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1 Month GRE Study Schedule

BY MIKE MᶜGARRY ON MARCH 2, 2012 IN STUDY GUIDES AND PLANS Tweet

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Questions about the revised schedule">[email protected]. Bonus: This study schedule is also available in a redesigned, printable version! Reddit 6 Before you begin, check out some strategies for making the most of your study schedule.

OK, you are starting more or less from scratch, and you want to prepare for the GRE in one month. You need a strategic plan to organize yourself. Fasten your seatbelts! Note: This is a detailed, stepbystep daily breakdown of the 1 month schedule—if you’d like more broad goals and tasks for every week with less focus on math basics, you should use the “general” version. Do you need to adapt this study schedule to meet your needs? Check out this blog post for adjustment tips!

Essential Materials: 1) Magoosh GRE Prep 2) ETS’s Official Guide to the GRE book If you already own a 1st edition of the Official Guide, don’t feel you have to buy the 2nd edition. The only difference between the two books is that the 2nd edition has an extra practice test at the very back. If you run out of practice tests, then you might want to pick up the 2nd edition even if you already own the 1st. 3) ETS’s PowerPrep Software: If you would prefer to take the practice test on paper, you can print out ETS’s Free 7Day GRE Email Course! practice test PDF (with video explanations here). Take note that the PowerPrep software and the paperbased test https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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have overlapping material, so it won’t be of much help to do both, unless you space them out far enough so that you won’t recognize the questions and answers! I recommend using the PowerPrep software if you can, since taking Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. the test on a computer is a better simulation of exam day conditions. You can now use PowerPrep for Mac. 4) A journal or notebook (yes, a physical hard copy item) 5) Magoosh’s online GRE Flashcards. They’re free and you can use them on the web, on your iPhone/iPad or Android. 6) Notecards (or Quizlet.com)

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Share20 The books of official questions: The Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions and The Official GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions. If you are need more high quality practice question, these are Tweet excellent sources! Sign up to receive one email per day from Easy magazines: Time, Newsweek, Scientific American (start low…but not too low; these magazines are still Magoosh's GRE expert, Chris Lele. Each Share filled with decent content) email will be jampacked with actionable Difficult magazines: Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Economist GRE study tips to help you improve your Pin 251 Vocabulary.com: provides conversational example sentences and a flood of example sentences score! Word Dynamo (Dictionary.com): gives you little quizzes & games to add some variety to vocab learning Reddit 6 Magoosh GRE Prep App on iPhone or Android, for mobile practice One volume of the Manhattan GRE series: if you know one area or question type is particular difficult for you, Email Address and you can fit some outside reading into this already intense schedule, then it might be worthwhile to buy one volume of the this 8volume set. Any one volume would also give you access to their online resources, First Name including practice tests.

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A note on learning GRE vocabulary:  first of all, it’s important not only to learn the literal dictionary definition (the denotation), but also to understand the metaphorical use of the word in context (the connotation). For example, the word “opaque” literally means “not transparent”, but metaphorically it can means “hard to understand” or, describing a person, it can mean “thickheaded, stupid.” Ultimately, you should strive to learn both the denotation and the connotation of each word. Daily review of vocab is vital. I wrote this schedule recommending the Magoosh’s GRE Flashcards, but DO NOT limit yourself to just these words. AS YOU READ and find more words you don’t know, look them up, make flashcards (including context), and make your own flashcard decks. You could have one pile for words whose denotation you are trying to master, another containing words for which you know the denotation but not the connotation, and a “done” stack that gets reviewed only rarely. A note on the prep books: Don’t write in any of the test prep books, because for any of them, after a period of time you may want to go back and do a problem again that you haven’t seen for a while.  You can only start it fresh if the page is free of your marks. This onemonth plan is a furiously intense pace, designed to have a person improve as much as possible in a month’s time. I have designed four weeks, assuming 24 hours for each of the five weekdays, and one 56 stint on the weekend (“Day Six”). If you would prefer to work on both weekend days, and free up some weeknight time, feel free to make those changes. Note: Many folks find that each day’s assignments take 24 hours, although times to complete them will vary for different students. It is possible that a day’s assignments will take significantly longer, and you may have to devote longer weekend sessions to finishing the week’s work.

