6 Month GRE Study Schedule

If you are striving for a top-notch verbal score, daily review of vocab is vital. 30 days is not a lot of time; however, you can certainly memorize a few hundred (maybe more) words in that timeframe.

Make use of Magoosh’s GRE Flashcards, but don’t limit yourself to just these words. Whenever you encounter a word you don’t know, look it up, make a flashcard, and add it to your own flashcard deck. You can go the old-fashioned route with hand-written, paper cards or opt for a digital version like Quizlet.

As you work through your flashcards you’ll want to organize them into three piles/categories. One category is for words that are “new” to you and you’re just trying to absorb their definitions/usage. Another category is for words that you’ve almost mastered–maybe you still need context clues to grasp their meanings. The final category represents a “done” stack that is only rarely reviewed.

We cannot stress the importance of reading to build your reading comprehension skills, refine your understanding of grammar and usage, and expand your vocabulary. You have to challenge yourself to read material that is written at the same level as the passages you’ll encounter on test day. Check out the links below for reliable sources and advice:

Non-fiction, scholarly books, history and social science topics are preferable.

How to Practice with Recommended Sources: Scientific American, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Economist, Arts and Letters Daily, or The New York Times (a Sunday subscription is a great idea!).

A notebook or digital document to keep a written record of the questions that you miss. For each question you enter into your log do the following:

• Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question
• Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations
• Watch any recommended lesson videos (don’t worry about watching them out of order. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.)
• Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.
• When you come across vocabulary that you don’t know or only sorta know in a question, be sure to add it to your flashcards. We use words that are trending on the GRE to create our content.

Not sure how to set up your error log? Here’s a free template.

Note: ETS launched the shorter version of the GRE in 2023. So, what does that mean if you have older prep materials? Good news!! You do not need to go out and buy new ones. Because there were no changes to the content that ETS tests, there have been no real changes to the prep books that cover that content. In fact, at the time of this writing, ETS hasn’t even released a new edition of its own prep material, The Official Guide, but does provide the following note:

“The practice tests in this book are for the General Test that was administered before September 22, 2023. However, because the shorter GRE includes the same question types (except for the Analyze an Argument essay task which has been removed), this book is a great way to prepare for the shorter GRE.”

Thus, if you have older versions of prep materials, you should be all set to dive in. Just be sure to skip any content related to the Analyze an Argument part of the AWA, and be sure to review the GRE’s updated timing and structure.

Without your own Magoosh account, you won’t be able to access many of the lessons, practice questions, and practice tests that are linked in the daily tasks; however, there are a number of lessons and practice materials that are publically available, and, of course, you can also follow the daily breakdown of topics and activities using The Official Guide or any other material(s) you are using for your GRE prep.

Go to ETS.org/gre, and learn about the content of the GRE. Click on and read all the information under each sub-heading link.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Note: Many lessons are only available to those with a Magoosh Premium GRE subscription—sign up here for a free trial!

Intro – General Introduction

Intro – What’s on the GRE?

Intro – Computer Adaptive Testing

Scoring Range

Intro – Skipping Questions and Pacing

Intro – Stress Management

Math Section Breakdown

Verbal Section Breakdown

Take Magoosh’s Free GRE Practice Test. When you are done, note your score, then check your answers. Don’t worry about reviewing your work just yet. Save that for tomorrow.

FAQ: Why are we diving in with a practice test?

Here’s the reasoning: How you interact with the GRE is unique to you. It’s incredibly important to know, sooner rather than later, where your strengths and weaknesses lie. Empowered with that knowledge from the outset, you’ll know how to prioritize your study. With your first practice test under your belt, you’ll start to get a sense for how you feel taking the GRE, have context for overarching strategies and techniques, and have those all important baseline scores squared away. These will be the scores (Math, Verbal, AWA) that you’ll build from as you push towards your goal: The scores you need to feel confident when applying to your chosen graduate programs.

If you haven’t done so already, build your error log and add questions from the diagnostic you took yesterday. You’ll be using your error log throughout this study plan. Today, you are going to do your first in-depth review. For each question you entered into your log do the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read the related text explanations and watch the related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos (don’t worry about watching them out of order. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.)

Add any words from the questions that you only sorta know or don’t know to your vocabulary flashcards.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Note: You might find some of the content in Magoosh videos super easy or incredibly challenging. Some folks will find the verbal information obvious and the math hard-going; other folks will have the reverse experience. If the material is relatively easy for you, feel free to click to the end and simply read the summary. If the material is new to you, take notes on what you are learning, and if possible, watch that video a second time.

