GRE Study Plan for 1 Month

Quite recently in your letters you started to ask me about Study Plan for 1 Month. I must say that month is quite little time for preparations to GRE, but all depends from you and from your abilities.

During my preparations (I had 3 month) I was studying only Math, cause my GRE requirements were 780/800 for Quant and 400/800 for Verbal. And my GRE score (29/10/09) is Q800 and V400.

My main goal during my preparations was to increase the speed of solving the problems. And for that purpose I needed lots of practice... Almost all bad scores are concerned with lack of time. Time is the greatest enemy on GRE Quant section. Actually very little problems appear on GRE that you can't solve, but lots of them are suchlike you can't do them intime.

What to suggest...

1) For Quant section - study this 3 books:

• NOVA GRE Preparation Course
• NОVА GRE Mаth Bіble
• GRE Barron's 2008 17th ed.

And then if you feel weak in some areas you may practise them from Quantitative Aptitude, R.S. Agarwal or from other Quant books (there are enough of them in Quant Section of the blog).

2) For Verbal section - learn words, aproximately 50-70 a day. I started to study them two weeks before my GRE when I took first PowerPrep test (it was Q800 and V280 - I didn't think that my verbal was so horrible). The best way to memorise new words is to read, but you have not much time so second best way (I used it) it is Flash Cards.
Start learning them in next order:

• 200 Kaplan Verbal Flashcards
• 333 Barrons GRE High-Freq. Words
• 400 Kaplan's Favorite GRE Words
• Barron's GRE 50 Word Lists

Then if there will be some time left try to read Kaplan GRE Exam Verbal Workbook and also GRE Barron's 2008 17th ed. (it's as for me really good study material). If you still need some verbal practice there are lots of books in verbal section of the blog.

3) Week before the test try all the GRE CATs. I can suggest them in next order:

• 1 Free Kaplan's GRE Practice Test
• 1 Free Princeton's GRE Practice Test
• 1 Free Peterson's GRE Practice Test
• GRE Red and Blue Bible
• Kaplan's GRE soft CD (2004)
• Barron's GRE CD (2003)
• Nova Press GRE Software
• Princeton Review GRE Test System
• Gre Bible v.2.1
• Cambridge GRE TestPrep

I think that would be enough for good GRE score.. But I must say it one more time - all depends from you and your own abilities. It is quite hard to raise your score significantly in such short period. The more you practise the higher score you gain.

Good Luck with your GRE,
Bane