<p>I’m assuming almost everyone else finds these extremely easy, but I’m always off by a hair when looking at bar graphs and end up getting most of these wrong. On top of that most of the graphs are very sparing in detail and are poorly labeled.</p>
<p>Anyone else experiencing this and have tips? So far this ihas made be very frustrated (even angry…at one point I thought is was even unfair).</p>
<p>I MUST get a780 -800 on the Math since Im applying to a Chemistry grad school and this section alone has prevented me from doing so.</p>
<p>Poor labels and such may just have to do with the study materials you are working with. The GRE graphs and charts are pretty clear and won’t have things like ridiculous font sizes or such.</p>
<p>Sounds like the problems you face are just issues w/ the graphics you are working with.</p>
<p>When I took the GRE in June there was a very difficult-to-read bar graph – very busy, very few tick marks, and units that were not forgiving of rough estimates. No idea if I got it right or not, and I normally LOVE the graph questions. I knew HOW to read it, I just could not get any sort of accurate read from the set-up presented. Bottom line – at that point, it’s out of your control. Just try your best. And looking at a few schools’ averages for chemistry grad students (Duke 726, U of WA 721), I think you CAN do a little worse than 780-800 and still be OK.</p>
<p>Where are you getting your practice questions from? I was having this problem, too. But after having done CATs from PR, Kaplan, etc. with pretty brutal graphs and the PowerPrep tests, I’ve noticed that the ETS questions tend to be less computationally intensive with graphs that are usually pretty easy to estimate. I took my GRE last weekend, and one of the bar graphs I got was actually labeled with the exact values right over each of the bars. Don’t stress too much!</p>