There are A LOT of lesson videos in the Magoosh library, and this 6-Month schedule includes all of them. But! That doesn’t mean you have to include all of them in your study. Use your knowledge of your strengths, weaknesses, and priorities to choose which lessons (if any) to forego.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to GRE Math

Mental Math: GRE Estimation

Mental Math: Dividing by Five

Mental Math: Doubling and Halving

Mental Math: Squaring Shortcuts

Number Sense

The Use and Abuse of Formulas

Learn From Your Mistakes

Practice

If you have a Magoosh Premium or Trial subscription, navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → and launch Math Quick Practice at the top of the screen (you’ll see a lightning bolt icon). Work through those 10 mixed practice problems. For now, do not fret about how long you’re spending on the questions. Let’s focus on accuracy first. We’ll bring speed into the equation later on.

NOTE II: In the above Quick Practice, you’ll be encountering all topics from the get-go, whether you’ve already studied them or not. This means that you will make mistakes at the beginning. That’s fine! That’s a good thing even. Mistakes tell you what you still have left to learn. This schedule will provide you with opportunities for both targeted and mixed practice. The former will give you some control over difficulty, the latter is really meant to prepare you for what you’ll encounter on the GRE. You are only truly GRE-ready when you can solve problems as they arise in mixed-topic practice: Cold and with no particular preparation on that topic. That’s what the test will demand, so it’s important to prepare to be constantly on your toes.

Additional Practice

*You should devote at least 15-30 minutes each day to flashcard review.

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Take 15 minutes to review the cards in the first deck, Algebra. If you are 100% confident that you know the concepts therein, awesome! If not, be sure to devote time to memorizing any that you don’t have down pat. Feel free to explore other decks ahead of where they appear in this schedule. You might find it helpful to be exposed to concepts before diving into lessons that will explore them more fully.

Days 5-6 for most of the weeks in this schedule will be of the choose-your-own-adventure variety. There is a lot of content to get through in days 1-4, so you can use days 5-6 to catch up. If you don’t need to use them to complete the rest of the week’s activities, you can use them for other supplemental study.

Here are some ideas:

1.) If you have a paper or digital copy of ETS’s Official Guide for the GRE (and you really should), you can use it to supplement your practice. For example, if you are feeling challenged by basic math concepts, check out the OG’s Math Review and work through the topics and associated exercises. There are also plenty of practice questions for both math and verbal, organized by difficulty, that you can dive into.

2.) Another resource to check out if you discover that you’re struggling with fundamental math concepts are the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read a few articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

If you haven’t chosen something to read yet, check out Arts and Letters Daily. This is a great resource for links to GRE-level reading material.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Quantitative Comparison

QC Strategies: Estimation

QC Strategies: Matching Operations

Practice

If you have a Magoosh Premium or Trial subscription, navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Quantitative Comparison. Do 10 QC questions. For now, do not fret about how long you’re spending on the questions. Let’s focus on accuracy first. We’ll bring speed into the equation later on.

Which difficulty should I choose?

Ideally, you should select Adaptive difficulty. That setting will most accurately reflect the variety of questions that you’ll encounter on test day. However, you should feel free to select the setting that best fits your current ability level. If you are struggling with some of the basic concepts, you might opt for easy/medium until your accuracy improves. However, by, or before, the ½ way point, you should switch to adaptive difficulty.

If you feel very comfortable with a specific topic or are a more advanced student who wants to focus on higher-level concepts, you might select Hard/Very Hard.

Please note, if you frequently only work on questions from one category of difficulty, you could exhaust that particular group, which means that you might start seeing repeat questions during custom practice or during a practice test.

Review

For each question from QC practice that you missed, enter it into your log and do the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos (don’t worry about watching them out of order. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.)

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons. If you guessed or just weren’t all that sure how you arrived at the correct answer, devote time to reviewing the explanations and absorbing the underlying concepts and solution steps.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the first deck, Algebra.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Plugging In Overview

Plugging In for Integer Properties

Plugging In for Percents

Plugging In for Word Problems

Backsolving

Picking Numbers

Practice

If you have a Magoosh Premium or Trial subscription, navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Multiple Choice → Select All. Do 10 questions. As you work through this set, try to identify any clues that indicate you can plug in as a solution option.

Reminder: for the first ½ of this study plan do not worry about timing. Of course, if you have a high rate of accuracy, then shift to a focus on pacing sooner versus later. You have an average of about 1 minute and 45 seconds per math question.

If you’re opting to ignore the amount of time you’re spending on each question for now, that’s fine! Keep that up. We’ll let you know when pacing must become a focus in your practice.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos (don’t worry about watching them out of order. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.)

