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hdrajesh · 2003 June 8th, 04:02 PM

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neeraj.d · 2003 June 26th, 05:55 PM

Hi amigo Ro,

thanks for all advice !!!!

regards ,

Neeraj.

vgjain · 2003 July 7th, 04:27 PM

Hi AmigoRo,
How did you mark the words that you didn't know in Guru's Wordlist. I also tried to use it but found no way to mark the difficult words and sort them later.
Please reply soon..

Quote:

Originally posted by AmigoRo

Here's how I prepared for GRE verbal.

Vocabulary

http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/

Get the New GRE wordlist 0.3 beta

It's the best piece of wordlist software in the world. This is the only tool I used to improve my vocab.

This is what I did. First, I did all 51 (100 words each) word sets. Actually there about 4000 words because there are repetitions. Whenever I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't guess it. I looked it up the dictionary. This way, the program records what words you have missed. Don't depend on the definitions the program gives you. Couple of them are wrong.

After the first round, I managed to eliminate about 60% of the words. That left me with 1600 words. Then I started from beginning and eliminated words I remembered. In five weeks, I had memorised 4000 words, with minimal effort !

Reading Comprehension

I went to this site:

www.aldaily.com

and read essays there. They are very deep in meaning, but very well written. This improved my reading comprehension skills by leaps and bounds.

A bonus is that he essays you find on this site will help you with the AWA issue topic too.

reading comprehension Tips for the exam

1. Identify the core theme of the passage. This is of utmost importance.
2. Identify the purpose of the passage (instructing, describing etc).
3. Identify the tone of the authors writing (neutral, critical, supportive).
4. Map the course of the essay. For example, The author will start off by presenting an argument. Then he will either present evidence to support it, or refute it. Look for words like "however" which mark a twist.
5. Don't get bogged down in the minute details in the first reading. You can generally ignore most statistics. Come back to them only if you get a question asking for that specific piece of information.

Look at the following excerpt(from www.aldaily.com):

Quote:

In the book of Genesis, God decreed that there were limits to growth by never allowing the Tower of Babel to reach the sky. In modern times, the task of delineating human aspirations fell to the Club of Rome, which in its 1972 study, Limits to Growth, declared that in a world of finite resources, unlimited economic expansion and prosperity are impossible to pursue.

The international scientists, who at the invitation of Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei came together in the late 1960s to form the Club of Rome, meant well. They were united by their conviction that enormous ecological problems faced humankind and called for extraordinary political measures. At the time of its release, Limits to Growth had a profound impact, spawning alarmist headlines such as “A Computer Looks Ahead and Shudders” and “Scientists Warn of Global Catastrophe.” The subsequent 1973 oil crisis, prompted in part by the Arab embargo, made the study seem eerily prescient.

But 30 years later, the Club of Rome’s most dire forecasts have failed to come true. Vital minerals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc, mercury, lead, tungsten, and oil should have been exhausted by now. But they aren’t. Due to an exponential increase in population growth, the world should be facing desperate shortages of arable land and rising food prices. Yet food prices have never been lower. And the world’s health should have been undermined by an exponential increase in pollution. People today, however, live longer than ever before, and in Western cities, most pollutants are on the decline, driven down by technological advances and environmental legislation.

What's the theme of the essay?
What's the pupose?
What's the author's tone of voice?
What's the course of the essay?

Well, I hope you find this information helpful. If you have any specific questions, please do ask. I will do my level best to answer.

HTH

AmigoRo

Title edited from:

How I prepared for GRE verbal

to

How I got 800 on the GRE Verbal Section

and topic moved by Erin.

littlebird · 2003 July 8th, 07:52 AM

hi,i am new to this forum and i read about this gurus list,
but i can not open :http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/
can you email it to me? thanks
jia_q77@hotmail.com

tyro_writer · 2003 July 23rd, 04:48 PM

Hello AmigoRo,

Congrats!!!
Well I tried opening the link. I could not find any GRE word list 0.3 beta. They are saying it is available, but no link is provided to download it. I got GRE Word List 0.2 beta (that has only 2526 words). Where did u get 0.3 beta. They are saying only Indians can order the CD.
Can u please send me the link again where I can get 0.3 beta?

Thanks,
-Tyro

Quote:

Originally posted by AmigoRo

Here's how I prepared for GRE verbal.

