90 day gre study plan (verbal focused)

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Magoosh GRE Blog 90 Day GRE Study Plan (Verbal Focused) post.

OK, you are starting more or less from scratch, and you want to prepare for the GRE in 90 days.

You need a strategic plan to organize yourself. I designed four different versions of the 90 Day

Plan, and I need you to start with a little self-diagnosis. Which sounds most like you?

90 Day GRE Study Plan for Beginners: Help! Math and verbal both scare the living

bejeebers out of me! I need all the help and support I can get! Help!

90 Day GRE Study Plan (Math Focused): I have a natural affinity with the verbal, but the

math is far less intuitive for me. I would like to focus more there.

90 Day GRE Study Plan (Verbal Focused): Me a math nerd. Me think all math easy.

Me have big verbal problems. One day, me will talk good.

90 Day GRE Study Plan for Advanced Students: I actually feel reasonably comfortable

with math & verbal; if I took the test today, Id get around 310-320 combined score. Im

interested in refining my understanding and getting into the 320s region in the next twelve

weeks.

Essential Materials:

Magoosh GRE Prep

ETSs Official Guide to the GRE book (+ our free video explanations)

ETSs PowerPrep Software

If you would prefer to take the practice test on paper, you can print out ETSs

practice test PDF (with video explanations here). Take note that the Powerprep

software and the paper-based test have overlapping material, so it wont be of

much help to do both, unless you space them out far enough so that you wont

recognize the questions and answers! I recommend using the Powerprep

software if you can, since taking the test on a computer is a better simulation of

exam day conditions.

Magooshs online GRE Flash cards. Theyre free and you can use them on the web, on

your iPhone/iPad or Android.

Reading material: this may be any non-fiction scholarly book, history and social science

preferable. You may also choose one of the recommended magazines: Scientific

American, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Economist, or

The New York Times (a Sunday subscription is a great idea!). You are reading (a) to

build your reading comprehension skills, (b) to refine your understanding of grammar and

usage, and (c) to expand your vocabulary.

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a journal or notebook (yes, a physical hard copy item)

Notecards

Supplemental/Optional Materials:

Any of the steps listed in the schedule for the materials below are purely for extra practice, so

they are to be done as optional tasks if you have extra time.

Novas GRE Math Prep Course: there is essentially no instruction in this book and the

explanations are horrible: we only recommend this as a bank of challenging math

problems.

Volumes 7 & 8 of the Manhattan GRE books. Its an eight-volume set, so if you want

extra math practice, feel free to buy some of the other volumes. Volumes 7 & 8 are used

in this plan. One other purpose of getting these books is to get the code in the back, to

register and get access to six GRE tests online.

McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math: this book is for those struggling with the

very basics of math, folks who are sheer panic over almost anything mathematical. If

you are following this plan, youre probably pretty confident in your math skills, so Id

recommend this book only if youre really desperate for some extra practice material.

Quizlet.com: gives you online access to flashcards, making it easier, say, to quiz

yourself on your mobile device

Vocabulary.com: provides conversational example sentences and a flood of example

sentences

Word Dynamo (Dictionary.com): gives you little quizzes & games to add some variety to

vocab learning

Magoosh iPhone/Android app, for mobile lesson viewing

A note on learning GRE vocabulary:

First of all, its 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 thick-headed, 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 Magooshs GRE

Flashcards, but DO NOT limit yourself to just these words. AS YOU READ and find more words

you dont know, look them up, make flash cards (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.

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A note on the prep books:

Dont 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 havent seen for a while. You can only start it

fresh if the page is free of your marks.

A note on repeating material:

This schedule is fairly intensive, and if you follow it to a T, you will run out of practice questions

or certain question types from the bank of 1000+ Magoosh questions. That's okay. Toward the

end of your study, switch from practicing to "unanswered" questions to "incorrect" questions. If

there are not enough "incorrect" questions of a given type, simply choose "answered and

unanswered." Review is vital if you want to really learn the information. Our students who make

the largest score improvements often have answered every Magoosh question more than once.

Before we begin:

This 90-day plan is demands a manageable pace that must be followed diligently so things dont

get out of hand. Its designed to have you improve as much as you can improve in a three month

period. I have designed twelve weeks, assuming 1-2 hours for each of the five weekdays, and

one 4-5 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

days assignments take 1-2 hours, although times to complete them will vary for different

students

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 hours/night instead of 8 hours/night, you are depriving your brain

of one of its most powerful systems for learning and remembering. Caffeine and energy drinks

will keep you feeling awake if you dont get enough sleep, but they dont do bupkis to replace the

lost opportunity to encode more information into long term memory.