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons. If you guessed or just weren’t all that sure how you arrived at the correct answer, devote time to reviewing the explanations and absorbing the underlying concepts and solution steps.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the first deck, Algebra.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Vocabulary

Flashcards

Word Roots

Mnemonics

Reading in Context

Active Usage

The Thesaurus

Vocabulary in Questions

Obscure Vocabulary

Improving Verbal Score

If you haven’t yet, in the Magoosh blog, read: GRE Reading Comprehension Practice

Download the Magoosh GRE Vocabulary Word List PDF

Read carefully the section “Making Words Stick,” about learning vocabulary, and the section “Vocabulary in Context: Articles from Magazines and Newspapers.” Skim the rest of the book to get a sense of the layout and style. As you build vocab through this plan, periodically go back to this book to verify your understanding and to make connections to other words. The more ways you have to remember a word, the more likely you are to remember it!

Practice

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on studying at least 10 words from the first deck, Common Words I. Of course, if you already know most of the 51 words in this deck, feel free to check out the other decks in any of the categories: Common, Basic, and Advanced. If you already have a vocabulary that would rival those of most literature professors, then you will most likely need to rely on your personal reading and curated lists of the most esoteric GRE words (a quick Internet search will produce quite a few list options) to push your vocabulary to new heights.

We’ll remind you to try to memorize 10-20 words each day; however, where those words come from will be driven by you and finding the words you don’t know in the flashcard decks and adding words you don’t know from your reading.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Reading Comprehension

Intro to Text Completions

Intro to Sentence Equivalences

Additional Practice

If you have a Magoosh Premium or Trial subscription, navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → and launch Verbal Quick Practice at the top of the screen (you’ll see a lightning bolt icon). Work through those 10 mixed practice problems.

Review

As you review the results of the mixed verbal practice set, add each incorrect question to your log and do the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos (don’t worry about watching them out of order. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.)

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Add any words from the questions that you only sorta know or don’t know to your vocabulary flashcards.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons. If you guessed or just weren’t all that sure how you arrived at the correct answer, devote time to reviewing the explanation steps.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the first deck, Algebra.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

How you might spend this time:

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

Again, if you haven’t chosen something to read yet, check out Arts and Letters Daily.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Properties of Real Numbers

Positive and Negative Numbers I

Mental Math, Addition, and Subtraction

Positive and Negative Numbers II

Order of Operations

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Arithmetic and Fractions. Do 10 questions.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Continue to review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Into to Decimals

Rounding

Multiples of 10

Intro to Fractions

Conversions: Fractions and Decimals

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Arithmetic and Fractions. Do 10 questions.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Fraction Properties I

Comparing Fractions I

Comparing Fractions II (Adv.)

Operations with Fractions

Fraction Properties II

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → All Math → check clear all and then only check the box for Arithmetic and Fractions. Do 10 questions.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

The Short Passage

Active Reading

How to Answer a GRE Question

Answer Traps

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Reading Comprehension → check clear all and then only check the box for Short Passages. Do 10 questions. Don’t worry if you don’t end up doing exactly 10 questions. You might do a few more or less depending on the number of questions associated with the passages you are given.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Add any words from the questions that you only sorta know or don’t know to your vocabulary flashcards.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

How you might spend this time:

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions

Operations with Proportions

Word Problems with Fractions

Quiz: Arithmetic and Fractions

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → All Math → check clear all and then only check the box for Arithmetic and Fractions. Do 5 questions.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

AWA Overview

Writing Tips for the 4 Major Scoring Components

Issue Essay Task Overview

Issue Essay Brainstorming

Issue Essay Format

How to Practice

Score your AWA Essay–use this link to analyze the Issue Essay you wrote during the last practice test. It will help you better understand the process and the score your essay was given by the Magoosh AI Tutor.

NOTE I: Score your AWA Essay above leads you to the scoring rubric that will be used by the official readers when they evaluate your essay. Even though the essays you write in your Magoosh Dashboard will be scored and given detailed feedback on how to improve by The Magoosh AI Tutor, it’s still important for you to read through and be familiar with the scoring rubric.

NOTE II: There could still be out-dated content pertaining to the Argument Essay in the above lessons. You can skip/ignore any references to the now retired Argument Task.

Practice

Verbal Drill: Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Add any words from the questions that you only sorta know or don’t know to your vocabulary flashcards.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Percents

Working with Percents

Number Sense and Percents

Percent Increases and Decreases

Sequential Percent Changes

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Percents and Ratios. Do 10 questions.

