Verbal Section

[dddannie6]

Hi,

I am having a really hard time with the verbal section of this exam, specifically sentence equivalence and text completion. I have about 7 weeks till test date and I want to get into the 80 to 85 percentile. How do I develop a good way to tackling this section down.

I have taken your course and I am just trying to practice these concepts on my own (very difficult since I do not know what I am doing.) What seems to be my problem is that I cannot understand the meaning of the sentence. I miss read the clues and I get the rhetoric wrong making me answering the question partially or completely wrong when there is more than one blank.

I am also trying to find a way of reading GRE-like material on a day to day basis and can't seem to find good fits to carry around my nook. Any suggestions on a good study route, something I could do everyday to develop this skill other than trying to drill in vocabulary words.

I am FREAKING OUT!


Thanks!
D

[tommywallach]

Hey D,

This question has been answered many, many times on the forum already, so I encourage you to look through all of that.

In short, there is no easy answer for what is effectively "How do I get better at verbal?" If there were, there'd be no need for a course like ours, or big fat books full of new techniques and lessons. If you're still struggling, you haven't internalized a) the content, b) the techniques, or c) both.

I can't tell you which of those is your problem, but I can tell you that there is no magic bullet. Go through all the books again. Go through all the practice tests again. Make sure you are internalizing new METHODS for dealing with questions, as opposed to viewing every question as a new isolated event that has nothing to do with the questions you've seen before.

Hope that helps!

-t