How to prepare for the vocab in the gres?

[Darien]

The past several years in college and in high school have taught me something: flash cards don't work for me. I've never found a really good way to study vocabulary, so it's pretty crappy.

Does anyone here have any methods they'd like to share?

Thanks.

 

[Darien]

a topic on school-related things and no reply. odd for ATOT. there has to be at least 1 person here who's in graduate school...

 

[SirPsycho]

Well, I'm not in graduate school, but when my wife was applying, she knew she would have to take the GRE, so I bought her a copy of Verbal Advantage. I think I paid about $200-250 for it (they were running a special at the time), but it helped tremendously. She had taken the GRE once before, and her score after using it was about 100 points higher. That's a really big difference. I think it's worth it in the long run. I've seen it many times on Ebay in the $150-200 range. She used the Complete Edition, which is all ten levels. You can also buy the two Success Editions, each one of which is half of the Complete Edition, but it's cheaper to buy the Complete instead of the two separate halves.

 

[touchmyichi]

yeah I feel you man, I'm having the same problem for SAT

 

[DaWhim]

use index cards is the fastest for me. one side with a word, the definition on behind.

I believe that if you've read all the Dickson's, you will get 800 for SAT verbal.

 

[Darien]

bump. thanks guys 🙂

 

[Darien]

bump

 

[Kipper]

Solution 1: read LOTS of very high-profile, complex books.
Solution 2: get a bunch of flash cards, write down words on them, memorize.
Solution 3: get a review book ($20?)

 

[Darien]

I'm reading a few books

Flash cards don't work for me

Review books that list vocab don't mention ways of memorizing the words and their meanings. I have one, and it's pretty decent for strategies, but not for memorizing words 🙁

 

[akodi]

just study the roots which can be found in the back of a kaplan or any other gre book.

 

[civad]

Make audiotapes of the wordlists. It took me about four 90-minute tapes for all 22 (?) wordlists.

And you can listen to them while cooking / watching pr0n / etc....

and I got an excellent verbal score.

Index cards DO help, but only to an extent in my case.

 

[konichiwa]

Find a big wordlist and do 5 words a day. Learn those words well and try and use them throughout the day. Then at the end of each week go back and review all the words you did for that week.

 

[SZLiao214]

Use a bunch flash cards with the above mentioned format. But remember to use chunking. Chunking is where you learn 4-5 words at a time. Cycle through them reading the definition, then try to say the definition of the words. Move on to the next set and repeat. After 4-5 times go through that stack and see if you still remember the words. Youll be suprised how fast you will learn the words. For my english class we were forced to learn list of 80 every 2 weeks. I was able to do it in about 30 minutes. Good luck.

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: civad
Make audiotapes of the wordlists. It took me about four 90-minute tapes for all 22 (?) wordlists.

And you can listen to them while cooking / watching pr0n / etc....

and I got an excellent verbal score.

Index cards DO help, but only to an extent in my case.

I wonder how that went... 😉

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
use index cards is the fastest for me. one side with a word, the definition on behind.

I believe that if you've read all the Dickson's, you will get 800 for SAT verbal.

Is that a typo or can you clarify? Just wondering heh.

 

[sniperruff]

why don't you start by shutting down your computer and start some serious cramming?

 

[Savij]

I can't use flash cards either. I usually write and rewrite the words and definitions till I have it down. For long lists of words start a few weeks early and make sure to go over all of the words from the previous days before you start with a new set.

1. Write the words in one column and the definitions in another column
2. Cover (all) the definitions with a second sheet of paper and go through the list, checking as you go, while making a mark next to the words you don't know correctly.
3. Rewrite the words that you didn't know along with their definitions on a third (fourth, fifth, sixth...)sheet of paper
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until done.