Review

For each question from the above practice that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Simple and Compound Interest

Intro to Ratios

Combining Ratios

Ratios and Rates

Quiz: Percents and Ratios

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Percents and Ratios. Do 5 questions.

Review

For each question from the above practice and quiz that you missed, log the following:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the second deck, Fractions, Ratios, and Percents. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous deck.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Primary Purpose

Inference Questions

Detail Questions

Vocabulary-In-Context

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Reading Comprehension → Check Long, Medium and Short Passages. Do 12 questions (or around 12, depending on the passages and their associated questions).

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the third deck, Geometry. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Divisibility

Divisibility Rules

Multiples

Prime Numbers

Prime Factorization

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Integer Properties. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the third deck, Geometry. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Counting Factors of Large Numbers

Squares of Integers

Greatest Common Factor

Least Common Multiple

Even and Odd Integers

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Integer Properties. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the third deck, Geometry. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Select the Sentence

Multiple Answer Questions

Multiple Answer Questions – Inference

Structure Questions

Advanced Question Types

Quiz: Reading Comprehension

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Reading Comprehension → Check Long, Medium and Short Passages. Do 10 questions (or around 10, depending on the passages and their associated questions).

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the third deck, Geometry. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, take a full-length practice test!

Be sure that you have around 2 hours of uninterrupted focus time. You want your practice test experience to be as realistic as possible. Remember that there are no breaks given during the GRE.

In your Magoosh dashboard, navigate to Practice → Practice Test.

Again, don’t worry about reviewing the test immediately after you finish. That will kick off the next session.

As you review your test, try to recall which question types you struggled with the most. Can you find any patterns? Are you making careless mistakes? If so, reflect on the reason: Working too fast? Misreading the question? Figure out where you should slow down when testing.

Open your error log for a deep-dive review of your practice test

As always:

Try to determine and make note of why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos (don’t worry about watching them out of order. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.)

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Add any words from the questions that you only sorta know or don’t know to your vocabulary flashcards.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons. If you guessed or just weren’t all that sure how you arrived at the correct answer, devote time to reviewing the explanations and absorbing the underlying concepts and solution steps.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the third deck, Geometry. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

GCD LCM Formula

Even and Odd Integers

Testing Cases

Remainders

Integer Properties Strategies

Quiz: Integer Properties

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Integer Properties. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the third deck, Geometry. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Elimination Method

Understanding the Sentence

Difficult Words

Simplifying Complex Sentences

Testing the Answer Choices

Quiz: Text Completions – Overview

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Text Completion→ Select All. Do 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the third deck, Geometry. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Algebra

Simplifying Expressions

Multiplying Expressions

FOIL Method

Factoring GCF

Factoring: Difference of two Squares

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Algebra. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Factoring: Quadratics

Factoring: Combined

Advanced Numerical Factoring

Factoring: Rational Expressions

Basic Equation Solving

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Algebra. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Eliminating Fractions

Quadratic Equations

Two Equations, Two Unknowns I

Two Equations, Two Unknowns II

System – Number of Solutions

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Algebra. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Verbal and Quant

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Elements of the Argument

Weakening the Argument

Strengthening the Argument

Assumption Questions

Wrong Answer Choices

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal→ Reading Comprehension → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Paragraph Arguments. Do 8 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to No Shift Sentences

Cause and Effect

Elaboration Sentences

Apposition

Quiz: Text Completion – No Shifts

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Text Completion→ Select All. Do 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Three Equations, Three Unknowns

Absolute Value Equations

Function Notation

Strange Operators

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Algebra. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Inequalities – I

Inequalities – II

Absolute Value Inequalities

Simplifying with Substitutions

Quiz: Algebra, Equations, and Inequalities

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All and then only check Algebra. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fourth deck, Number Properties I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

Pacing Note: This week you are near the ½ way point of the schedule. If you haven’t started to do so already, you should start focusing on the pacing piece of the GRE puzzle. An effective pacing and skipping strategy is a major component of success.

Thus far, we’ve suggested doing the practice sessions in accordance with your comfort level with the material. Starting this week, we suggest that you transition from accuracy to speed. This might be a bit frustrating at first. Increasing your speed while maintaining your accuracy will not come overnight. It is a process. So, take your time with it. Imagine that you’re training to be a world class swimmer: technique (or accuracy in this case) will eventually equate to speed. Regardless of how quickly you are answering questions, you should maintain the technique (the accuracy) that you developed before you began working on maximizing your pace.

If this feels like a lot to you, work in stages. Set achievable goals as you attempt to improve your pacing! Try to answer questions at a pace of three minutes per question. The next day, set a faster pace, like two and half minutes per question.