Week One, Day One

1) Go to http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/about/content/, and read about the content

of the GRE. Click on and read each sub-heading link.

2) In the Official Guide Guide,

Read Chapter 1, Introducing the GRE revised General Test

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Read Chapter 2, GRE Analytic Writing (just the descriptions of the question, not

all the sample material)

Read the introductory few pages of Chapter 3, GRE Verbal Reasoning

(everything up to the sample questions)

Read the introductory few pages of Chapter 4, GRE Quantitative Reasoning

(everything up to the sample questions)

3) In the Official Guide Guide, start skimming the GRE Math Review. Do the first two

exercise sets (Arithmetic & Algebra) and correct your work right away.

4) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: under Text Completion Overview, the first three videos in that

section

Week One, Day Two

1) Finish skimming the GRE Math Review in the Official Guide. Do the last two exercise

sets it contains (Geometry & Data Analysis) and check your work right away. If most of

that material is obvious to you, and most of the questions easy, then this plan is the right

plan for you. If more than a couple topics in the Math Review are difficult/confusing for

you, consider whether this plan is the best for you.

2) Download and start reading the Magoosh GRE eBook. Continue reading whenever you

have the time over the course of the next two weeks.


In Verbal: under Text Completion Overview, the last three videos in that

section

NOTE: As you finish each section of lesson videos, take the practice quiz at the

end of the set.

NOTE: I am not assigning you any math videos. You may want to watch a couple

of the strategy summary videos at the ends of sections, simply to verify that you

understand everything covered. As you feel you need brush up on anything

mathematical, feel free to dip into those videos.

4) In Magoosh, set up a practice session by clicking on the Practice link in the header. For

Math, check off all of the subjects that youre comfortable practicing, set the difficulty to

adaptive, the question pool to unanswered, the number of questions, the time to no

limit, and the mode to practice mode.

Narrow your practice to just that subjects youve studied so far. Youll widen the

scope of your practice over the course of your studies.

Do the following problems:

10 Multiple choice math questions

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Notice you are doing all topics from the get-go, 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.

For each Magoosh problem, after you submit your answer, on the next page which tells you

whether you were right or wrong, theres a video solution and below that a text summary. If you

got the question right, skim the text summary to verify 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.

Week One, Day Three


In Verbal: under Sentence Equivalence, the first three videos in that section

2) Download the Magoosh Complete Guide to GRE Vocabulary

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 of remembering a word, the more likely you are to remember it!

3) In Magoosh, set up a practice session by clicking on the Practice link in the header. For

Math, check off all of the subjects that youre comfortable practicing, set the difficulty to

adaptive, the question pool to unanswered, the number of questions, the time to no

limit, and the mode to practice mode.

Narrow your practice to just that subjects youve studied so far. Youll widen the

scope of your practice over the course of your studies.

Do the following problems:


Week One, Day Four


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In Verbal: under Sentence Equivalence, the last three videos in that section

2) In Magoosh, do the following problems


Week One, Day Five


In Verbal: under Reading Comprehension, the first four videos in that section

In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the first three videos in that section


10 Quantitative comparison math questions

5 Paragraph argument verbal questions

3 Reading comprehension verbal questions

Week One, Day Six


a) In AWA: all ten videos

b) In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the last six videos in that section

c) In Verbal: under Vocabulary, all ten videos

2) Today, you are going to write two essays, half an hour each. You will write two Issue

essays and two Argument essays.

a) For topics, go to the ETS GRE Issue Pool and the ETS GRE Argument Pool.

Figure out a way to pick topics at random (maybe you print the lists, cut it into

slips of paper, and choose some at random). Write the essays in a word

processing program.

b) Now that you have these essays, what do you do with them? If you have a friend

or mentor who is a gifted writer, see if they would read the essays for you and

critique them. If they are willing, you can show them the assessment criteria in

the Official Guide Guide, and ask them to follow it. If you cant convince anyone

else to read it, you may try posting them on some GRE forum, and see whether

an expert there will critique your essay. Failing either of these options, at least

you can set the essays aside, and in a couple days re-read them with the Official

Guides rubric beside you.

Week Two, Day One


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In Verbal: under Reading Comprehension, up to Difficult Passage I

In Math: under Data Interpretation, all four videos

(Optional) Manhattan GRE Volume 7: Reading Comprehension & Essays

Read Chapter 1

2) In Magooshs GRE Flashcards, master 20 words (a bit less than half a deck).

