This Sections Contains a course specifically designed to help you build your vocabulary for the verbal section of the GRE exam.

 

• GRE Sentence Completion
• GRE Analogies
• GRE Antonyms
• GRE Reading Comprehension
• GRE Writing Section

 

Preparing for the GRE is a grueling ordeal where you will need to spend hours preparing for vocabulary and grammar problems. GRE (Graduate Record Examination) is part of a group of tests that examine graduate school hopefuls for the basics of math, grammar, and writing.

 

The GRE is calculated on a scale from 400 to1600. For each section, quantitative and verbal, there is a possibility of 800 points. Each test starts the examinee off with 800 points, and as questions are answered incorrectly, you lose part of your score. It is impossible to get lower than 200 points on the GRE, but most graduate schools require at least 1000 points to enter their program.

 

The GRE also uses computerized ways of increase the difficulty of each question the student gets correct. In other words, if you get a correct answer, the testing computer will increase the difficulty of the next question. The process continues until you answer an answer incorrectly, and the next question is reset back to an easier level question and continues once again.

 

There are three parts that make up the GRE. The quantitative section tests the students ability to use basic math such as algebra, geometry, analytics, and simple math functions to calculate and answer mathematical problems. This section is not very difficult for science or math majors or any other undergraduates who use math skills every day in class.

 

The GRE makes up three parts:

• Verbal
• Quantitative
• Writing

 

The math section of the GRE is formulated into twenty eight questions that need to be answered in forty five minutes. It covers popular mathematical calculations that students have learned in their basic math classes throughout their undergraduate term in college.

 

The math section covers the following skills:

• Basic math and terms
• Mathematical concepts
• Quantitative reasoning
• Problem solving
• Quantitative comparisons

 

Each part of the math section will test the students analytical skills. The main math categories include basic math structures and the priorities to calculate a problem. Basic algebra is also included in this sections such as binomials and polynomials. Finally, geometry and calculating angles, lengths, and cube structures is a part of the test. Overall the math section is basic especially those who have advanced math classes within their majors. Another advantage is that the GRE examination procedures do not allow for a calculator, so all numbers are simple and calculations do not get very complex.

 

Where most math experts excel, they can easily fail in the vocabulary section of the GRE. The verbal section is not an area that is unlike any other standardized test for grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and analytically choosing proper word structures. The verbal section tests students abilities to view words, or pairs of words, in an analytical manner and evaluate them to answer the question properly.

 

The student will need to know the following types of grammar rules:

• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Analytical reading
• Analogies
• Sentence structure
• Punctuation
• Analytical reasoning
• Reading comprehension

 

The test in the verbal section of the GRE consists of thirty questions that need to be completed in thirty minutes. The average layout of the verbal part of the test asks the following:

 

• 7 Sentence completions
• 7 Analogies
• 8 Antonyms
• 8 Reading comprehension

 

Each one of these sections will test the students vocabulary mostly and their ability to incorporate the vocabulary into an analytic style. The GRE is not a test where students can simply memorize words and expect to receive a high grade. Rather, students will need to have true analytical reasoning and an understanding of vocabulary to be able to reason through each question.