Hi,


Careless mistakes are often the result of lack of practice in general.
If you are making mistakes across different topics, i.e similar levels of error in coordinate geometry and algebra, then it is possible to improve the scores with some regular practice.
I have a background similar to yours and during my first attempt I was over confident that I could easily score on the math sections. Since engineers and comp sci guys are subjected to much more complex mathmatics during their study period.

Here is a complete resource and study plan>
https://greprepclub.com/forum/gre-study-plan-2018-edition-8885.html

we also have tonnes of questions here on the forum for you to practice:

https://greprepclub.com/forum/gre-questions-by-topic-9789.html

hope this helps, best of luck
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Yeah I find my math is improving super fast upon practice and I found my self taking math diagnostic for every weekend. Now I get 80-90 percent correct on magoosh hard problems and my math scores are slowly increasing over time even after 2 weeks of practice.However,my verbal is awful seeing that I get 144 gre verbal and it has tiny improvements

You can easily add upto 10 points on your verbal if you learn more vocabulary. It is easy to get the sentence equivalence and text completion questions correct. Maybe have a look into it.
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If your problem really is just careless mistakes, then it's very simple. I had a similar background at college (math & engineering major) and all I cared about was my silly errors. Here's how I did it:

1. Find a set of tricky math problems. I had a curated set of ~160 questions that represented all the traps one can see on GRE.
2. Do them. And when you do, be as careless as you can. At this point, you want to EXPOSE all the careless mistakes you can possibly make. A perfect GRE math score does not allow ANY careless mistakes.
3. Take a look back and figure out why you made those mistakes, figure out how to avoid them in the future, make a list of actions you can take and practice them with some new questions. You want to form good habits at this point.
4. Take a look at the list you created at Step 3 the morning before the test. You got this.

This is literally what I did for my GRE math. My whole prep process for that was just one day. I made every single possible mistake I could have (I got 30% of my practice questions wrong, partially intentionally), and never made them ever again. The real test felt like a breeze afterwards.
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Prioritizing topics in Quant might really help. Geometry has found to carry less weight. There are usually only 2 or 3 questions asked – these questions tend to be quite difficult though. Most weight is carried by Arithmetic and Data analysis. Data analysis carries the maximum weight. You have probability, permutations and combinations, data interpretation then arithmetic. Algebra is intertwined with arithmetic. So these three topics carry more weight than Geometry. So when you prioritize, you prioritize those topics you’re least comfortable with
Correct me if i'm wrong.

These are the concepts you should keep first



Regards

These tips are great, thank you

Helpful. Wish i had that 160 problems resource!