3) Read three good-sized articles from your chosen source of challenging reading (e.g. The

Economist, New York Times, etc.), noting grammatical structures. Look up, and create a

flash card for, any words you dont know.



3 Data interpretation questions

Week Two, Day Two


In Verbal: under Reading Comprehension, the last four videos in that section

2) (Optional) Manhattan GRE Volume 7: Reading Comprehension & Essays

Read Chapter 2, up to and including Principle #3. Take notes in your journal on

any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.

3) In Magooshs GRE Flashcards, master 20 more words (a bit less than half a deck).

4) Read three good-sized articles from your chosen source of challenging reading (e.g.

The Economist, New York Times, etc.), noting grammatical structures. Look up, and

create a flash card for, any words you dont know.


10 Text completion verbal questions

10 Sentence equivalence verbal questions

Week Two, Day Three


In Verbal: under Text Completion No Shifts, all four videos in that section


Read to the end of Chapter 2, but dont do the Problem Set today. Take notes in

your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.

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Spend 10-30 minutes reviewing previous decks.

Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up, and




Week Two, Day Four


In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shifts, the first three videos in that

section


Do the Chapter 2 Problem Set.. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take

notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.



4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up, and create

a flash card for, any words you dont know.




Week Two, Day Five


In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shifts, up to Multiple Shifts


Read Chapter 3 and do the Chapter 3 Problem Set. Read the full explanation of

the answers. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy

thats new to you.





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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.

2) For topics, go back to the topics from the ETS Issue Pool & Argument Pool. Again,

choose topics at random. Write the essays in Word.

3) When done, share the essays with a trusted friend/mentor, or post in the GMAT forum, or

set aside and critique it yourself with the Official Guide Guide rubric in a few days.

4) In the Official Guide:

do the Verbal Reasoning Practice Sets 1-6

do the Quantitative Reasoning Practice Sets 1-4

Treat this as a mock GRE. You might even combine it with the two essays, and

do consecutive batches 2-3 set without interruption, to simulate more effectively a

real GRE. Set a timer for the time limits. Here are the time limits to observe:

Official Guide Guide Verbal Reasoning Set 1 = 9 minutes






Official Guide Guide Quantitative Reasoning Set 1 = 22 minutes




After you are done, check all your answers. For any question you got right, skim

the explanation to verify that you got it right for the right reason. For any question

you got wrong, read the explanation thorough, taking notes in your journal on any

concepts you didnt understand and anything about the question format that

psyched you out. If you still cant make sense of the question after reading the

explanation, email us at Magoosh.

5) If you are doing much better than expected on Verbal, or much worse than expected on

Math, this might be a good time to consider whether you should switch to another version

of the 3-month plan (see explanations of them at the top).

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Week Three, Day One


In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shifts, the last three videos in that

section


Read Chapter 4 and do the Chapter 4 Problem Set. Read the full explanation of

the answers. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy

thats new to you.








Week Three, Day Two


In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the first three videos in that

section


Read Chapter 5, but dont do the Problem Set today. Take notes in your journal on

any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.









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Week Three, Day Three


In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the last two videos in that

section

In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the first video in that section


Do the Chapter 5 Problem Set. Read the full explanation of the answers. Read

Chapter 6. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy

thats new to you.








Week Three, Day Four


In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, up to One Sentence Triple

Blanks


Read Chapter 7 through the entire discussion of all the questions accompanying

the Model Short Passage Revisited. Take notes in your journal on any concept

or perspective or strategy thats new to you.








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Week Three, Day Five


In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the last three videos in that

section


In Ch. 7, read the Model Long Passage Revisited and the following pages of

questions & explanations pertaining to it. Take notes in your journal on any

concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.








Week Three, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to write four essays, half an hour each. You will write two Issue

essays and two Argument essays.

2) For topics, go back to the topics from the ETS Issue Pool & Argument Pool. Again,

choose topics at random. Write the essays in Word.

3) When done, share the essays with a trusted friend/mentor, or post ina GRE forum, or set

aside and critique it yourself with the Official Guide Guide rubric in a few days.

You have already seen all the Magoosh Verbal videos at this point. In a few weeks, we will watch

them a second time.

Week Four, Day One

1) (Optional) In the NOVAs GRE Prep Course book

Do Problem Set A Substitution & Problem Set B Substitution, Quantitative

comparisons. Check your answers as soon as you finish.

