<p>Hey everyone, I just took the GRE, but had to cancel my scores due to what I perceived as a poor performance. More specifically, I quit the test after the quantitative section because I know I did so poorly on it. I'm quite frustrated right now, for I studied for weeks yet my performance did not meet my expectations. </p>
<p>I have a few questions:</p>
<p>1) Is quitting the test the same as canceling the score? I assume it is (I seem to remember the computer saying that, but I was somewhat distraught at the time). Is there anything else I need to do or is the score officially canceled? Additionally, how will this show up on the score report when I do eventually sent results to universities? Will it count against me significantly?</p>
<p>2) Any recommendations as to GRE math prep books?</p>
<p>3) Any suggestions on simply how to relax? Once I start the math section I seem to shut down once I get to a difficult problem. After that I start to panic and begin guessing... sigh.</p>
<p>Just my two cents, but I don’t think you should ever, ever quit the test. In reality, you were likely not doing nearly as poorly as you thought you were. </p>
<p>I was freaking out during the Quant section of my test too - it’s always been my weak spot and I was barely breaking 600 on my practice tests - but then when I got my scores, I did just fine on the Quant.</p>
<p>In addition, quitting the test means that there’s no score. Everything is basically deleted right then and there so you don’t have to worry about schools receiving or a score of anything like that.</p>
<p>I guessed on most of the questions in the verbal and quant sections (not joking - completely random guesses on at least half of the questions on quant because I was wasted and didn’t get enough sleep) and ended up with 750+ on quant and 600+ on verbal, which was higher than my typical practice tests. That’s ****ing hilarious.</p>
<p>I agree with Captain 88. But in my case, the circumstances were a little different. I had taken the GRE once previously, and was aiming only to improve my Verbal score, since I had done very well on the QR section. However, even though I felt pretty good about the VR section, which I was given immediately after the AW section, I felt I was doing so poorly on the QR section that I almost quit the test before I finished it, due to my perception that any improvement on the VR would be nullified due to a disproportionate decline on the QR section. Case in point: I was not even halfway through the test when I realized that I had 10 minutes left. I had to skip (as in guess) on all the data interpretation questions after I spent about 3 minutes on just one of the questions for that part. I also did not manage to even input an answer for the last 5 questions. I honestly thought I wasn’t in my right mind when I decided to accept my scores anyway at the end. Guess what? I did just fine also. I got a score in the 600s, which, while was in fact a decrease from my original score, wasn’t that big, in my opinion, to negate my much more substantial increase in performance on the VR section. </p>
<p>Long story short, and captain88 put it well, you aren’t likely to be performing as poorly as you think you are. Just take a deep breath, and then accept your scores. Only don’t accept it if you know that your top schools will only take your most recent score, and not the combined best as most schools will.</p>