Do this day by day until you are answering questions at the target times:

Math ≈ 1:45 per question

Verbal ≈ 1:30 per question

Of course, those target times vary–the greater the question complexity, the longer it will take to solve it.

Difficulty: At this point, we also suggest that you switch to Adaptive Difficulty, if you haven’t already. Of course, that’s ultimately up to you, where you’re at in your studies, and how you’ve chosen to modify this schedule. However, it is a good idea for your practice to mimic, as much as possible, what you’ll encounter on test day.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Sentence Equivalence

Synonymous Sentences – I

Synonymous Sentences – II

Beware of the pseudo-synonyms

Avoiding Pseudo-synonyms: Practice Activities

“Perfect answer”- but no matching pair 3:02

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Sentence Equivalence → Select all categories. Do 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Feeling like you’d benefit from mixing up the way you approach vocabulary? If you haven’t already, check out the Vocabulary Games lesson.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

More than One Pair of Synonyms in the Answer Choices

SE Questions With Only Two Synonyms

Opposite-of-Correct Synonym Pairs

Read Carefully 1

Read Carefully 2

Difficult Words in Sentence Equivalence

Quiz: Sentence Equivalence

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Sentence Equivalence → Select all categories. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Word Problems

Assigning Variables

Writing Equations

Number of Variables

Age Questions

Intro to Motion Questions

Average Speed

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the boxes for Word Problems. Do 10 questions. Remember that timing needs to be a focus of your practice form here on out.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Verbal and Quant

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, take a full-length practice test!

Be sure that you have around 2 hours of uninterrupted focus time. You want your practice test experience to be as realistic as possible. Remember that there are no breaks given during the GRE.

In your Magoosh dashboard, navigate to Practice → Practice Test.

Don’t worry about reviewing the test immediately after you finish. That will kick off the next session.

Open your error log for a deep-dive review of your practice test. For this and the remaining practice tests, pacing should be a priority.

Consider the following:

Which question types are still giving you the most trouble in terms of timing?

Are you able to identify question types that you should skip in order to improve your overall pacing? If not, doing so should become a priority in your practice and review.

Can you identify questions on which you should have spent MORE time?

As always, work through the following:

Determine why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos. Don’t worry about watching them out of order or watching them again.

Be aware of any trends (especially regarding pacing) that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Multiple Traveler Question

Shrinking and Expanding Gaps

Work Questions

Growth and Decay

Mixture Questions

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the boxes for Word Problems. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Sets and Venn Diagrams

Double Matrix Method

Three Criteria Venn Diagrams

Intro to Sequences

Arithmetic Sequences

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the boxes for Word Problems. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Verbal and Quant

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the fifth deck, Number Properties II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Recursive Sequences

Inclusive Counting

Sums of Sequences

Consecutive Integers

Quiz: Word Problems

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the boxes for Word Problems. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Sentence Shifts

More Reversers

Double Shifts

Time Shifts

Shifts in Perception

Multiple Shifts

False Contrast

Deviating from the Norm

Reverse Apposition

Quiz: Text Completion – Sentence Shifts

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Text Completion→ Select All. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Exponents

Exponential Growth

Law of Exponents – I

Negative Exponents

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Powers and Roots. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Law of Exponents – II

Units Digit Questions

Square Roots

Other Roots

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Powers and Roots. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Verbal

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Properties of Roots

Simplifying Roots

Operations with Roots

Equations with Square Roots

Fractional Exponents

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Powers and Roots. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Exponential Equations

Rationalizing

Working with Formulas

Quiz: Powers and Roots

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Powers and Roots. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

The Paradox Argument

Bold-faced Arguments

Don’t Forget the Conclusion

Eliminating All the Answers

Numbers vs. Percents

Quiz: Paragraph Argument

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal→ Reading Comprehension → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Paragraph Arguments. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Double Blank Sentences

Multiple Sentences

Relationship between Blanks

Back to Back Blanks

Other Blank is the Clue

Advanced Double Blanks

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Text Completion→ Clear All → Check the box Double Blanks. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Verbal

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the sixth deck, Statistics & Probability. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Lines and Angles

Triangles Part I

Assumptions and Estimation

Geometry Strategies

Triangles Part II

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Clear All→ Only check the box next to Geometry. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Right Triangles

Similar Triangles

Special Right Triangles

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Clear All→ Only check the box next to Geometry. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Quadrilaterals

Area of Quadrilaterals

Polygons

Regular Polygons

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Clear All→ Only check the box next to Geometry. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Circles

