Math Subject GRE prep

[AvailableProject1234]

Can someone give me some tips for doing well on math gre subject test — it’s the 2nd time I have messed it up pretty bad.

Also does anyone have any rough estimate for raw score to percentile on this test?

[mathph]

Can someone give me some tips for doing well on math gre subject test — it’s the 2nd time I have messed it up pretty bad.

Also does anyone have any rough estimate for raw score to percentile on this test?

I don't know about the raw scores, I'm pretty sure they changes over time you can probably google it.

As for tips to do well on the math GRE test, fwiw I did almost all the exercises in Stewart's thick calculus book and also did a lot of problems from Schaum's outline in Calculus, differential equations, abstract algebra and linear algebra.

[fiveier.analysis]

Yes definitely do all if not most of the problems in schaum's calculus. It's probably sufficient to just do the first couple chapters for schaum's diff eq, linear algebra and abstract algebra.

I basically studied only out of schaum's outlines. Reading whatever textbook for your courses i.e. Rudin, Artin, Munkres doesn't help much honestly to the math GRE. I would focus on Schaum's calculus, do so much problems to the point that you can do them under a minute, otherwise you won't have much time left to tackle problems beyond calculus in the exam.

I focused on reviewing course materials in my earlier attempts and got terrible scores like 660. Then I focused on the schaum's outlines and got an 880. If you're from a smaller school like mine that's not well known or reputable or have a phd program, your math GRE scores really really helps.

[anticategories]

Honestly when I took calculus in high school so by the time I was preparing for the math GREs I was terrible at calculus and diff equation problems. Schaum's is essentially a problem bank, but I gone a step further and find problems elsewhere as well like standard calculus texts or other calculus problem books. You'll ultimately want to see problems made up by one than one person imho since there's nevertheless a pattern to how problems are made if it's coming from only 1 person

[fiveier.analysis]

Integrating is hard seriously. I'm pretty sure if I'm asked to integrate 1/x^2 from -1 to 1 I would have just applied the FTC like a freshman without giving it a second thought.

I think I've already forgotten how to integrate by parts, substitution and change of variables.

[anticategories]

Integrating is hard seriously. I'm pretty sure if I'm asked to integrate 1/x^2 from -1 to 1 I would have just applied the FTC like a freshman without giving it a second thought.

I think I've already forgotten how to integrate by parts, substitution and change of variables.

Been there done that.

[fiveier.analysis]

Integrating is hard seriously. I'm pretty sure if I'm asked to integrate 1/x^2 from -1 to 1 I would have just applied the FTC like a freshman without giving it a second thought.

I think I've already forgotten how to integrate by parts, substitution and change of variables.

Been there done that.

Call me a jerk, but if and when I get to teach calculus, I'm definitely putting that question on an exam.

I took ap calculus bc in high school and my teacher pulled that on me. Like:

part (a) State the fundamental theorem of calculus
part (b) Evaluate 1/x^2 from -1 to 1

and when majority of us screwed up on that question he pointed at part (a) and said 'you guys dug your own grave'

[mathph]

Integrating is hard seriously. I'm pretty sure if I'm asked to integrate 1/x^2 from -1 to 1 I would have just applied the FTC like a freshman without giving it a second thought.

I think I've already forgotten how to integrate by parts, substitution and change of variables.

Been there done that.

Call me a jerk, but if and when I get to teach calculus, I'm definitely putting that question on an exam.

I took ap calculus bc in high school and my teacher pulled that on me. Like:

part (a) State the fundamental theorem of calculus
part (b) Evaluate 1/x^2 from -1 to 1

and when majority of us screwed up on that question he pointed at part (a) and said 'you guys dug your own grave'

you asked for it
You're a jerk.

don't be so cruel