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malhotra · 07-13-2005, 08:34 AM

i am planning to give the gre sometime in august (most probably the last week) and this is the prep i am doing these days, i just want to know if i should put in more effort or will this suffice,

1. princeton review gre book, i have done almost all their drills/exercises, the hot vocab list and found it to be pretty easy.

2. barron's - right from the time i gave my SAT, this book has been along with me, i find it to be the toughest and most comprehensive out of all the test prep books. most of their high frequency words are the same as that of the SAT book, so it'll probably take me like a week more to do all of them. the full wordlist seems to be a freaking dictionary and i feel intimidated to say the least of that thing. am not even touching it, glanced over a few lists though and found that i knew quite a lots of words but then again just 1 month to go, i dont want to confuse myself , so just let it be.

3. the gre wordlist recommended by erin on his website - i know like 70% of the words given their already but then aain will finish it off in another 10 days or so.

thats pretty much all my verbal prep, got a kaplan and princeton gre softwares from palika but dont use them all that much.

now about the scores, in barron's tests i usually get around 22-24 questions right for the entire tests, around 12/20 for analogies and antonyms exercises and nothing below 18/20 for the rc, can anyone tell me what my scaled score is roughly going to be around??

also, although i am pretty good at RCs but i dont really have the habit of reading stuff off the computer screen, for some reason after like 2 paras i lose interest and thus get screwed in RCs, any recommendations there??

and finally, i still haven't registered for the gre, so do u think, considering the above and the fact that i am gonna study for like 4-5 hrs everyday till the gre, i will be able to get a 650+ Verbal?? i mean shoulkd i go forward and register for the test??

any reply would be greatly appreciated

-amit

P.S. if u are wondering where the title of this thread came from, it's a track of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

P.P.S just read my post again and looks like a friggin' treatise, sorry for that

07-13-2005, 08:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
malhotra Eager! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Delhi Posts: 32	I hope to get by (with a little help from my friends)!! i am planning to give the gre sometime in august (most probably the last week) and this is the prep i am doing these days, i just want to know if i should put in more effort or will this suffice, 1. princeton review gre book, i have done almost all their drills/exercises, the hot vocab list and found it to be pretty easy. 2. barron's - right from the time i gave my SAT, this book has been along with me, i find it to be the toughest and most comprehensive out of all the test prep books. most of their high frequency words are the same as that of the SAT book, so it'll probably take me like a week more to do all of them. the full wordlist seems to be a freaking dictionary and i feel intimidated to say the least of that thing. am not even touching it, glanced over a few lists though and found that i knew quite a lots of words but then again just 1 month to go, i dont want to confuse myself , so just let it be. 3. the gre wordlist recommended by erin on his website - i know like 70% of the words given their already but then aain will finish it off in another 10 days or so. thats pretty much all my verbal prep, got a kaplan and princeton gre softwares from palika but dont use them all that much. now about the scores, in barron's tests i usually get around 22-24 questions right for the entire tests, around 12/20 for analogies and antonyms exercises and nothing below 18/20 for the rc, can anyone tell me what my scaled score is roughly going to be around?? also, although i am pretty good at RCs but i dont really have the habit of reading stuff off the computer screen, for some reason after like 2 paras i lose interest and thus get screwed in RCs, any recommendations there?? and finally, i still haven't registered for the gre, so do u think, considering the above and the fact that i am gonna study for like 4-5 hrs everyday till the gre, i will be able to get a 650+ Verbal?? i mean shoulkd i go forward and register for the test?? any reply would be greatly appreciated -amit P.S. if u are wondering where the title of this thread came from, it's a track of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band P.P.S just read my post again and looks like a friggin' treatise, sorry for that

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