NOTE: The Math in the NOVAS book is very challenging, and therefore serves

well as practice for the mathematically ambitious students preparing for the GRE.

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The explanations in the NOVAS book are not that good, and there are flaws in the

answer key. If you get one of these questions wrong, check for any mistake, but if

you cant find one, you may be correct.

The problem sets throughout the book, denoted by capital letters, are in

alphabetical order and are found mostly at the ends of sections.

Also, do all the Nova questions timed. Count the number of problems in a problem

set, multiply that number by 1.75, and round to the nearest whole number: thats

the number of minutes you should give yourself for the problem set.


Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage A. When you are done, read thoroughly the

solutions. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy

thats new to you.










Week Four, Day Two


Do Problem Set C Substitution & Problem Set D Defined Functions. Check

your answers as soon as you finish.


Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage B. When you are done, read thoroughly the


thats new to you.





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Week Four, Day Three


Do Problem Set E Number Theory, #1-20. Check your answers as soon as you

finish.


Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage C. When you are done, read thoroughly the

solutions on. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy

thats new to you.







Week Four, Day Four


Do Problem Set E Number Theory, #21-39. Check your answers as soon as

you finish.


Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage D. When you are done, read thoroughly the


thats new to you.





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Week Four, Day Five


Do Problem Set F, Quantitative comparisons. Check your answers as soon as

you finish.


Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage E. When you are done, read thoroughly the


thats new to you.







5 Numeric entry math questions


Week Four, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the first hard copy 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 feedback, or critique later with the Official Guide Guide

rubric.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively

short breaks in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are

planning to bring to the real GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects

your work. Note how what you had for dinner the previous night and what you had

to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and concentration. Write any

observations in your journal.

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Week Five, Day One


Do Problem Set G, Hard Quantitative comparisons, Problem Set H Hard

Quantitative comparisons,, and Problem Set I Geometry #1-6.

Check your answers as soon as you finish.


Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage F. When you are done, read thoroughly the


thats new to you.








Week Five, Day Two


Do Problem Set I, Geometry, #7-31. Check your answers as soon as you

finish.


Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage G. When you are done, read thoroughly the


thats new to you.









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Week Five, Day Three



finish.


Start reading Chapter 9. Read up to and including the discussion of the first

question type, Strengthen the Conclusion. Take notes in your journal on any









Week Five, Day Four



finish.


Finish reading Chapter 9, but you dont have to do the Problem Set today. Take








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Week Five, Day Five



finish.


In Ch. 9, do ASP Practice Problems. Read the full explanation of the answers.

Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to

you.








Week Five, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take a full-length practice test. To start a test in Magoosh, click

the practice button at the top of your dashboard and select Practice Test. Take the

whole test, and then read & watch the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got

wrong.







Week Six, Day One


Do Problem Set J, Geometry, Problem Set K Coordinate Geometry, and

Problem Set L

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2) Elimination Strategies. Check your answers as soon as you finish.

(Optional) Manhattan GRE Volume 7: Reading Comprehension & Essays

3) Read approximately the first quarter of Chapter 10, a long chapter; stop at any convenient

stopping point. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats

new to you.









Week Six, Day Two


Do Problem Set M, Inequalities. Check your answers as soon as you finish.


Read approximately another quarter of Chapter 10, stopping at any convenient

stopping point. At this point, you should be about halfway through Ch. 10. Take










Week Six, Day Three


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Do Problem Set N, Fractions & Decimals. Check your answers as soon as you

finish.


Read approximately another quarter of Chapter 10, stopping at any convenient

stopping point. At this point, you should be about 75% through Ch. 10. Take








Week Six, Day Four


Do Problem Set O Equations. Check your answers as soon as you finish.


Finish reading Chapter 10. Take notes in your journal on any concept or

perspective or strategy thats new to you.








Week Six, Day Five


Do Problem Set P Averages, and #1-5 of Problem Set Q Ratios & Proportions.

Check your answers as soon as you finish.


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Read the introductory pages to Appendix A, everything before the vocab list. Skim

that vocab list. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or

strategy thats new to you.







5 Multiple answer math questions

Week Six, Day Six




wrong.







The beginning of this week is the halfway point in the three-month plan, so for the next three

weeks, you watch each of the Magoosh verbal videos a second time.

Week Seven, Day One


In Verbal: under Text Completion Overview, all six videos in that section

2) (Optional) Manhattan GRE Volume 8: Text Completion & Sentence Equivalence

Read Chapter 1.

