Category: GRE Verbal Tips

  • Top 10 Tips for GRE Verbal: Strategies to Boost Your Verbal Reasoning Skills

    Top 10 Tips for GRE Verbal: Strategies to Boost Your Verbal Reasoning Skills

    Feeling anxious about the Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE? Don’t worry, we’ve got your back! As you prepare for this important exam, it’s crucial to master your verbal reasoning skills. In this article, we will share top strategies to enhance your GRE Verbal performance and boost your confidence on test day. Tip 1: Develop…

  • How to Improve GRE Reading Comprehension

    GRE Reading Comprehension is probably the most difficult section to improve in. Even when progress occurs, it happens slowly. Many become understandably discouraged. After all, there are few sections in which you can feel flustered and perplexed even after reading the explanation. Perhaps my number one GRE Verbal tip on this matter is simply: Don’t…

  • Active Reading Strategies for the GRE

    Read the following passage and then we’ll talk: Once American men returned from the WWII battlefields, they quickly displaced the women who had temporarily filled jobs otherwise reserved for men. With most women reverting to their domestic role, the dramatic increase in the number of infants born is perhaps not too surprising. Yet, such factors…

  • Turn Words and Phrases on the GRE

    Doing well on the GRE verbal means being able to notice the flow of logic in a paragraph. The text is dense and the ideas expressed are complex and nuanced, so it is easy to miss what the passage is trying to communicate. By paying attention to several key words, which I call “turn words”,…

  • GRE Academic Structures

    In both the GRE Reading Comprehension passages and the Text Completions, certain phrases may show up that can give a sentence a spin. If you are not familiar with these phrases, your head is likely to spin. Take a look at the following two sentences. He was ________ , always giving to those in need.…

  • What to Do When You Don’t Know a Word on the GRE

    Chances are pretty good that a word may pop up on the exam that you’ve never seen before — no matter how many GRE vocabulary lists you’ve reviewed. If English is not your first language, this is even more true. I had a student learn over 5,000 words to be prepared. But it’s hard to…

  • GRE Verbal Reasoning: Five Tips for Doing Well

    Below are five straightforward GRE verbal reasoning tips to help boost your score to the top of the GRE score range. 1. Know your vocabulary There is no way around it. To do well on the GRE you have to know your vocabulary. There are plenty of word lists that can help you get started. Flashcards…

  • Pacing on GRE Reading Comprehension (RC)

    “I could get them all right, if I had unlimited time…” is a common refrain I hear from those struggling with pacing on the RC. While such reasoning may not be entirely valid, as the questions themselves can be quite devious, and the passages…well dry, dense, and esoteric are just the beginning of it…having 45…

  • Should I Take Notes on GRE Reading Passages?

    To answer this question, I am going to employ two metaphors:   Training Wheels As children many of us pedaled about on a bicycle equipped with training wheels. Were it not for the training wheels, we would have taken an unfortunate spill. That day would finally come when, after our legs had become stronger and our…

  • I Am Terrible at GRE Verbal – Help!

    This is a common refrain from those who attempt the GRE verbal section for the first time. After all, seeing difficult words, twisted syntax, and dense passages on abstruse topics can make even avid readers tense up. If you typically do not care much for reading and/or have been out of college for a while,…