Circle Properties

Circles, Arcs, and Sectors

Volume and Surface Area

Scale Factor and Scaling

Units of Measurement

Geometry Strategies – Part II

Quiz: Geometry

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Clear All→ Only check the box next to Geometry. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Verbal

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

The Coordinate Plane

Graphing Lines

Vertical and Horizontal Lines

Slope

Intercepts

Slope-Intercept Form

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Coordinate Plane. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Writing Equations of Lines

Distance Between Two Points

Reflections in the x-y Plane

Graphs of Quadratics

Quiz: Coordinate Geometry

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Coordinate Plane. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Mean, Median, Mode

More on Mean and Median

Weighted Averages I

Weighted Averages II (Advanced)

Range and Standard Deviation

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Statistics. Do 8 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Triple Blank Sentences

Long Triple Blank Sentences

Beware of Counter Intuitive Choices

One Sentence Triple Blank

Advanced Triple Blanks

Hidden Clues

Multiple Word Answers

Working Backwards

Quiz: Text Completion – Triple Blanks

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Text Completion→ Select All. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

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Verbal

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the seventh deck, Mixed Practice I. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

More Standard Deviation

Normal Distribution

Quartiles and Boxplots

More on Boxplots

Percentiles

Quiz: Statistics

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Statistics. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Introduction to Counting

Fundamental Counting Principle

FCP with Restrictions

Factorial Notation

Counting What You Don’t Want

Counting with Identical Items

Eliminating Repetition

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Counting. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Combinations

When to Use Combinations

Calculating Combinations

Permutations and Combinations

Counting Strategies 3:17

Quiz: Counting 5 questions

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Counting. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, take a full-length practice test!

Be sure that you have around 2 hours of uninterrupted focus time. You want your practice test experience to be as realistic as possible. Remember that there are no breaks given during the GRE.

In your Magoosh dashboard, navigate to Practice → Practice Test.

Don’t worry about reviewing the test immediately after you finish. That will kick off the next session.

Open your error log for a deep-dive review of your practice test. For this and the remaining practice tests, pacing should be a priority.

Consider the following:

Which question types are still giving you the most trouble in terms of timing?

Are you able to identify question types that you should skip in order to improve your overall pacing? If not, doing so should become a priority in your practice and review.

Can you identify questions on which you should have spent MORE time?

As always, work through the following:

Determine why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos. Don’t worry about watching them out of order or watching them again.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Probability

Complementary Events and Simple Rules

Probability of Event A OR Event B

Examples of the OR Rule

Independent Events

Examples of the AND Rule

Generalized AND Rule

Examples of Generalized AND Rule

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Probability. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Binomial Situation

The “At Least” Scenario

Analyzing Questions

Using Counting Techniques

Listing vs Counting vs Probability Rules

General Probability Strategies

Guessing Strategies

Quiz: Probability

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → All Math → Select Clear All→ Check the box for Probability. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

Intro to Data Interpretation

Data Interpretation Strategy

Types of DI Graphics

Scatter Plots

Unconventional Graphs

Quiz: Data Interpretation

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Data Interpretation. Do 5 questions.

Note: As with some of the Reading Comprehension questions, the Data Interpretation questions come in batches, typically 2 or 3 questions, pertaining to the same graph or chart. You should do all the questions in a set at once, which means you may do a few more or less than 5 DI questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

QC Questions & Inequalities

QC Strategies – Picking Numbers

QC Questions & Algebra

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Quantitative Comparison → Select All. Do 10 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eighth deck, Mixed Practice II. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

QC Questions & Geometry

QC Questions & Integer Properties

Summary of QC Strategies

Quiz: Advanced QC Strategies

Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Quantitative Comparison → Select All. Do 5 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of today’s practice questions.

Congratulations! 🥳 At this point, you should have seen all of the Magoosh lessons at least once. Now the focus is going to be on a whole lot of practice and applying everything that you’ve learned from the lesson videos. But! You aren’t done with the lesson videos.

They are a resource you should return to, maybe even multiple times. For example, if there are areas in which you are still weak, you should rewatch those videos. When you miss questions during practice, you should rewatch the video(s) that covers that topic and any related videos that are recommended on the question review screen. Remember that full comprehension comes in several stages: always push yourself to reach a deeper understanding with each and every topic.

If you have exhausted or are near to exhausting Magoosh’s GRE question bank, you should feel free to supplement your practice with questions from the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb book of practice questions.

1.) Supplemental review of content or practice in the OG or Manhattan’s 5lb.

2.) Review fundamental math concepts in the lessons that ETS and Kahn Academy partnered to make.