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Week Seven, Day Two


In Verbal: under Sentence Equivalence, all six videos in that section


Start reading Chapter 2. Read through the section on Pivot Words. Do the

Drill: Sentence Analysis (Clues, Pivots, Fill-Ins). Read the full explanation of the

answers. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy

thats new to you.









Week Seven, Day Three


In Verbal: under Reading Compression, the first four videos in that section


In Ch. 2, read the section on Double and Triple Blank Text Completions, and do

the Drill: Sentence Analysis with Multiple Blanks. Read the full explanation of the


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thats new to you.







Week Seven, Day Four


In Verbal: under Reading Compression, up to Difficult Passages I


In Ch. 2, read the section Traps to Avoid During Elimination, and do the Drill:

Easy Questions. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take notes in your

journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.







Week Seven, Day Five


In Verbal: under Reading Compression, the last four videos in that section


In Ch. 2, do the Drill: Medium Questions. Read the full explanation of the


thats new to you.



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Week Seven, Day Six




wrong.







Week Eight, Day One


In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the first five videos in that section


In Ch. 2, do the Drill: Hard Questions. Read the full explanation of the answers.

Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to

you.










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Week Eight, Day Two


In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the last four videos in that section


Begin reading Chapter 3. Read the first few pages up to the first drill, and do the

Drill: Sentence Analysis. Read the full explanation of the answers. Then read the

sections up to the second drill, and do the Drill: Answer Choice Analysis. Read

the full explanation of the answers. Take notes in your journal on any concept or











Week Eight, Day Three


In Verbal: under Text Completion No Shift, all four videos in that section


In Ch. 3, read the final content sections, and do the Drill: 20 Easy Questions.

Read the full explanation of the answers. Take notes in your journal on any








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Week Eight, Day Four


In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shift, the first three videos in that

section


In Ch. 3, do the Drill: 20 Medium Questions. Read the full explanation of the


thats new to you.







Week Eight, Day Five


In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shift, up to Multiple Shifts


In Ch. 3, do the Drill: 20 Hard Questions. Read the full explanation of the


thats new to you.






6) 5 Multiple choice math questions

7) 10 Numeric entry math questions

8) 5 Paragraph argument verbal questions

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Week Eight, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the second hard copy practice GRE at the back of the

Official Guide.







Week Nine, Day One


In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shift, the last three videos in that

section


Read Chapter Four. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or

strategy thats new to you.

3) In Magooshs GRE Flashcards, master 20 more words

(a bit less than half a deck). Spend 10-30 minutes reviewing previous decks.






Week Nine, Day Two


In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the first three videos in that

section


Read Chapter 5. Make flash cards for any idioms that are unfamiliar to you, and

drill these with your vocabulary flash cards over the next few weeks. Do the Drill:

Decoding Idioms. Grade your work using the key, and go back to the chapter to

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figure out any you got wrong. Take notes in your journal on any concept or










Week Nine, Day Three


In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the last two videos in that

section

In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the first video in that section


In Appendix A, read through the Root List: Part I. Make flash cards for any roots

that are unfamiliar to you, and drill these with your vocabulary flash cards over the

next few weeks.



4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up, and create




Week Nine, Day Four


In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, up to One Sentence Triple

Blank

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In Appendix A, read the Part II: Prefixes. Make flashcards for any prefix roots

that are unfamiliar to you, and drill these with your vocabulary flash cards over the

next few weeks.







Week Nine, Day Five


In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the last three video in that

section


In Appendix A, read the Part III: Suffixes.Make flash cards for any suffix roots that

are unfamiliar to you, and drill these with your vocabulary flash cards over the next

few weeks.







Week Nine, Day Six

1) Today, you will take another practice test. You have three choices:

A practice test within Magoosh. At this point, you will likely see some repeat

questions because there may not be enough of a given question type (easy

geometry questions, for example) create test sections with correct proportions of

easy/medium/difficult questions, depending on your performance and how the

test adapts to you.

Repeat an official paper test from the back of the GRE Official Guide.

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Use another source if you have it. We highly recommend the 6 online practice

tests that come with any one of the Manhattan GRE book series.







At this point, you have seen all of the Magoosh verbal videos twice (except the Vocabulary

videos watch them again as need be, but you probably have the hang of learning vocab by

this point!).

Week Ten, Day One


Do Problem Set Q, Ratios & Proportions, #6-30. Check your answers as soon

as you finish.

