Well for verbal’s everyone considers the wordlist to be the whole-n-soul of GRE verbal section. Its nothing like that. There are plenty of students who do very well in RC’s and mess up their antonyms or analogies and still come out with an awesome score. Why so? Well sometimes the RC’s have more value than other questions. It’s all on your luck. Practice strategies on analogies and sentence completions. This is a very important part of your verbal. There are many occasions when you don’t even need to know the word but with strategies you can answer the question. You might not be able to study all the words for GRE but you can apply strategies to all the words you come across. Another thing, keep revising your words. You might be able to read the entre wordlist once, but how much will you remember of the first 50 words, when you finish your entire wordlist- the answer is Nothing - the solution is Revise. The trick is to read the words on one day but revise them the next day. Revise your wordlist so much that even while u sleep and close your eyes you can remember the words. Actually recollecting the wordlist while sleeping can really give you a sound sleep. As it is most of us consider the wordlist very boring.
Read newspapers, not your own country newspapers. Newspapers like the NYTimes and other US newspapers should be helpful, especially the editors section. Listen, put some common sense, you are giving and American exam, the language they expect is the language they use. From where can you find it. Their own newspapers of course, it helps alot. You will surely find atleast 3 GRE words in each article, also you will get used to the language. For people who find RC’s tough this is an ideal way to practice. Maybe you can even time yourself.
The best book to practice verbal is GRE Big Book, although the RC’s are quite outdated. But you will find it useful for sentence completion, analogies and antonyms. You will find exactly the same kind of questions on the actual exam.
Hope this is helpful. Check out other articles too, on this site. They will help you in your exam.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
How to Ace in Verbals????
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8 comments:
hi malroy,
u said reading the editorial in NYtimes will b of gr8 help.. can u tell me which sctions come uder da under editorial section.. coz in they dont mention a sepcial column like an editorial on their site.. also u said Rc z in big book are outdated and RC from toefl text buks are good.. but most of my freinds who ve give toefl say da RCs are a lot easier in toefl... so wat do u suggest .. where do i do RC 4rm..
RC's can be done frm Kaplan and princeton....also in NY Times search for the editors section...all newspapers in the world ve an editors section...
hi malroy,
got the same doubt as aneela
if ur saying RC's of big-bk are outdated then which do we practice?
and from where?
RC's can be done frm Kaplan and princeton....and even Kaplan TOEFL iBT book....
Is it true that we get the same qustions from big book for antonmys,analogies and Sentence completion? And more over there are some site like exambell.com, which they say that they are posting new questions, how far is this ture? So, please tell me what to do, whether to study bigbook or that referred site
hii malroy,
ru sure tat for analogies n SC's doin bigbook is sufficient...coz tat is the area wher a lot of ppl struggle....
hii...
n also ppl r sayin tat threads in orkut r very much useful....n ppl r gettin the most out of it.....wat do u say abt dis??
using orkut threads is cheating....i cant comment on dat.....big book is of great help for verbal analogies n antonyms...i recommend big book...but that does not mean u shud use other materials ....u can always do frm many other books...
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