Vocabulary

http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/

Get the New GRE wordlist 0.3 beta

It's the best piece of wordlist software in the world. This is the only tool I used to improve my vocab.

This is what I did. First, I did all 51 (100 words each) word sets. Actually there about 4000 words because there are repetitions. Whenever I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't guess it. I looked it up the dictionary. This way, the program records what words you have missed. Don't depend on the definitions the program gives you. Couple of them are wrong.

After the first round, I managed to eliminate about 60% of the words. That left me with 1600 words. Then I started from beginning and eliminated words I remembered. In five weeks, I had memorised 4000 words, with minimal effort !

Reading Comprehension

I went to this site:

www.aldaily.com

and read essays there. They are very deep in meaning, but very well written. This improved my reading comprehension skills by leaps and bounds.

A bonus is that he essays you find on this site will help you with the AWA issue topic too.

reading comprehension Tips for the exam

1. Identify the core theme of the passage. This is of utmost importance.
2. Identify the purpose of the passage (instructing, describing etc).
3. Identify the tone of the authors writing (neutral, critical, supportive).
4. Map the course of the essay. For example, The author will start off by presenting an argument. Then he will either present evidence to support it, or refute it. Look for words like "however" which mark a twist.
5. Don't get bogged down in the minute details in the first reading. You can generally ignore most statistics. Come back to them only if you get a question asking for that specific piece of information.

Look at the following excerpt(from www.aldaily.com):

Quote:

In the book of Genesis, God decreed that there were limits to growth by never allowing the Tower of Babel to reach the sky. In modern times, the task of delineating human aspirations fell to the Club of Rome, which in its 1972 study, Limits to Growth, declared that in a world of finite resources, unlimited economic expansion and prosperity are impossible to pursue.

The international scientists, who at the invitation of Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei came together in the late 1960s to form the Club of Rome, meant well. They were united by their conviction that enormous ecological problems faced humankind and called for extraordinary political measures. At the time of its release, Limits to Growth had a profound impact, spawning alarmist headlines such as “A Computer Looks Ahead and Shudders” and “Scientists Warn of Global Catastrophe.” The subsequent 1973 oil crisis, prompted in part by the Arab embargo, made the study seem eerily prescient.

But 30 years later, the Club of Rome’s most dire forecasts have failed to come true. Vital minerals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc, mercury, lead, tungsten, and oil should have been exhausted by now. But they aren’t. Due to an exponential increase in population growth, the world should be facing desperate shortages of arable land and rising food prices. Yet food prices have never been lower. And the world’s health should have been undermined by an exponential increase in pollution. People today, however, live longer than ever before, and in Western cities, most pollutants are on the decline, driven down by technological advances and environmental legislation.

What's the theme of the essay?
What's the pupose?
What's the author's tone of voice?
What's the course of the essay?

Well, I hope you find this information helpful. If you have any specific questions, please do ask. I will do my level best to answer.

HTH

AmigoRo

Title edited from:

How I prepared for GRE verbal

to

How I got 800 on the GRE Verbal Section

and topic moved by Erin.

pismoboy24 · 2003 September 4th, 06:21 PM

I went to Guru's site and downloaded from the link: http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/ ,but when I run the program it says "guru's GRE Wordlist 0.21b". Now this seems to be 0.21 beta instead of the newer 0.3 beta which ya'll have been talking about. Could someone please clarify.
-Chris

sdanquah · 2003 September 8th, 01:14 AM

Congrats boy.
you have finally shown us that with hard work we can break the myth surrounding the GRE Verbal. Thanks so much for your advice and help. I am still haveing problem downloading the GRE.3beta.
I am now using vocab. builder which i find very helpful as well.
Thanks once again

brian_dell · 2003 September 19th, 01:48 PM

what about the actual words that appeared in the test ? were they in the list of words from barrons

Quote:

Originally posted by AmigoRo

Here's how I prepared for GRE verbal.

Vocabulary

http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/

Get the New GRE wordlist 0.3 beta

It's the best piece of wordlist software in the world. This is the only tool I used to improve my vocab.

This is what I did. First, I did all 51 (100 words each) word sets. Actually there about 4000 words because there are repetitions. Whenever I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't guess it. I looked it up the dictionary. This way, the program records what words you have missed. Don't depend on the definitions the program gives you. Couple of them are wrong.

