The verbal section on the GRE can be a thorn in the side of many a test taker. But it does not have to be. Unlike the GMAT, the GRE has a very set syllabus that has boundaries of what can and cannot be asked.
This implies that there is a set amount of knowledge that you will need to learn in order to ace the Verbal section on the GRE.
The GRE Verbal Section consists of basically 3 types of questions:
1. Vocabulary – Text Completion, Sentence Equivalence
2. Critical Reasoning
3. Reading Comprehension
Out of these 3 categories, the only one that requires you to put in effort to learn is the vocabulary section. This consists of approximately 4000 words that you need to know. A native English speaker is bound to know at least 1500-2000 words.
If you do not know that many words, it is best that you sign up for GRE classes.
If you do know at least 1500-2000 words then it should take you only about 4-6 weeks to learn the remaining words as most of them are synonyms of words that we already know and use regularly.
As for the other two sections, they test your logical and reasoning ability. The best approach to this would be to practice as many lateral thinking problems as possible. Even practicing some of the free GMAT resources can help as the difficulty level of similar questions on the GMAT is higher than the GRE counterparts.
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