2 Week Study Plan, First Week

Plan for the Week

During the first of the two weeks, you should plan to become familiar with all the components of the GRE test. This includes not only going over all of the tutorials, but also involves the use of the practice questions that are offered by MyGRETutor.com. In terms of vocabulary, you should utilize the vocabulary section of MyGRETutor.com every day; not as a means to memorize many words, but as a way for you to gain exposure to the type of words that you'll expect to see on the GRE. Keep in mind that the vocabulary tutor in MyGRETutor.com monitors your progress and shows you those words that match your skill level, which is exactly what happens on the real test.

You'll need to spend at least 5 days in preparing for the GRE, spending 2 hours each day, for a total of 10 hours. Here is a sample plan:

• Day 1: Become familiar with the format and features of the GRE, including timing tactics, adaptive testing, scoring and section order. These and other relevant topics are all discussed in the tutorials section of MyGRETutor.com. Spend approximately 1 hour in learning the format of the GRE. Next, go over each of the Arithmetic and Algebra sections of the tutorials, which should take you upwards of 1 hour. Finally, spend 10 minutes or so reviewing some of the vocabulary words in the vocabulary section of MyGRETutor.com. Go through a handful of words to get a feel of the difficulty level that you'll experience on the real GRE.
• Day 2: Go over the Geometry, Data Analysis and Quantitative Comparison tutorials sections, and do some of the practice questions in each of the four math areas. Don't do all of the practice questions, because you'll have time in week 2 to finish them. Spend about 1 hour on this activity. Also, start reviewing the tutorials sections that pertain to the verbal part of the GRE, including the sentence completion and reading comprehension tutorials. Likewise do some of the accompanying practice questions. This, too, should take you about 1 hour.
• Day 3: Start and finish the tutorials sections on Analogies and Antonyms, and again do some of the practice questions. At the same time, continue to do some of the practice math questions, too. Spend approximately 1 hour doing these events. Finally, go over the essay tutorials sections, and conclude the day with again visiting the vocabulary section of MyGRETutor.com. Continue to leisurely view more and more vocabulary words.
• Day 4: Take a full-length practice test, including the essays. Don't skip the essay part, and take the entire test in one sitting! By now you should be familiar with the format of the exam, so now you want to see exactly what it feels like. It's very important that you take the whole test in one sitting, so prepare to spend approximately 3 hours taking the practice exam. After the test, relax!
• Day 5: Review each of the section of the practice test. If you click on the "Show analysis" button in the practice testS section of the test that you completed, you'll be able to view the questions that you saw and their correct answers. Go over all of the verbal and math questions, and see why you may have made errors or why you may have gotten confused. Based on how you did on your practice test, read those sections in the tutorials page that are most relevant. Again, finish by looking at some new vocabulary words in the vocabulary section of MyGRETutor.com.

Week Study Plan for Math Component of GRE

During the course of the week, you'll have ample time to go over all of the tutorials sections that pertain to the math part of the GRE. For the math component of the GRE, you will need to know or at least be familiar with the following:

• Simple arithmetic such as addition, subtraction and multiplication.
• Exponents and percentages.
• Be able to compute simple probabilities and execute counting problems.
• Be proficient with simple algebra, including equations and inequalities.
• Be familiar with Geometry, including solid geometry, lines and angles, parallel lines, as well as volumes.

More importantly, study and become familiar with the actual types of questions that you may see on the test, which include problem solving, graphs, and quantitative analysis. The quantitative analysis section, especially, may seem a bit odd at first, but once you study for just a little while, you'll realize that the math section is actually rather straight-forward.

Week Study Plan for Verbal Component of GRE

Here are the four main question types for the verbal component of the GRE:

• Sentence completion: You'll be given a sentence with a missing word or with a pair of missing words, along with 5 choices for the blanks, and you'll need to select that choice that BEST fits the sentence.
• Analogies: You'll be required to determine the relationship between two given words, and you'll choose from among 5 answer choices that pair of words that exhibits the same relationship as do the given words.
• Reading comprehension: This is straight forward; you'll be given a reading passage, ranging in length from one paragraph to many paragraphs, and you'll be given a question which will ask you to directly draw from, infer from, or to analyze the structure of style of the passage.
• Antonyms: You'll be given a word in all capital letters, and then you'll be given 5 answer choice; you goal is to select that word from the choices that is most nearly the opposite in meaning to the provided word.

Become familiar with all of these, especially with the analogy question format. The sentence completion, reading comprehension, and antonym sections are much more straight-forward than the analogy section, which requires quite a bit of practice if you want to do well. As with the math section, do a fair share of verbal practice questions. These questions should help to solidify the concepts that you learn in the tutorials section.

Week Study Plan for Essay Component of GRE

As is the case in the one week plan, there is very little that you can do to prepare for the essay section if you only have two weeks of time before your test. If you are a good writer, then you should do okay. If you haven't written in a long time, then we recommend that you at least go over the Essay tutorial section for ideas on brainstorming and to get a sense of what the readers of the essay are looking for. There are two essays that you'll be asked to write:

• Issue Essay: You are given two essay topics, from which you choose one, and you are given 45 minutes to analyze the issues pertaining to the topic.
• Argument Essay: You have no choice for the essay topic, but instead are given a topic, and you are alotted 30 minutes to critique the effectiveness of the provided statement.

Be sure to read the tutorials section that discusses the essays. There you will find tricks and suggestions on how you can structure, analyze, plan, and execute your essays, concepts which should help you to improve your score.