done in other sections:

Ratios and Proportions Practice Exercises - 23/25
Averages Practice Exercises - 16/20
Polynomials Practice Exercises - 7/15 (eeeeww...)
Equations/Inequalities Practice Exercises - 16/20

I stopped at Word Problems for now.

Since my last update I've taken two addition practice tests: the GR90-16 and the GR91-17. I'll start with the former first:

On the GR90-16 I got a 660 on verbal and a 680 on quantitative! Together, that's a 1340, an 80-point improvement on the GR86-2! Woo! Remember that on the GR86-2 I got a 610 on verbal (so then, I improved 50 points) and a 650 on quantitative (that's plus 30 points). I took this test sitting at a small living room table and timed myself. It was nice to sit in a chair instead of my usual study spot: the bed. Here's a section breakdown:

Verbal Ability, Section 1: 31/38 (questions I got wrong: 7, 13, 18, 27, 30, 35, and 36)
Quantitative Ability, Section 2: 25/30 (questions I got wrong: 12, 14, 15, 18, and 25)
Quantitative Ability, Section 3: 26/30 (questions I got wrong: 15, 25, 26, and 28)
Verbal Ability, Section 4: 31/38 (questions I got wrong: 5, 23, 24, 25, 26, 34, and 36 [23-26...that was a rough reading comprehension!])

On the GR91-17 I got a 1380! That is a 40-point improvement on the GR90-16. On this one I got a 650 on verbal and a 730 on quantitative (whoa!). So, that is a 10-point drop for verbal (but that is still relatively consistent) and an improvement of 50 points on quantitative. This one I took on my bed like I did for the first one, but it was earlier in the day (afternoon) and I hadn't had very much to eat or drink yet. Go me. Here's a section breakdown:

Quantitative Ability, Section 1: 27/30 (questions I got wrong: 12, 29, and 30)
Verbal Ability, Section 2: 29/38 (questions I got wrong: 3, 5, 10, 14, 16, 22, 34, 35 and 38)
Quantitative Ability, Section 3: 25/30 (questions I got wrong: 9, 13, 17, 23, and 30)
Verbal Ability, Section 4: 31/38 (questions I got wrong: 21, 22, 23, 24, 34, 35, and 37 [21-24...again with the reading comprehension!])

On the quantitative sections I've been pacing myself almost perfectly, but I know that I will have a lot more time for less questions when I do the CBT, so I'm okay with that. On verbal I'm averaging 8 to 11 extra minutes, so I know that I need to slow down a little. Not to mention, on the CBT there won't be especially long reading comprehension, so I have time to really concentrate on it and read slower to get more information out of the readings. On the practice tests, the long reading comprehension seems to a place where I get the most questions wrong in the verbal sections.

I finished all of the word lists (800 words, 10 words per list... 80 word lists) and the little quizzes that follow each of them in Barron's Essential Words for the GRE. For that I'm proud of myself. I started on the root word lists and it's really interesting. I know that I have to go back and spend time studying the Master Word List, but yay. I think that I've mentioned this before, too, but I've been recognizing words that I've recently learned, and when that happens on the practice tests it's really exciting for me because (for the most part) I can figure out what the correct answer is easier.

So, I've been finding a few mistakes in my GRE books. There were a few in both the Barron's GRE prep book in the quantitative review section and in Essential Words for the GRE. I think that I found one in the Princeton Cracking the GRE book, too.

Now I'm HUNGRY.