Test Preparation

Preparation Strategy for Verbal

First you will start work on vocabulary quarter in advance. In starting you can work on 10 word lists per day, from Barrons. Then read the word lists in the morning and revision the same in evening. Slowly slowly you catch the speed of reading the word lists and also increase the number of words per day. And, then revise the reading word lists on weekends. As you will fell, only studying and memorizing words, without revision, was not of much use, every weekend you should revise the already reading words.

You can’t get good score on the basis of vocabulary, If you have not started work on RC first. Then write down the 6-7 different kind of question from a passage, and study passages had these questions in brain. The Nova series book would have separatism of RC questions. Therefor, you should work on at least 2 RC’s (from Barrons, Nova and most importantly Big-Book),along with reading word lists.

You will be finished word lists in a month before your actual exam. Once done, then you start working on Antonyms, Analogies and Sentence Completion (from the exercise books). This was purposely done, because without having the words, running on these kind of questions will feel bootless. And, also start revision of 5 word lists in a day. And also reading Nova books for some extra words, in the mean time. But, this won’t be as difficult as the Barron’s.

You will found the Analogies is quite tricky in all the verbal questions. The Nova book has different coupling of words. it can be a negative part, so you should start work on this in detail, so that you could form the relationship of head-pair correctly.

Preparation Strategy for Quantitative

For this part you should start work on all the tips and tricks given in Barron’s and try to solve the exercise problems from Nova. you will found, the degree of questions in the main test, slightly correlating the questions of Nova. From these books some topics ware read in details that is Geometry, Probability, Permutations & Combination, Ratio-Proportion. In the test, mostly questions can come from Geometry and probability for you. whereas In GRE test most of questions come from Geometry. Therefore remembering your basics of Geometry – Coordinate Geometry, Circles, Polygon properties, and so on.

Preparation for Analytical Writing

You don’t leave this part. And give some extra time to this part and study the AWM material given in Barron. Else, you would finished like others, in the main test, do not have an idea what questions is asked. Give a quick look on the most topics given in ETS website for AWM, then you have an idea of what kind of Essays are asked.

GRE Test Tips

• Give the time to solve the first 10 questions, in both verbal & Quantitative sections, since these solutions would represent your scoring in the Adaptive test. In the first 10 questions answering 5 wrong and the rest of all almost correct, will yet not give a good score. But, The first 10 answer are right and then answering wrong, say, in the last five- where you will find shortage of time, would yet, at least, be okay.
• Your Main GRE score are closely matched to your Princeton scores. Hence, give these tests only when you are ready with the preparation of all sections. Else, these tests will unnecessarily wasted.
• Please practice essays at least 3-4, since writing in the main test surround makes you a bit nervous - it is come to me. And, Since it is the first part and you do not want to screw up.