An information sending method, an information receiving method, and an apparatus are provided, to improve scheduling accuracy for a terminal device. The information sending method includes: generating a downlink channel quality report volume, where the downlink channel quality report volume is used to indicate a relative relationship between a first number of repetitions and a second number of repetitions, the first number of repetitions is a quantity of retransmissions that need to be performed in a preset downlink control channel format to achieve a preset block error rate, and the second number of repetitions is a number of repetitions corresponding to common search space of a downlink control channel carried on a downlink carrier; and sending an MSG3 to a network device in a random access procedure, where the MSG3 is used to indicate the downlink channel quality report volume.