After the first round, I managed to eliminate about 60% of the words. That left me with 1600 words. Then I started from beginning and eliminated words I remembered. In five weeks, I had memorised 4000 words, with minimal effort !

Reading Comprehension

I went to this site:

www.aldaily.com

and read essays there. They are very deep in meaning, but very well written. This improved my reading comprehension skills by leaps and bounds.

A bonus is that he essays you find on this site will help you with the AWA issue topic too.

reading comprehension Tips for the exam

1. Identify the core theme of the passage. This is of utmost importance.
2. Identify the purpose of the passage (instructing, describing etc).
3. Identify the tone of the authors writing (neutral, critical, supportive).
4. Map the course of the essay. For example, The author will start off by presenting an argument. Then he will either present evidence to support it, or refute it. Look for words like "however" which mark a twist.
5. Don't get bogged down in the minute details in the first reading. You can generally ignore most statistics. Come back to them only if you get a question asking for that specific piece of information.

Look at the following excerpt(from www.aldaily.com):

Quote:

In the book of Genesis, God decreed that there were limits to growth by never allowing the Tower of Babel to reach the sky. In modern times, the task of delineating human aspirations fell to the Club of Rome, which in its 1972 study, Limits to Growth, declared that in a world of finite resources, unlimited economic expansion and prosperity are impossible to pursue.

The international scientists, who at the invitation of Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei came together in the late 1960s to form the Club of Rome, meant well. They were united by their conviction that enormous ecological problems faced humankind and called for extraordinary political measures. At the time of its release, Limits to Growth had a profound impact, spawning alarmist headlines such as “A Computer Looks Ahead and Shudders” and “Scientists Warn of Global Catastrophe.” The subsequent 1973 oil crisis, prompted in part by the Arab embargo, made the study seem eerily prescient.

But 30 years later, the Club of Rome’s most dire forecasts have failed to come true. Vital minerals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc, mercury, lead, tungsten, and oil should have been exhausted by now. But they aren’t. Due to an exponential increase in population growth, the world should be facing desperate shortages of arable land and rising food prices. Yet food prices have never been lower. And the world’s health should have been undermined by an exponential increase in pollution. People today, however, live longer than ever before, and in Western cities, most pollutants are on the decline, driven down by technological advances and environmental legislation.

What's the theme of the essay?
What's the pupose?
What's the author's tone of voice?
What's the course of the essay?

Well, I hope you find this information helpful. If you have any specific questions, please do ask. I will do my level best to answer.

HTH

AmigoRo

Title edited from:

How I prepared for GRE verbal

to

How I got 800 on the GRE Verbal Section

and topic moved by Erin.

anupama · 2003 October 8th, 10:08 PM

i went to http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/ this link I cant able to open this from here. I tried this from http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.ht...search=+Go%21+ this link. At last I got wordlist.But it has only 2500 words. Is the site amigro mentioned.

nullywave · 2003 November 25th, 11:45 PM

i couldnt use the link to http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/. everybody seems not to be able to get anything out of it. I am downloading the one anupama suggested. i'll tell you later what I got.

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pismoboy24 I JUST got here. Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 8	I went to Guru's site and downloaded from the link: http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/ ,but when I run the program it says "guru's GRE Wordlist 0.21b". Now this seems to be 0.21 beta instead of the newer 0.3 beta which ya'll have been talking about. Could someone please clarify. -Chris

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sdanquah Within my grasp! Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 182	Congrats boy. you have finally shown us that with hard work we can break the myth surrounding the GRE Verbal. Thanks so much for your advice and help. I am still haveing problem downloading the GRE.3beta. I am now using vocab. builder which i find very helpful as well. Thanks once again

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anupama I JUST got here. Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: India Posts: 2	i went to http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/ this link I cant able to open this from here. I tried this from http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.ht...search=+Go%21+ this link. At last I got wordlist.But it has only 2500 words. Is the site amigro mentioned.

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nullywave I JUST got here. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Italy Posts: 16	i couldnt use the link to http://www-ec.njit.edu/~grk4352/. everybody seems not to be able to get anything out of it. I am downloading the one anupama suggested. i'll tell you later what I got.

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