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Also, as much as possible, get enough sleep during this month. REM sleep plays an important role in encoding long term memory, and in an eight hour period of sleep, the last hour has the most REM. If you are getting 7 Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. hours/night instead of 8 hours/night, you are depriving your brain of one of its most powerful systems for learning and ing. Caffeine and energy drinks will keep you feeling awake if you don’t get enough sleep, but they don’t do bupkis to replace the lost opportunity to encode more information into long term memory. I realize it will be hard both to follow this plan diligently and get 8+ hr/night of sleep if you are working fulltime. If you are working fulltime, I would say it will be very hard to improve as much as you could in only one month’s time, and I would recommend pushing the test date a little further back, if possible. If that’s not possible, then just do as much of this plan as you can, as much as time will allow. A note about additional materials:   Magoosh contains all the information you need for wild success on the exam and many students have achieved 277 SHARES spectacular results using nothing but Magoosh.  Nevertheless, this plan recommends that you buy additional materials and use them, in addition to the Magoosh materials.  Here’s why: These plans were structured with far Share20 reaching pedagogical principles in mind, and a deep consideration for how the human brain learns. Most people cannot hear or read something just once and, from that single hearing,  it completely and understand it Tweet fully. Sign up to receive one email per day from

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Week One, Day One 1) Go to ETS.org, and read about the content of the GRE.  Click on and read each subheading link. 2) In the Official Guide, Read Chapter 1 “Introducing the GRE revised General Test” Read Chapter 2 “GRE Analytic Writing”—skim or skip the example essays and the commentary on them, and read everything else Read Chapter 3 “GRE Verbal Reasoning”—just the introductory pages, before the Sample Question Set Read Chapter 5 “GRE Quantitative Reasoning”—just the introductory pages, before the Sample Questions 3) Start reading through the GRE Math Review in the Official Guide, up to the Arithmetic Exercises.  Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar.  Do the Arithmetic Exercises and correct your answers. NOTE: Many GRE test takers struggle with ing math, so for these readers, I am suggesting this first week working through of the Official Guide’s Math Review section.  If you are someone for whom math comes easily, I would say: skim this section, do the exercises, and spend the rest of the time devoted to this building your vocabulary, using our flashcards and possibly more, such as Princeton Review’s book Word Smart. 4) In Magoosh Lessons, watch the following videos: https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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4) In Magoosh Practice, in Math, do 10 Multiple Choice (MC) questions, 15 Quantitative Comparison (QC) questions, First Name and 3 Data Interpretation (DI) questions.  Filter for “Math” in Section. Uncheck all of the Subjects (Algebra, Coordinate Geometry, Data Interpretation, etc.), set the Difficulty to “Adaptive”, Question Pool to “Unanswered”, SIGN UP NOW! Time to “No Limit”, and Mode to “Practice Mode”. You are not entering a practice time beforehand, but keep a pace of 90 sec/question, or 15 minutes for 10 questions. Notice you are doing ALL topics from the getgo, whether you have already studied these or not.  This means that you will make some mistakes at the beginning: see this post on a productive attitude toward making mistakes. If, after a week or so of practice, you find that there is simply too much new material for you, then narrow your studies to those topics you’re more actively studying plus one or two that you’re unfamiliar with. You should be constantly challenged. If you do narrow the topics of study, expand back to as wide a scope as possible as quickly as possible. Also, in Verbal, do 10 Text Completion (TC) questions, 10 Sentence Equivalence (SE) questions, and 10 Reading Comprehension (RC) questions.  Similar settings as above. NOTE: for each RC, you should do all the questions (usually 3) associated with a age on one sitting.  This may mean you do 9 RC questions some days, and 12 some days.  That’s fine, as long as the average pace is around 10 RC questions/day. For each Magoosh problem, after you submit your answer, on the next page which tells you whether you were right or wrong, there’s a video solution and below that a text summary.  If you got the question right, skim the text summary to  you got it right for the right reason.  If you got the question wrong, watch the video, taking notes in your journal about any concept or any aspect of the question type that was unclear to you. NOTE: For all math, you will be doing mixed practice.  The temptation is to work on what you are studying at the moment, but that fails to simulate real test conditions.  You don’t really understand a concept until you can answer Free 7Day GRE Email Course! a question about it in mixed practice.  At the beginning, we know you will make mistakes on topics that you have https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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studied in depth yet, and that’s OK.  See this post on having a productive attitude toward mistakes.   If you make mistakes and the beginning and study them well, that will prime your mind for deeper understand when you learn Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. more about those concepts in the lessons.

