hudsn Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I have several books to prep for the GRE, my weakness is verbal especially not knowing much vocab I started studying today with hopes of taking the exam in mid Jan. I started going thru some methods for ants, analogy's & sc but realized I am getting everything wrong since I have poor vocab. I decided to skip to a chapter on reading comp instead but how do I begin? I assume maybe should I spend bout a moth studying vocab before doing practice questions or do practice questions and have to look up each word. Is there a prefered word list? I have the following books: Kaplan GRE Vocab in a Box, Barrons Essential Words for GRE, PR Wordmart, ARCO Words for test takers NOVA's GRE, Barrons GRE 2009, PR Guide to GRE Overall what is the best way to start preparing for verbal with having a poor vocab and what books should I focus on or purchase? THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marwan2010 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 those are a good collection indeed, though if you can go over all of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickleefly Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 you should learn how to choose efficiently and this is your choice which lead you to success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanna1600 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 You stole my words - There are freaking too many books out there. It's such a mes, I don't even know where to start from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonky Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 i think a good start is Barron's frequent list and then Kaplan's high frequency list. you will get a general sense and then you can start memorizing Barron's 2 wordlists per day and finally do the tests from all the books... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsn Posted November 18, 2008 Author Share Posted November 18, 2008 you should learn how to choose efficiently and this is your choice which lead you to success. thats probably one of the funniest things ive heard, come on. i am asking for advice not generalizations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemma9 Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Yes, I think you have too many books, esp the vocab books. Drop a few of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonky Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Also, check out the newest post in the just finished my GRE v-630 q-800, he/she said that the vocab was completely from Barron's and Nova Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudsn Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 yea but which to drop. i'm getting buried in 'em. aagh ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambridgedove Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Use Barron! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eflect Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Hi Hudson, Barrons book along with GRE Vocabulary Home is a good enough combination to get you through the examination.Though I havent used Big book,I was told it is a good book as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirimidin Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 I have several books to prep for the GRE, my weakness is verbal especially not knowing much vocab I started studying today with hopes of taking the exam in mid Jan. I started going thru some methods for ants, analogy's & sc but realized I am getting everything wrong since I have poor vocab. I decided to skip to a chapter on reading comp instead but how do I begin? I assume maybe should I spend bout a moth studying vocab before doing practice questions or do practice questions and have to look up each word. Is there a prefered word list? I have the following books: Kaplan GRE Vocab in a Box, Barrons Essential Words for GRE, PR Wordmart, ARCO Words for test takers NOVA's GRE, Barrons GRE 2009, PR Guide to GRE Overall what is the best way to start preparing for verbal with having a poor vocab and what books should I focus on or purchase? THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!! I think you could refer the advice from othe people in this site, it's really helpful. They have evaluated all the above-mentioned books Dear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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