How do I start off GRE preparing?

Jash · Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:27 am *How do I start off GRE preparing?*

Iam to take my exam on July 14th . How do I kick start .. Why do I have to learn more Vocabulary . Isn't GRE vocab enough ..... Can you please suggest me some good Reading Comprehension exercises .. Rolling Eyes

sandls816 · Mon Jun 18, 2007 23:30 pm *GRE vocabulary*

Hi
What do you mean by GRE vocab? GRE doesn't really have an official list of words that they test. Kaplan has a 3,500-word list, but GRE can throw in any word that they want.

I think, for me, improving vocabulary was the single most important factor responsible for the high verbal score.
I've spend several months doing that

First, if you are comfortable with vocab. it makes Antonym Section a breeze, which has a double benefit: not only do you get to answer these questions correctly, if you know the word you will usually answer them really fast, saving you precious time for the reading comp. and sentence completion questions.
Second, Analogy Section also relies very heavily on the vocabulary. If in RC or SC if you don't know the word, you can sometimes guess the meaning based on the context, in Analogy you really need to have at least a vague idea what the word means to answer the question correctly.

I wrote a little post about my GRE experience and books/tools that I used here: GRE Preparation
Hopefully, it will be somewhat helpful...

By the way Kaplan GRE Verbal Workbook was really useful with reading comprehension questions
Also I used several websites that have test questions, but don't remember the addresses of the top of my head, I'll see if I can find them.

Jash · Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:23 am *thanks for the reply!*

I was talkin bout my TOEFL prep .... Is necessary that I prepare vocab for my for TOEFL . I don't know how to start preparing for it !!! Very anxious !!1
I scored 1310 - Q-700 and Verbal -610 .
Please do help me .
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sandls816 · Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:02 am *How do I start off GRE preparing?*

I am not sure about TOEFL, never had to take it. I would think that vocabulary tested on TOEFL is different from GRE. I would expect GRE to be tougher, however TOEFL might deal with a wider selection of words and a broader understanding, since it's a test of general English knowledge.

suchibansal · Fri Jul 06, 2007 15:23 pm *How do I start off GRE preparing?*

It would be great if you could share with us the websites that you used for preparing....thx.

sandls816 · Tue Jul 10, 2007 23:37 pm *How do I start off GRE preparing?*

Here are some of the websites that I used:

This one is for SAT vocabulary, but a lot of these words are on the GRE:

http://www.satvocab.com/A01smartwords.html

A lot of test questions:
http://www.syvum.com/gre/

Math
http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/gre/before_test.htm

These are the ones that were in my bookmarks, I'll see if I can dig up some other ones that I used.

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