In late 2023, the GRE underwent a significant transformation, revising its exam pattern to introduce a shorter format. This new version of the GRE presents a unique challenge for test-takers; although it features fewer questions, each one is crafted to be trickier,...
How to memorise 1000+ GRE words (in 60 days) – 3 ultra-effective techniques
Don't want to read the full post? Read the quick summary! Or view the youtube video (remember to enable auto-captions for English) Quick Summary This blog post discusses strategies for building a strong vocabulary for GRE preparation. I highlight the importance of...
New Shorter GRE Passage Strategies for Top Scores
In a monumental shift, the GRE has said goodbye to the long and often cumbersome passages, giving you the opportunity to navigate through 3-4 shorter passages in each verbal section during your test-taking journey. This change means each passage will be under 150...
GRE Words of the Day – March 2023
As the GRE exam continues to be a popular choice for graduate school admissions, mastering a strong vocabulary is an essential part of achieving a high score. Each month, I release a new set of challenging GRE vocabulary words that are likely to appear in future GRE...
6 Best Strategies for GRE Passage Questions
Reading comprehension questions on the GRE are designed to be tricky. If you don’t know what to look for and how to decipher the passages, you will end up getting many of the answers wrong. However, the good news is that we know a good deal about how GRE crafts its questions. Below you will find some key strategies that will help you tackle reading comprehension questions with ease.
Why is the GRE Verbal so Hard?
Preparing for the GRE isn’t exactly an exciting prospect for many students. You have to study for months, solve thousands of practice questions and learn a barrage of new words with the hopes that you score high enough to get into your dream school. Add to this the stress and anxiety brought on by meeting admissions deadlines, and it’s not difficult to imagine why students dread the test.
All the 600 GRE Words you MUST Know in 2024
Learn the 600 best GRE words that have been downloaded by 350,000+ GRE aspirants and Rated 97% by actual GRE test-takers.
5 Tips for Mastering GRE Text Completion Questions
The verbal section of the GRE is designed to measure your ability to analyze and evaluate written material. Since the test’s purpose is to determine your readiness for graduate school, the passages and vocabulary you will encounter in GRE would be academic. This means you will have to memorize hundreds of new words and read up credible news journals to get familiar with the sort of language tested on GRE.
5 Tips for Mastering GRE Reading Comprehensions
GRE Verbal constitutes three question types. One of these is reading comprehension, and the other two are text completion and sentence equivalence. The objective of GRE verbal as a whole is to gauge your aptitude for grad school. Hence, the test contents are designed to test out how well you can understand and interpret complex passages. These passages are dense with high-level vocabulary, linking words and phrases, and complicated sentence structures.
How to Get 170 on GRE Verbal: Strategies by a Perfect Scorer
The verbal section of the GRE is primarily designed to assess whether you will understand and interpret written English on a Graduate level. The whole idea behind the GRE is to gauge your readiness for a graduate-level program; hence the test places so much emphasis on elevated prose. Unlike, math which is an empirical science, there are no formulas for solving reading passages. The skills needed to ace the verbal section of GRE are an amalgamation of your reading practices leading up to the test.