10-High-Voltage Techniques to increase your GRE Score!
Do you know about the GRE Aerobics? Aerobics that will make you fit to take the exam? Are you the one that really wants an amazing score in GRE? Or is it that you fall under the category of day dreamers who keep dreaming and finally are found disappointed with a below average score? You need to really work-out for GRE!
Well, I guess you all belong to the group 1. Underneath are enumerated some proven high-voltage techniques that will help you escalate your performance in GRE drastically.
Technique no 1: Hey do you all know the in and out of GRE exam? The sections, the type of questions, the scoring pattern and all. Ahem! I guess you are rather depending on some second hand information. Do some work, pull up your socks, go out there and know the exam you are taking. Knowing alone is not important, knowing it thoroughly is.
Technique no 2: Do you have great career goals and ambitions? Are you passionate about becoming highly successful as a professional? Do you want to study in one of the best Universities of the world? A University that will give you an edge over others? A name that shimmers in your Resume?? Then what are you waiting for? Become passionate about GRE! In simpler words fall deeply in love with it!!
Technique no 3: You have now gotten into the right gear. It’s now the right time for you to know the pros and cons of the exam. It is simple. Just shut yourself from the world for a while. Consider a few GRE Model Papers. Scan, skim one paper thoroughly.
Analyze your strengths and weaknesses. After jotting down your strengths and weaknesses, concentrate more on your negatives. I will now whisper a secret mantra: ‘Convert all your weaknesses into strengths’. Success will be yours.
Technique no 4: Practice, practice and practice! This alone will see you navigate through the ocean of tasks effortlessly. Please do not wait for miracles to happen. They will not! Unless you practice a lot many papers and get a hang of GRE, you will never be able to get a decent score.
Technique no 5: We all know GRE is a Computer Adaptive Test. Although there are a few paper based tests conducted around the world in some centers, majority of the student community go for the Computer based GRE.
Get used to working on the keyboard. Practicing this is equally important. See for yourself how a Computer Adaptive Test works. If you do not do this and appear for the exam for the first time, you will have to blame yourself for many things and for nothing!
Technique no 6: Have faith in yourself only then can you crack GRE. If you constantly fall a prey to apprehensions and worries you will gain nothing. Positive thinking gives you the necessary impetus to pass through the examination both mellifluously and successfully.
Technique no 7: Don’t become an island. This is very very important. Isolated preparation will never make you realize where you stand in the competition. It is very important to form study groups and discuss all the matters pertaining to the exam. In fact brainstorm! This way you might sometimes stop by information that is immensely useful to you. Make some study groups and make it a point to interact with them at least once a week!
Technique no 8: Don’t feel shy. Not knowing something is not a sin. Get your doubts clarified by experts in the subject. Holding a doubt could be disastrous for your GRE preparation. Have it clarified then and there.
Technique no 9: Give yourself some effective auto-suggestions. Well…like: I am confident, I take GRE in my stride, I get a wonderful score in GRE and so on. Give yourself these suggestions at least until the day you take GRE. Become both confident and optimistic by all means. You can see the results for yourself!
Technique no 10: Do some intelligent guessing. Yes, sometimes despite all the diligent effort and enterprise, you may not get an answer to a specific question. In a Computer Adaptive Test you cannot skip a specific question and go to the next one. You cannot go back too.
So if you find yourself stuck, do some intelligent guess work. In a catch-22 like this, you can in the verbal segment think perhaps about similar sounding words, roots, prefixes and suffixes in order to guess the meaning of a particular word.
I am sure practicing these techniques and bearing them in mind all the time until you appear for GRE will give you rich results. If you know some more techniques please do share with us. In fact you can put them all here. You can also post some effective learning techniques you follow in our GRE Discussion Forum.
It is an interactive, learning forum exclusively designed for diligent students like you. Register now and start posting all your doubts, experiences there. I am sure we all will get to gain some rich knowledge.
Wishing you success!!
Anu Veluri
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These suggestions realy help me score high in GRE
Yes Neetu, when are u planning to take GRE?
Sir i m a B.Pharm final year student and wanna crack GRE with good rankings,but i m confused with how to prepare and remember the word list provided to me by your word list.com.Kindly help me remembering those.
Hi Uddhav, u first need to get rid of any kind of confusion..and as far as helping you remeber the words we can suggest u techniques..the actual hard work has to be put in by u and u only..:-)..Uddhav there are many blogs on the site commenting on GRE learning techniques..pls run through them..I am sure it will be of gr8 help ofr diligent students like you..
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These techniques are very motivating. Thank you sir.
I am sharing a technique that I use with words.
I learn words with my mom, I read out the words to her and convert them in my mothertongue to explain the true meaning of the words and often try relating them to qualities of people we both know. This way I tend to spend some more time on words and mom and me both remember the words better.
I hope this suggestion can be of help to all.
Yup, its a good form and good strategies are documented here, how small they seem the better result they can deliver.
One more thing which I experienced way back when I appeared in my IIT JEE preliminary round.
I used to play a video game car race, the more I discovered I am able to concentrate the more I realized I am better performing in my mock tests, obviously i cleared preliminary although preparation was not that good.
Mantra: If you want to deliver what ever you have prepared, acquire meditation by any means either through sports games, direct meditation using yoga techniques:
As great Vivekananda has said: “If you have concentration you can crush and collapse even a great mountain”
Cheers!
Gr8..that’s how it works…hey why dont u put this technique on the forum…i tell u scores of students will be benefited…share with us some more techniques..
nice suggestions iam sure that practice and analysing the errors do help a lot and makes gre more easier…………rather than spending entire time on learning
Thanks Shashidhar, in fact there are many other blogs which suggest effective techniques for cracking GRE..do read them all..and yes Shashidhar I wish you join forum too..there are many worthwhile discussions going on their and ur comments and participation will only add..:-)
Regards,
hey i m confused wht i have to prepare for gre or upsc (ias). suggest me
Hi Vishad, this is a very complicated question..u shud choose something that u are passionate about..