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<blockquote data-quote="Edogu" data-source="post: 295411" data-attributes="member: 47023"><p>Hello, sorry for the late reply, thank you for the advice! Congratulations on your conditional offer, I'm sure you'll get the score you need! May I ask where you applied?</p><p></p><p>My advice for the verbal part would be the following:</p><p>I think the main difficulty of GRE verbal is the vocabulary. Of course the fill-in-the-blank kind of exercises are very hard if your vocabulary is poor, but I noticed that a better vocabulary also markedly improves your reading comprehension. </p><p>I personally find it very boring and daunting to memorize a long list of words, and I usually end up forgetting most of them after a few days anyways.</p><p>I think a more hands-on approach is much more effective. Try the following for fill in the blanks exercises.</p><p>Do a lot of practice sections and write down all the words you don't know. Most of the times you won't be able to solve an exercise because you don't know the meaning of one or two key words in the sentence (not in the answer choices!). GRE words look very complicated but they usually either have a positive or negative meaning. Try to infer if the meaning is positive or negative from other elements in the sentence like adverbs. I recommend to never look at the answer choices because they are misleading. Only once you made your guess and you think you understand what the sentence needs in order to be completed, look at the answer choices and select one that makes sense. </p><p>Now that you know the expected meaning of the sentence, if there are words that you don't know in the answer choices, you should be able to eliminate at least a few of them. </p><p></p><p>Once you answered look up the meaning of all the words you didn't know and check if your inference made sense. You will learn new words much better this way because you spent a long time thinking about the possible meaning, and you will also get much better in dealing with situations when you don't know a few words.</p><p>I don't think you can train your reading comprehension all that much. Reading lots of books can definitely be helpful. </p><p>Hope this was helpful, good luck and have a great week!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Edogu, post: 295411, member: 47023"] Hello, sorry for the late reply, thank you for the advice! Congratulations on your conditional offer, I'm sure you'll get the score you need! May I ask where you applied? My advice for the verbal part would be the following: I think the main difficulty of GRE verbal is the vocabulary. Of course the fill-in-the-blank kind of exercises are very hard if your vocabulary is poor, but I noticed that a better vocabulary also markedly improves your reading comprehension. I personally find it very boring and daunting to memorize a long list of words, and I usually end up forgetting most of them after a few days anyways. I think a more hands-on approach is much more effective. Try the following for fill in the blanks exercises. Do a lot of practice sections and write down all the words you don't know. Most of the times you won't be able to solve an exercise because you don't know the meaning of one or two key words in the sentence (not in the answer choices!). GRE words look very complicated but they usually either have a positive or negative meaning. Try to infer if the meaning is positive or negative from other elements in the sentence like adverbs. I recommend to never look at the answer choices because they are misleading. Only once you made your guess and you think you understand what the sentence needs in order to be completed, look at the answer choices and select one that makes sense. Now that you know the expected meaning of the sentence, if there are words that you don't know in the answer choices, you should be able to eliminate at least a few of them. Once you answered look up the meaning of all the words you didn't know and check if your inference made sense. You will learn new words much better this way because you spent a long time thinking about the possible meaning, and you will also get much better in dealing with situations when you don't know a few words. I don't think you can train your reading comprehension all that much. Reading lots of books can definitely be helpful. Hope this was helpful, good luck and have a great week! [/QUOTE]
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