The Quant Progression Timeline - From Beginner to 170
<p align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b>The Quant Progression Timeline</b></span></span></span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Foundation</span></span></span></span></span></strong>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">If you’re scoring 160 or below, you’re at the smallest dumbbell almost guaranteed. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Just start with the <a href="https://www.gregmat.com/study-plans/the-im-overwhelmed-study-plan" target="_blank">I’m Overwhelmed Plan</a>. Don’t overcomplicate it. Don’t overthink it. </span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Keep in mind this plan is mostly for quant. For verbal, keep following the One-Month Plan.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">If you’re above 160, your foundation might still need work. </span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><font face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Go to <a href="https://www.gregmat.com/misc/google-forms-scaled-score-converter" target="_blank">this page</a> and do the quizzes</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Should ideally be "very good" or at least "good"</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">"Possibly Insufficient" - <em>maybe </em>you can be somewhat targeted</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">"Insufficient", just start from scratch.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Strategy</span></span></span></span></span></strong>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Once you have confirmed your foundation is solid (not via feelings, not via practice, but via foundation quizzes), then move on to strategy.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">You can find more foundation quizzes here to confirm: <a href="https://www.gregmat.com/quizzes/collection/quant-foundation-quizzes" target="_blank">https://www.gregmat.com/quizzes/collection/quant-foundation-quizzes</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Awareness (able to list all the strategies and define them)</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Think of it like memorizing vocabulary words</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Deliberate Practice in Isolation</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">This is when you force yourself to ONLY use ONE strategy. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Search classes on “backsolving.” Search classes on “pattern recognition.” </span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Toolkit</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">You have all strategies at your disposal. You decide which strategies can be used on each problem (maybe it’s one, maybe it’s two, maybe it’s three).</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Maybe you decide which one is best</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">About flexibility </span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Untimed Practice</span></span></span></span></span></strong>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Easy -> Medium -> Hard</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">How do you know when to move on? If you’re scoring perfect or near perfect on multiple attempts of the previous difficulty.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Easy…</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">GregMat – Easy sections on the site</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><a href="https://www.gregmat.com/quizzes/quiz-group/timed-quant-section-2-easy" target="_blank">15 Question Sections</a></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Big Book sections in the GRE Big Book</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Example: 29/30, 30/30, 28/30, 30/30</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Medium…</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">GregMat – Medium GregMat sections on the site</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><a href="https://www.gregmat.com/quizzes/quiz-group/timed-quant-section-1-medium-12-questions" target="_blank">12 Question Sections</a></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><a href="https://www.gregmat.com/quizzes/quiz-group/timed-quant-section-2-medium">15 Question Sections</a>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Take them untimed, even if they say “timed.” </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Don’t put yourself in a high pressure environment</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Hard…</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">GregMat – Hard sections on the site</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><a href="https://www.gregmat.com/quizzes/quiz-group/timed-quant-section-2-hard" target="_blank">15 Question Sections</a></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Same advice as easy and medium</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Timed Practice</span></span></span></span></span></strong>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Literally the same thing, in repeat, but timed.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Start at like 1.5 time or 2x times and then move down</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Easy -> Medium -> Hard</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Mock Tests</span></span></span></span></span></strong>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">I don’t want you taking too many. When people prioritize mock tests, they are skipping a lot of steps usually.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">GregMat mock test </span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">We don’t care if we burn these. These are not very valuable.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">ETS Tests</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">These are the valuable ones. So don’t take them willy nilly and make sure you’re actually prepared via the progression timeline above.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Real Tests</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Be prepared to take it multiple times.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">You’re crazy! How dare you suggest I take it multiple times. ETS is a scam. The test is $250. Etc. Etc.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Maybe you’re not wrong, but you’re not being 100% rational. Don’t get mad. I’ll explain.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Compare the cost of multiple tests to the cost of your tuition. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">There’s more – a high GRE score opens up more doors.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Scholarships – you can actually MAKE money. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:8px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">Better, more elite universities</span></span></span></span></span>
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<li style="margin-left:8px; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%">More likely can lead to more job opportunities. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
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