Week One, Day Three 1) Continue reading the GRE Math Review, up to the Algebra Exercises.  Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar.  Do the Algebra Exercises and correct your answers. 2) In Magoosh Lessons, watch the following videos:

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Week One, Day Four 1) Continue reading the GRE Math Review, up to the Geometry Exercises.  Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar.  Do the Geometry Exercises and correct your answers. 2) In Magoosh Lessons, watch the following videos: In Math: watch the next 10 videos In Verbal: watch the next 4 videos 3) In Magoosh’s GRE Flashcards, begin and master a new deck, if possible. Spend 10 – 30 minutes reviewing previous decks, completing any that are started but not yet mastered. 4) In Magoosh Practice, do 10 Multiple Choice math questions https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/


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Week One, Day Six 1) Finish reading through the GRE Math Review.  Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar.  Do the Data Analysis Exercises and correct your answers. 2) In Magoosh Lessons, watch the following videos: In Math: watch the next 5 videos In Writing: watch all 10 videos 3)  and start reading the Magoosh GRE eBook. Continue reading whenever you have the time over the Free 7Day GRE Email Course! course of the next two weeks. https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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4) Today, you are going to write two essays, half an hour each.  You will write one Issue essay and one Argument essay. Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. The good news is that any prompt that you could possibly see test day is already on the ETS website: the pool of possible Issue prompts and the pool of the possible Argument prompts. For each essay, you can choose the essay prompt at random from the respective pool, or you might want to choose an essay topic that seems challenging to you. Write the essay in a word processing program. If you can turn off the spell check all the better–you won’t have the luxury of spell check test day.  For each essay, hold yourself to a strict 30 time limit. Now that you have these essays, what do you do with them?  If you have a friend or mentor who is a gifted writer, ask them to read the essays for you and critique them. If they are willing, you can show them the assessment criteria in the Official Guide, and ask them to follow it. If you can afford it, hire a writing coach or writing tutor: 277 SHARES show that tutor the assessment criteria in the OG, and have them give you .  If you can’t afford a writing tutor and can’t convince anyone else to read it, you may try posting them on TheGradCafe, and see whether an Share20 expert there will critique your essay.  Failing any of these options, at least you can set the essays aside, and in a couple days reread them with the Official Guide’s rubric beside you. Tweet Sign up to receive one email per day from

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2) In Magoosh’s GRE Flashcards, begin and master a new deck, if possible. Spend 10 – 30 minutes reviewing previous decks, completing any that are started but not yet mastered. 3) In Magoosh Practice, do the following questions: 20 Multiple Choice math questions 3 Data Interpretation math questions 10 Text Completion verbal questions 10 Sentence Equivalence verbal questions 10 Reading Comprehension verbal questions.

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2) In Magoosh’s GRE Flashcards, begin and master a new deck, if possible. Spend 10 – 30 minutes reviewing previous decks, completing any that are started but not yet mastered. Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. 3)  In Magoosh Practice, do 10 Multiple Choice math questions 15 Quantitative Comparison math questions 3 Data Interpretation math questions 10 Text Completion verbal questions 10 Sentence Equivalence verbal questions

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Week Two, Day Six 1) Today, you are going to write two essays, half an hour each.  You will write one Issue essay and one Argument essay. For topics, go back to the topic pools on the ETS website, and pick a topic.  Write the essays in Word. When done, share the essays with a trusted friend/mentor, or post in TheGradCafe, or set aside and critique it yourself with the Official Guide rubric in a few days. 2) In the Official Guide: a) do the Verbal Reasoning Practice Sets 16 b) do the Quantitative Reasoning Practice Sets 14


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Treat this as a mock GRE.  You might even combine it with the two essays, and do consecutive batches 23 sets without interruption, to simulate more effectively a real GRE.  Set a timer for the time limits.  Here are the time Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. limits to observe: Verbal Reasoning Set 1 = 9 minutes Verbal Reasoning Set 2 = 10 minutes Verbal Reasoning Set 3 = 9 minutes Verbal Reasoning Set 4 = 10 minutes Verbal Reasoning Set 5 = 10 minutes

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Week Three, Day Six 1) Today, you are going to take one of the hardcopy practice GRE at the back of the Official Guide. For the two essay questions, write the essays in a word processing program. These essays you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for , or critique later with the Official Guide rubric.