3.) Read to Build Essential GRE Verbal Skills

Read 1-3 articles or a chapter (or more) from your material(s) of choice. As you read, note grammatical structures that prove challenging, and try to rephrase them in simpler terms. Also, be sure to look up and write down any words you don’t know–they should be added to your flashcards.

4.) If you weren’t able to incorporate the recommended daily study of your flashcards (math or verbal), now’s the time to do so.

5.) Dig into Magoosh’s GRE Blog for all kinds of advice from focused study tips to general advice about the admissions process.

6.) Through your dashboard, launch custom practice sessions to focus on your weaker subject areas/question types or launch quantitative or verbal practice sections for more timed practice with various question types.

Rest – It’s an essential part of the process

Take a break! You deserve one!

Focus on mixed practice and review: During this week, you should do two rounds of the verbal and two rounds of the quantitative practice sessions listed below, and the daily additional practice described at the end.

Verbal Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Verbal Error Log Deep Dive: Analyze the entirety of your verbal error log to determine whether there is a particular type of passage or type of question that most challenges you. If so, in terms of pacing, consider whether to leave that passage type for the end, or whether skipping/guessing is appropriate for the question types that you consistently miss. If you don’t identify any weaknesses, great!

If you are completing the verbal sections on time, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, consider the questions that are taking you a long time to slog through–those are questions that should be marked, skipped, and returned to after you’ve answered all the questions that are easier for you to navigate.

Once you’ve identified your weak points in the verbal section. rather than practice more of these questions, go back and review the lessons associated with them and then reattempt a few questions that you missed in previous practice sessions.

Quantitative Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Quantitative Error Log Deep Dive: Analyze the entirety of your quant error log to determine whether there are particular subject areas or question types that most challenge you. If so, in terms of pacing, consider whether skipping/guessing is appropriate for the question types that you consistently miss. If you don’t identify any weaknesses, great! If you are completing the quantitative sections on time, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, consider the questions that are taking you a long time to slog through–those are questions that should be marked, skipped, and returned to after you’ve answered all the questions that are easier for you to navigate.

Once you’ve identified your weak points in the quantitative section. rather than practice more of these questions, go back and review the lessons associated with them and then reattempt a few questions that you missed in previous practice sessions.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the ninth deck, Mixed Practice III. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Focus on mixed practice and review: During this week, you should do two rounds of the verbal and two rounds of the quantitative practice sessions listed below, and the daily additional practice described at the end.

Verbal Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Quantitative Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of any questions you’ve missed this week.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the ninth deck, Mixed Practice III. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Official Practice Test and Review

Through ETS, take PowerPrep Test 1!

Be sure that you have around 2 hours of uninterrupted focus time. You want your practice test experience to be as realistic as possible. Remember that there are no breaks given during the GRE.

Practice Test Review

Open your error log for a deep-dive review of your practice test. Remember that pacing should be a priority during this review.

Consider the following:

Which question types are still giving you the most trouble in terms of timing?

Are you able to identify question types that you should skip in order to improve your overall pacing? If not, doing so should become a priority in your practice and review.

Can you identify questions on which you should have spent MORE time?

As always, work through the following:

Determine why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos. Don’t worry about watching them out of order or watching them again. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.

Be aware of any trends that help you identify your strengths and weaknesses.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons. If you guessed or just weren’t all that sure how you arrived at the correct answer, devote time to reviewing the explanations and absorbing the underlying concepts and solution steps.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the tenth deck, Mixed Practice IV. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Flex Week

You earned it! Spend the time you would have spent studying for the GRE doing something enjoyable! Or if you can’t help yourself, spend some time reviewing your error log or working through targeted practice drills and review through your Magoosh dashboard or supplementary materials.

But….you should still incorporate:

Flashcard Review: (at least 15-30 minutes/day)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the tenth deck, Mixed Practice IV. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Focus on mixed practice and review: During this week, you should do two rounds of the verbal and two rounds of the quantitative practice sessions listed below, and the daily additional practice described at the end.

Verbal Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Quantitative Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of any questions you’ve missed this week.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the eleventh deck, Mixed Practice V. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Focus on mixed practice and review: During this week, you should do two rounds of the verbal and two rounds of the quantitative practice sessions listed below, and the daily additional practice described at the end.

Verbal Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Quantitative Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of any questions you’ve missed this week.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the eleventh deck, Mixed Practice V. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Focus on mixed practice and review: During this week, you should do two rounds of the verbal and two rounds of the quantitative practice sessions listed below, and the daily additional practice described at the end.