2) (Optional) Manhattan GRE re-read any section and redo any drill/test in the Manhattan

GRE books.

In Magooshs GRE Flashcards, master 20 more words (a bit less than half a

deck). Spend 10-30 minutes reviewing previous decks.






Week Ten, Day Two


Do Problem Set R, Exponents & Roots and Problem Set S, Factoring. Check

your answers as soon as you finish.

2) (Optional) Manhattan GRE

Re-read any section and redo any drill/test in the Manhattan GRE books.

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Week Ten, Day Three


Do Problem Set T, Algebraic Expressions and #1-11 of Problem Set U,

Percents. Check your answers as soon as you finish.











Week Ten, Day Four


Do Problem Set U, Percents, #12-31. Check your answers as soon as you

finish.



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Week Ten, Day Five


Do Problem Set V, Graphs. Check your answers as soon as you finish.









Week Ten, Day Six

1) Today, you will take another practice test. You have three choices:

A practice test within Magoosh. At this point, you will likely see some repeat

questions because there may not be enough of a given question type (easy

geometry questions, for example) create test sections with correct proportions of

easy/medium/difficult questions, depending on your performance and how the

test adapts to you.

Repeat an official paper test from the back of the GRE Official Guide.

Use another source if you have it. We highly recommend the 6 online practice

tests that come with any one of the Manhattan GRE book series.







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Week Eleven, Day One


Do #1-22 of Problem Set W, Word Problems. Check your answers as soon as

you finish.










Week Eleven, Day Two


Do Problem Set W, Word Problems, #23-32 and Problem Set X, Sequences

& Series. Check your answers as soon as you finish.










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Week Eleven, Day Three


Do Problem Set Y, Counting. Check your answers as soon as you finish.










Week Eleven, Day Four


Do Problem Set Z, Probability & Statistics. Check your answers as soon as you

finish.










Week Eleven, Day Five


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Do #1-22 of Problem Set AA, Permutations & Combinations. Check your

answers as soon as you finish.









Week Eleven, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the first practice GRE available through the GRE

PowerPrep software.







Week Twelve, Day One


Do Problem Set AA, Permutations & Combinations, #23-43. Check your

answers as soon as you finish.



3) In Magooshs GRE Flashcards, spend 30 minutes reviewing previous decks.






10 Multiple answer math questions

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Week Twelve, Day Two


Do Problem Set BB, Functions. Check your answers as soon as you finish.










Week Twelve, Day Three


Do Problem Set CC, Miscellaneous Problems. Check your answers as soon

as you finish.










Week Twelve, Day Four


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Do the Diagnostic/Review Test, #1-15. Check your answers as soon as you

finish.


Watch any 3-4 videos for an additional time









Week Twelve, Day Five


Do the Diagnostic/Review Test, #16-30. Check your answers as soon as you

finish.


Watch any 3-4 videos for an additional time








10 Numeric entry math questions

Week Twelve, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the second practice GRE available through the GRE

PowerPrep software.

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At the end, copy the essays you wrote into a Word doc, and as before, these you

will share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for

feedback, or critique later with the Official Guide Guide rubric.

Concentrated Review

1) At this point, if you have been following the schedule, you should have done every

question in both Magoosh at least once. For whatever days remain before the test, keep

up work on GRE math and verbal. Some suggestions for what to do:

2) Through selecting question type & difficulty on the Dashboard, do Magoosh problems

over again, and see how you do a second time.

3) Keep watching for an additional time 3-4 Magoosh lesson videos as needed, on

whatever topics you feel you need to review

4) Keep reading your challenging material, to build vocabulary and acclimate your ear to

eloquent style.

5) Keep drilling your vocab cards.

6) (Optional) As needed, re-read any section of the Manhattan GRE books or re-do any

problems from the NOVAS book.

Day before the test:

1) No GRE preparation all day

2) Eat a large, healthy, leisurely dinner no alcohol!

3) Go to bed earlier than usual.

Day of test:

1) ABSOLUTELY NO LAST MINUTE GRE PREPARATION!

2) Eat a large breakfast, full of protein

3) Do relaxing, fun activities to pass time until the test

Bring to the test:

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1) A liter of water

2) Healthy energy-packed snacks (nuts, protein bar, etc.)

3) On breaks, make sure to get up, move & stretch moving & stretching the large

muscles of the body (legs & torso) will get oxygen flowing throughout, which will help

keep you awake and keep you thinking clearly.

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