Prospective GRE test takers often don’t know where to begin when it comes to studying vocabulary for the test. What words should you study? How many words are reasonable to try to learn? What are the most effective ways to go about studying? We’ll answer the...
GMAT/GRE Verbal
How to Improve your GMAT or GRE Verbal Score: The Secret Weapon
The title may be a little inflated but what I would like to cover in this article is what I believe to be the single most important strategy point for Verbal questions and one that cuts across all Verbal questions types on both the GMAT and GRE. It is what I...
Verbal as the Key to a High Overall GMAT Score
In my last post I described how Data Sufficiency is, for many, the key to a high Quant score on the GMAT. I decided to continue this theme to discuss a related but, I think, more important point and one that I love to explain to people because it seems that...
GMAT Verbal Time Management: Speeding up on CR & RC
In this post I want to address one aspect of dealing with time management on the Verbal section of the GMAT: shaving time off of Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension questions. I recently tutored a couple of students who really benefitted from this...
GMAT Sentence Correction: Right Answers Are Often Deliberately Bad
People studying for the GMAT are often completely thrown by a correct answer on a sentence correction question that just “doesn’t sound good.” In their minds they think, “there is no way that can be the correct answer – that just sounds bad.” Even if that...
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