How to manage nerves? Test is in one week

Hi everyone,

I have been studying for the GRE (GMAT dropout haha) for a little over a week. My first score on my diagnostic exam I took last week was a 302 (153V149Q), I took it again yesterday and got a 309 (153V156Q). I thoroughly reviewed my questions yesterday, both my correct and incorrect answers for all testlets.

I feel like I am improving on quant, even though I get tired on the last testlet, I am understanding my mistakes on both sections, but I need to practice heavily for the harder testlet. I got 17 correct on the first testlet and 8 correct on the second hard one. I think my pain point are data interpretation questions.

For verbal, I got the same score, this is after me watching all of GreGmat’s videos and purchasing his one month plan. I have learned a little more than 600 vocab words also from last time. I think I get nervous under timed conditions. :/ For TC especially, I am tempted to look at the answer choices and choose the best answer, instead of Greg’s strategy of covering the answers and picking our own words. I feel like I lose time when I do that, but then I get the question wrong. I’m starting to use Magoosh’s vocab builder and it’s helping.

I normally get 5/7 correct questions on long passages in 14 minutes from the big book and 3/4 in 6 minutes on the small ones.

I took one of the mixed sets today from the GRE official verbal guide and got 13/25 correct which is not great. For at least 3-4 questions, I was close to getting the correct answer, but changed it last minute. How can I make sure I am not nervous on the real deal? I am confident I can raise my score to at least a 160 if I focus this week.