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05 May 2010, 21:18
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I am prepping for both GRE & GMAT. Can someone who has been through both of them or only GRE yet, share his/her experience tips/strategies and what material to use and what not to? Ironically, I can't find any good/nice forum like gmatclub.com to find debriefs, tips, strategies, and what material is useful in reality. So, I think it would be nice to start sharing tips, strategies, and recommendations regarding material here on https://www.gmatclub.com, in a GRE section as some of the top B-schools are accepting GRE and many are starting to accept it. What do you say?
06 May 2010, 09:50
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I took both and I will write-up some of what I learned at length in a couple weeks. But until then (and until you take the test), the most important thing to do is learn vocabulary. It's something that you can't cram (at least I've never been able to) and it will suck up your time.
At least 25% of your scored exam will test your knowledge of often obscure English vocabulary words and how they relate to each other. If you get an experimental verbal section, it will be at least 33% of the questions you have to answer under test conditions. Many of the sentence structure questions will require your knowledge of obscure English vocabulary words so you can correctly parse the sentence, pushing the numbers as high as 3/8 and 1/2 of your final score and test condition questions, depending on how the sentence completion questions are posed.
If you are studying for the GMAT, you are covered on the quant side as far as material; you'll just have to understand the different question types on the two exams. Same with the reading comprehension questions, although those are presented almost identically on the two tests.
So the biggest thing you'll have to do is study the vocab. Then study the vocab again.
Make it a goal between now and your test date to memorize the meanings of at least 10 new words every day. Grab the Kaplan flash cards for the 500 most-tested vocabulary words. If you don't regularly read a high-level news site/publication (NYT, WSJ, Economist -- preferably the Economist because they easily use more GRE words than the other two combined) you should try to start. And start looking up every word you can't immediately define and for which you can't recall a synonym & antonym.
Best of luck and I'll post more info/tips over the next couple of weeks as stuff winds down at work for me.
At least 25% of your scored exam will test your knowledge of often obscure English vocabulary words and how they relate to each other. If you get an experimental verbal section, it will be at least 33% of the questions you have to answer under test conditions. Many of the sentence structure questions will require your knowledge of obscure English vocabulary words so you can correctly parse the sentence, pushing the numbers as high as 3/8 and 1/2 of your final score and test condition questions, depending on how the sentence completion questions are posed.
If you are studying for the GMAT, you are covered on the quant side as far as material; you'll just have to understand the different question types on the two exams. Same with the reading comprehension questions, although those are presented almost identically on the two tests.
So the biggest thing you'll have to do is study the vocab. Then study the vocab again.
Make it a goal between now and your test date to memorize the meanings of at least 10 new words every day. Grab the Kaplan flash cards for the 500 most-tested vocabulary words. If you don't regularly read a high-level news site/publication (NYT, WSJ, Economist -- preferably the Economist because they easily use more GRE words than the other two combined) you should try to start. And start looking up every word you can't immediately define and for which you can't recall a synonym & antonym.
Best of luck and I'll post more info/tips over the next couple of weeks as stuff winds down at work for me.
10 May 2010, 10:52
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Thanks man, it's really helpful and useful. I've started doing vocabulary from High Frequency GRE Wordlist and learning about 10-15 words each day and then put them in a software Anki as Flashcards and also recording sentences made by me, so that I can review them frequently and then listen to my own sentences in my own voice 
which is really helpful to remember words. By the way I just hate cramming and I hate that we engineers have to cram all those obscure words (I think only the most important words used in daily life or in business or in formal writing, not those used in poetry or novel should've been tested).
I hate them and I am just going to beat them really hard hehe, so I am trying to learn them in my own ways and relating them to some funny things and also to some visual things, also making expressions of those words sometimes hehe (acting by using those words). What overall book do you suggest to start from? Kaplan or Barron's or Cracking GRE by Princeton??? Which one do you suggest and why? Please! reply as I need honest and authentic advice/suggestion.
Thanks! again and do pray for me.
Cheers,
Atif
which is really helpful to remember words. By the way I just hate cramming and I hate that we engineers have to cram all those obscure words (I think only the most important words used in daily life or in business or in formal writing, not those used in poetry or novel should've been tested). I hate them and I am just going to beat them really hard hehe, so I am trying to learn them in my own ways and relating them to some funny things and also to some visual things, also making expressions of those words sometimes hehe (acting by using those words). What overall book do you suggest to start from? Kaplan or Barron's or Cracking GRE by Princeton??? Which one do you suggest and why? Please! reply as I need honest and authentic advice/suggestion.
Thanks! again and do pray for me.
Cheers,
Atif
