HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR VERBAL SCORE

GRE: Mission Verbal

Arafat RahmanFaculty

GRE Center (Lalmatia)

Verbal Section

Text Completion 1 blank question 2 blank question 3 blank question

Sentence EquivalenceReading Comprehension

MCQ single answers MCQ multiple answers Select sentence in the passage

Text Completion (TC)

Sentence Equivalence (SE)

How to ace in TC & SE?

Think like Sherlock!

Reading Comprehension (RC)

How to Approach a Passage?

How to Prepare for Verbal?

VocabularyHow many words are enough?

Deliberate Practice TC+SE (Bigbook 1) RC (Bigbook, Aristotle 99)

Reading for funCritical Reading

Vocabulary

Many approaches Alphabetically word list (Word Smart, Audio GRE) Word with root (Word Power Made Easy) Mixed Group (Vocabuilder, Major Tests) High Frequency Words (Barrons 300 + 800, Magoosh

300) In Passage (1100 Words You Need to Know) Smartphone App

Explore everything and select one.

Vocabulary (Cont.)

Strategy 3000 words? 1500 words with revision?

Follow two books/lists. 1st for learning, 2nd one for revison

Passive Preparation

Read many books! Read for speed Read for word-learning Read for comprehension Don’t Check dictionary, guess.

Critical Reading

Read to understand deeply Check dictionary Rephrase Question!

Some Recourses: Aeon Magazine (http://aeon.co/magazine) NY Times Op-Ed (http://www.nytimes.com/) Arts & Letters Daily (http://www.aldaily.com/) The Economist (http://economist.com/)

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