<p>No harm was intended. Your GRE scores seem really good, by the way.</p>
<p>I'm an example of someone who did well in math in high school but after high school, I just did not pursue the subject much. After undergrad, I worked for a few years before even deciding on a subject to study in grad school. When preparing for the GRE's, I found that I was a bit rusty on the math section and needed to review some things, though I took AP calculus in high school.
I've heard of others who didn't pursue math much after high school and felt that put them at a disadvantage when it came to the GRE's - at least compared to people who had math-related majors in college.<br>
That's where my post was coming from.</p>
<p>I think the new GRE might be easier in comparison to the SAT. The SAT was brutal and the questions were very convoluted and unfairly biased towards those who have more advanced problem solving skills. The GRE uses a more basic approach but adds several tricks that are meant to throw you off which makes it difficult. Furthermore, it seems that ones scores on the SAT tends to correlate strongly to performance on the GRE, despite the questions being a bit easier. I personally think that the GRE math is quite easy as it tests basic concepts learned in high school but amplifies the difficulty significantly. The verbal can also be tricky especially if one were not exposed to studies which allowed them to exercise their skills. </p>
<p>For me, I think that the GRE verbal is easier than the SAT Verbal and the GRE math. There aren’t a lot of questions and you don’t get points deducted for mistakes as opposed to the SAT. I also think that with practice and extensive preparation, it is possible to improve quite significantly on both components but the SAT scores tend to remain remarkably stable.</p>