I’m a native English speaker that took the GRE with only limited time to study. I picked up some practice tests and quickly decided to use 100% of my study time

I’m a native English speaker that took the GRE with only limited time to study. I picked up some practice tests and quickly decided to use 100% of my study time to learn vocabulary which seemed to be recommended to bump up the language sections. I learned words in context but only in a way to write a word in one context and understand a word in 1-2 contexts. I made a 20 minute “podcast” of the 200 or so new-to-me words and listened to it on repeat. The singular word I can actively recall 10 years later is “ennui” because it resonated at the time and to this day. I can probably passively recall 50 of the words. Anyway all that is to say I felt my study was a bit more on the memorization side and agree with assertions that the GRE checks test-taking abilities more than capability. The math parts are a joke as one can reverse-check answers a, b, c, d In a fraction of a time It takes to actually solve the question. Grammar parts are also a joke as native speakers can intuit “a is to b as x is to y” problems easily, but non native speakers can easily miss some nuance or second meaning. But in daily life, this linguistic problem rarely occurs without a lot of extra context or body language. Bad test overall.