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Swapna May 18, 2013 at 12:52 am # Hi Mike, I’ve taken the revised GRE for the first time and scored 303 (V148, Q155, AWA – 4.0). Although I am quite happy with my Quant score(considering I am applying to Biology), I only have 44 percentile in verbal. All the universities that I want to apply require a minimum of 50 percentile which would be 153. I want to buy 1month GRE plan from Magoosh since my test is on June 20th and I wanted to know if it is different from the regular 6months valid  GRE plan. I am hoping to see an improvement in my verbal and also in my quant even though I am quite ok with the quant score. I want to use Magoosh Free 7Day GRE Email Course! for the entire month and just a little skeptical about the 1month plan. Thanks!! https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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kendra April 26, 2013 at 9:39 pm # Hello I took the gre on the 15th and did really bad. I am now doing the 30 day plan and hope this will increase my score. V138 Q140 for grad school I need a 294.

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kendra April 29, 2013 at 9:46 am # Yea I’ve been doing the 30 day plan and also using the Barron book

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Mike April 18, 2013 at 1:54 pm # Naveen, Here’s what I recommend (1) Study this 1month plan assiduously (2) Buy Magoosh, watch all the verbal lessons, then watch them all a second time. (3) Buy the MGRE verbal books and read through them (4) Over and above your GRE prep, read English, high level challenging English, for at least two hours each day. (5) Take notes, in English, on all of the above. (6) For the next month, give up any TV, any video games, any electronic entertainment. Focus on improving your English. Does all this make sense? Mike https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/


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I used Kaplan prep materials to study math in the 2 months leading up to the test then the week before I realized that the questions were way too easy (after taking the power prep test) so I bought Magoosh and spent the week cramming. Needless to say I think you guys saved my math score. I’m applying to quantitatively heavy masters programs and I need to get my math score up at least 5 points. I think I just fell victim to test jitters + stupid mistakes so I’m going to take it again in a month. Do you think the schedule here will help me accomplish the 5 point gain? Can you suggest any tweaks? Do you think it is worth combining with the Manhattan math prep books?

Mike August 26, 2012 at 10:28 pm # I think the schedule here will help you. I would also suggest look at the math resources in 90 Day Verbal Focus plan, esp. the NOVA book — you can mix some of those in. Also, the MGRE books are great, so those can’t hurt. If you learn all the math strategies Magoosh teaches, all the math strategies in the MGRE books, I think you will be more than ready next time. Mike

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Kim August 27, 2012 at 4:28 pm # thank you so much Mike! I guess I’ll retake it early november

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Monica Lazaro August 2, 2012 at 12:28 pm # Hello, I have purchased your product and was wondering about the 30 day study plan. I see that the math sections do indeed skip around. I wanted to make sure that all the videos are covered in the month span? Thank You!

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ALI SOHAIL July 17, 2012 at 11:56 am # hi mike..i learned about your one month plan.i have been preparing for some time for GRE now.but not getting the desired score in practice tests i gave.actually i feel i have over studied.coz i have been studying regularly for 5 months i guess..My AWA is really weak..quants is just abt 680700 mark.and verbal i get score around 420.i need atleast 315 plus (1300 old score).will u one month plan will help??..can i be assured of 315 my target score.?. is there any money back guarantee?

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recommend the full 3month Verbal Focus Plan (http://magoosh.com/gre/2012/90daygrestudy Email Address planverbalfocused/)–if you want to fit all this improvement into only one month, then GRE preparation will have to be a fulltime job for you. Magoosh has radically improved the performance First Name of students like you. The limiting factor on how much you can improve is purely how much time & energy you can devote to it in this remaining period. SIGN UP NOW! Does that make sense? Mike

Dileep July 15, 2012 at 9:49 pm # Which month is the best to take GRE?whats the best score(out of 340) for applying to universities?Please help me with this….

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Dawit July 8, 2012 at 3:39 am # Hi Mike and Chris, Thank you for the great web page. I find it very essential to my GRE prep. I will be taking my exam on Aug04 and have 30 days to prep. I am strong when it comes to math. But

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yemmygb June 30, 2012 at 12:50 pm # thanks for the study guide. i intend to write the GRE on August 11. Will start using this guide tomorrow.

