Cracking GRE @ ease

Is your score par 1300, please hang on here and have fun at any cool site.  Well pals I just got 1230 in my GRE (Graduate Record Examination) which is believed  to be an average score. It's easy scoring this genuinely average score. I here write for guys like me who are satisfied to drive it above 1250*

Imagine if you where amidst of thedesert that has nothing to offer excepting the Water( analogous to Gre, in our case) . The word GRE is never fascinating , it Sucks, its more like a 170$'s burden on your mind or body. I indicate the process i followed to manage with an average score with the loop holes.  First the things that come up as and when you get your date. :) 

The loop holes: (internal and external):

First point i would emphasize is on the Question over preparation: the day from which you picked the date, your GRE test date spreads like a conflagration(great fire). The first few days goes in perceiving what exactly GRE means, but by then a question bumps straight on your face, whenever you cross someone

->Hey howz your preparation going?. A Big thud down the heart, i wonder why the heck people keep asking it? I personally went through this phase where-in folks who aren't interested in what GRE is even ask this Question. (It's easy to answer 'em but it's tough to answer people who know :) ) You stammer for a few days answering this question.  
here comes the other question that irks our senses,

-> How many words are you up with: My blood used to boil when some-one asks it. We struggle at home bunking those non-sensible classes to make some sense out of the never-ending list of words  and here comes the hero asking on our status. I would've loved to  shout like the ruffled dog in the picture, but had to smile it off. 

->  My nephew, my close friend, my inter friend's got a sexy score : Well here come's braggarts category of people, now that you are into the duty of dirtying your hands with the word-lists that can never be listed, a few guys try either provocatively or by chance or by ignorance (they say its a bliss , but it's not for us). they start mentioning someone who either scored extremely (positive or negative nevertheless). oh dear your B.P. starts going up and down accordingly, remember one thing buds: 

                                 If someone is getting a low score, they prefer it blaming on the paper ( a human instinct, i did it when i was in the intermediate (aieee), i don't blame 'em). I agree that they could have got the toughest paper on the cards but dude never get deterred with these Wind-blown-news. Let the breeze pass you, but let it not leave an impact on you.  And some guy could get 1400 at ease, even you can but you don't dream you will on listening such success stories. 
Success stories are meant just to motivate but not place yourself in 'em. 

           These are an day-to day loop holes you get once you start preparing and let the world know that you are doing it (no matter how much you endeavor to keep it secret, it'll be leaked). I'd now introduce to my two month system which worked for me. I couldn't cut it down ( sorry for that)
                                           
                  First Month:

• Firstly Get yourself comfortable to read for about two hours a day ( you can increase it, if you decrease the days of prep). Just two hours!
• Now that you are prepared, download the GRE BIBLE software, which is just 5mb from here: Gre Bible 
• Okay pals, this is one of the best software that jumbles all the words into 100 word lists, each having 30 words. You don't find all A's together or all B's together like in case of barons.  It clearly mentions that to read 5 word lists a day, so you are done with the word lists in 20 days! Amazing! 
• It has various games related to the word list you study like

1. Multiple choices
2. Reverse Multiple choice (meaning is given, you've to select the word)
3.  Matching (two types)

• FLIP CARDS (this is the most important exercise) .

  So do these as many as you can. Remembering the words is definitely not that tough.  Let's see an example:   Braggadocio:  a boastful person. 

Look for what you know in the word? Bragg + a+ doc+... doc( a doctor) is the one who brags( a braggart is a boaster) so guys...do this division and remember as much as you can. 

Do's and Don'ts in these 20-30 days of learning: 

•  Do Memorize the words whenver you see them
• Do Revision, revision , revision and revision. Do revision with the flip cards( takes 1 minute for a word lists, so in total-100 minutes for all the 3000 words dear! 
• In case you find reading all of them impossible, this site offers the videos of many words related to GRE, haffun here: word ahead
• Don't ever relent in the last few days of your preparation.
• Never read on the day just before the  test.
• Don't overload with the words.
• Please don't neglect the Barrons sample examples of analogies and Sentence completions. 
• Do take rest for a day or two when frustrated but not more than that. Value the time and it values you!  

  It all takes you a month for the words, don't doubt about the maths( if you are particularly week in it,then go for any good book and read the summary, practice Quant. I feel guys from B.tech find it easy when it comes to math!)  

Second Month:

                            you are done with the first month, it passed off with the words and their implementations. Now here comes the test of your caliber and your words. Start writing the tests from day one of the second month. 

Write as many tests as you can, the following are recommended: 
-> Princeton's review test(4)
-> Kaplan's GRE test(8)
-> 800 Tests ( both quant and verbal are available)(15)
-> Power prep  (very similar to GRE)(6)
-> CAT tests in GRE Bible(10)

->Online mini tests (as many as you can) 
->Solve the Big book, if you feel like


                            One active forum that i would highly recommend is this forum: test magic-gre  (You need to register here) .  It will definitely be the most helpful one, here you find students from all over the world discussing GRE. Be active in the community and you can learn on how to move on with the analogies without any one to teach. 
Make a check list: 

          Make a check list for yourself and keep checking on your status of improvement. I bet you'd improve to the maximum. Make sure you are not repeating your mistakes. 
Methods to Revise your vocabulary:  
-> here is dr. raju's link of sessions, where in words are divided based on their groups: dr. rajus
-> i do have a copy of categories, which i'll upload as soon as possible, where in all the words are divided into categories and the words that belong to it are listed in it. If you know one word in it then you'd probably remember the other few words. 

Do's and Don'ts for the exam:

•  Stop reading a day before the exam
• don't waste your last few days( 15), they are precious as gold
• Please don't neglect AWA, it does play an important role in your selection at the universities in USA.
• No tension please, this will ruin your exam. It did ruin my pa's exams. so do not get tensed. 
• Sleep the night before exam with no feeling of GRE.
• Never think of those 170$'s :) 

All the best guys! 

For more questions or materials or info(on anything) mail me :

skarthikc@gmail.com