Verbal Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Last Verbal Error Log Deep Dive: Analyze the entirety of your verbal error log to determine whether there is a particular type of passage or type of question that most challenges you. If so, in terms of pacing, consider whether to leave that passage type for the end, or whether skipping/guessing is appropriate for the question types that you consistently miss. If you don’t identify any weaknesses, great!

If you are completing the verbal sections on time, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, consider the questions that are taking you a long time to slog through–those are questions that should be marked, skipped, and returned to after you’ve answered all the questions that are easier for you to navigate.

Once you’ve identified your weak points in the verbal section. rather than practice more of these questions, go back and review the lessons associated with them and then reattempt a few questions that you missed in previous practice sessions.

Quantitative Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Last Quantitative Error Log Deep Dive: Analyze the entirety of your quant error log to determine whether there are particular subject areas or question types that most challenge you. If so, in terms of pacing, consider whether skipping/guessing is appropriate for the question types that you consistently miss. If you don’t identify any weaknesses, great!

If you are completing the quantitative sections on time, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, consider the questions that are taking you a long time to slog through–those are questions that should be marked, skipped, and returned to after you’ve answered all the questions that are easier for you to navigate.

Once you’ve identified your weak points in the quantitative section. rather than practice more of these questions, go back and review the lessons associated with them and then reattempt a few questions that you missed in previous practice sessions.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the last deck, Mixed Practice VI. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

First ½ of the week: Focus on Mixed Practice and Review.

Focus on mixed practice and review: During the first few days, you should do two rounds of the verbal and two rounds of the quantitative practice sessions listed below, and the daily additional practice described at the end.

Verbal Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Verbal → Launch a Verbal GRE Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 23 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Quantitative Practice

Navigate to your dashboard and select Practice → Custom Practice → Math → Select All Math. Launch a Math Section (look for the book icon near the top of the screen). You’ll have 26 minutes to complete the 15 questions.

Review

Error log analysis of any questions you’ve missed this week.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Continue to review the cards in the last deck, Mixed Practice VI. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Second ½ of the week: Official Practice Test and Review

Through ETS, take PowerPrep Test 2! Be sure that you have around 2 hours of uninterrupted focus time. You want your practice test experience to be as realistic as possible. Remember that there are no breaks given during the GRE.

Final Practice Test Review

Open your error log for a deep-dive review of your final (maybe) practice test.

Consider the following:

Reflect on the testing process: Are you satisfied with your performance? Do you feel ready to take the GRE?

If yes, try to articulate the pacing choices etc. that helped you navigate this practice test successfully.

If no, try to determine what went wrong? Did you spend too long on a question that you should have skipped or guessed? Were you feeling tired or feeling frustrated by distractors?

As always, work through the following:

Determine why you missed the question

Read any related text explanations and watch any related video explanations

Watch any recommended lesson videos. Don’t worry about watching them out of order or watching them again. You’ll likely be watching the videos a few times, especially those that relate to your weaker areas.

Double check that you got the correct ones right for the right reasons. If you guessed or just weren’t all that sure how you arrived at the correct answer, devote time to reviewing the explanations and absorbing the underlying concepts and solution steps.

Daily Additional Practice (at least 15-30 minutes)

In Magoosh’s GRE Math Flashcards

Begin to review the cards in the last deck, Mixed Practice VI. Also, review any cards you haven’t mastered in the previous decks.

In Magoosh’s GRE Vocabulary Flashcards

Work on mastering 10-20 more cards from the Magoosh flashcard decks or your own flashcards/wordlists.

Last Lesson

Watch this final lesson: Test Day

Day Before

Focus on feeling your best for test day!

No GRE preparation

Eat a large, healthy, leisurely dinner—no alcohol

Go to bed earlier than usual

Day Of

ABSOLUTELY NO LAST MINUTE CRAMMING!

Eat a large breakfast, full of protein

Do relaxing, fun activities to pass time until the test

If you have any remaining time before your exam, focus on a concentrated review

For whatever days remain before your test, keep up the work on GRE math and verbal. Some suggestions for what to do:

By selecting question type and difficulty on your “Dashboard,” keep doing Magoosh problems or do problems you’ve previously attempted over again to see how you do a second time.

Keep watching Magoosh lesson videos on whatever topics you feel you need to review.

Keep reading challenging material to build vocabulary and acclimate to complex sentence structures.

Keep drilling your vocab flashcards and your math flashcards.

If you have time for more practice tests, you can check out the free and paid versions of ETS Power Prep. Another highly recommended source for practice tests are those produced by Manhattan Prep.

You have done an incredible amount of work, so be proud of what you’ve accomplished!

Good luck! 🙂