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Pranav June 26, 2012 at 2:49 pm # Hey, About this 1month schedule of yours, would it be better to jump on some sections in math which I get wrong on 10MC practice sets? Coz I’m getting some of the probability questions wrong and that section doesn’t come up until much later in the schedule. So should I follow it blindly? Free 7Day GRE Email Course! https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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Chris June 27, 2012 at 3:01 pm # Hi Rohit, It seems as though the GRE verbal section has been scaled down towards the lower end of the range. Meaning, you received closer to a 430 than a 530. Sorry I can’t be more precise than that, but ETS tends to be mum with its exact algorithm. For practice, we offer tough questions on the Verbal section. Manhattan GRE also offers six online tests, which give you plenty of practice. Hope that helps! Free 7Day GRE Email Course! https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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Jaizen June 21, 2012 at 5:55 am # Helllo, I recently signed up for this course and I will be starting the one month prep plan today! I have taken the GMAT previously and therefore I think that 1 month may be sufficient to get me a high percentile score. I do wonder though if you have any prep plans that focus on the more difficult aspects of the GRE? Thanks

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Priscilla S. June 20, 2012 at 6:42 pm # Hey Magoosh team, Just wanted to thank you guys for this study plan. I became a  subscriber and followed it, while doing plenty of practice outside of the guide. I scored significantly higher than my first GRE. Thanks again.

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KATIE May 4, 2012 at 1:41 pm # What do the numbers before the question types represent? Example: “6 QC (Section: “Math Quantitative Comparison “, check off all Subjects)” My question is about the number 6 here – does this mean 6 questions? 6 minutes? Not sure, can someone please clarify? Thanks! https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/


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Nimrod March 4, 2012 at 12:46 pm # Hi Mike and the rest of the Magoosh team, tank you for all the great advice! I took the GRE for the first time a month ago (157V, 152 Q. I panicked a bit), and now i’m regrouping, reconsidering and preparing myself for a second round. I’d love to hear your suggestions: Since I’ve taken a formal course, I’ve already studied for three and a half months before the test. It seems that without time pressure I can nail most of the GRE’s math questions, but since I’ve spend most of my adult life avoiding Math, it needs to be strengthened further. As for the Verbal part – with English as a second language, i’m realistic about my chances to hit the 170, but I hope for the best. In any case, I am a book learner, so I consider buying the Manhattan guides. at least for the Math. I also have some of the NOVA questions and a tiny bit of the Barron’s and ETS books that I didn’t reach on the previous round. Free 7Day GRE Email Course! https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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I’m uncertain as to how to manage my time and exactly when to take the test – I have some time until Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. i’m due to apply (i’m applying for 2013), and I need the highest grade I can possibly get. However, having a job, I have no idea how much time each day, other than the weekends, I could dedicate to studying. Any thoughts?

Mike March 19, 2012 at 12:17 pm # NImrod: First of all, I would say — if English is your second language, congratulations! You are much more fluent in a second language than I am! I would also say, it might be more important to get the Manhattan books for Verbal than for Math, because it sounds like you need more SHARESon the verbal side.. As far as when to take it, it’s hard to say. That depends on how much you can

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Nimrod March 19, 2012 at 1:20 pm # It did make sense, thank you. I got all of the Manhattan books, just in case. Although you guys found a few flaws in the Verbal books, I found that the drills are excellent – even the easy ones are not that easy, so for people like me, with English as a second language, I’d recommend them wholeheartedly. There isn’t too much TV, but you are right, of course. I am wondering, though – I have taken the GRE and got the aforementioned scores. Assuming I will have some time to practice (say, an hour or so a day, weekends, and some holidays are near) and good books and videos, is it realistic to attempt to get a top percentile grade, at least on the quantitative part? How many grade points does all this effort usually add?

Mike March 19, 2012 at 2:49 pm # You know, how realistic it is, how many points the effort adds, depends so much on you: how you learn, how you work, how you , etc. The more time each day you can put in consistently, the better your chances are. Make sure you see each and every Magoosh video at least once, taking notes on them as you watch them. I would recommend looking at the resources for the “Verbal Focused” 3month plan (http://magoosh.com/gre/2012/90day Free 7Day GRE Email Course! grestudyplanverbalfocused/). In particular, I would recommend the GMAT OG as an https://magoosh.com/gre/2012/1monthgrestudyschedule/

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additional practice source. GMAT math tends to be a bit more difficult than GRE math, so Show me Erica scored a 323! See how. practice with the GMAT will strengthen you GRE quantitative skills further. Also, check out http://gmatclub.com/forum/, an online forum for the GMAT: check out their problemsolving forum, which is essentially the same format as ordinary GRE quantitative MC. You will see some high level math discussions there, and if you follow those regularly, that will give you a huge edge on the GRE quantitative. Also, read all the math posts on the Magoosh GMAT blog: http://magoosh.com/gmat/ — you will find some sophisticated math there as well. I hope all these suggestions help. Mike

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