Hello I am Apurva welcome back to WeDesified if you are someone who is going to give GRE or
planning for GRE then you must watch this video we are going to discuss many useful tips and tricks
these tips are from the experience of many of our students and will definitely increase your
score at least by 10 marks so pay enough attention carefully note down and follow these so let's get
started but before that make sure to subscribe to our Channel and also hit the bell icon so
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according to the deadlines of your admission once you finalize on that then the next step is
GRE there are some programs or universities that do not require GRE for admission but most of the
universities do require so what is a good time to give GRE well at least two months prior to your
admission deadlines is a good thing because then you will have enough time to work on your SOP lor
resume and other things you will also have to keep in mind that the scholarship deadlines would be
ahead of the admission deadlines so it is better to give GRE keeping all these things in mind the
first step is getting into the right mindset there are so many Facebook and whatsapp groups with lots
of students who are also planning to give GRE you can join them and get both motivation and
help also we suggest that first you should book your GRE date with some buffer period because
otherwise we'll keep postponing it and believe me we all tend to do that tip number one understand
the GRE scoring algorithm you already must be aware of the GRE format and that you will score a
minimum of 130 each in warble and quant no matter what but that doesn't mean that the 40 questions
in the verb you'll encounter a 1 mark each so that is why it is very important to understand
how GRE scoring algorithm works we have provided a link in the description box that explains the CRA
scoring algorithm so make sure you check that out tip number to give a mock test before you start
your GRE prep this step is very important but not many people do this it is important because
it will help you to understand your strengths and weaknesses so that you can focus more on your weak
areas during your preparation which will help you to improve your score otherwise you will be
wasting your valuable time on the things that you are already good at also make sure to start your
preparation with the ETS official guide since it is like the Bible of GRE start your preparation
with it and keep tracking your progress regularly you can get other books like Manhattan or Kaplan
if you need more resources but don't get everything and start all at once just because
your friends have it giving a mock test early in the prep period will help you to understand
where you ad and water target is once a target is set research for colleges in the range of plus or
minus five marks like if your target is 310 search for universities in the range of 3 not 5 to 315
and understand the requirements because programs like engineering and Sciences require more corn
score while arts and behavioral sciences require more verbal score so understand what your program
requirements are and the university cut office so let's move on to the verbal section tip number 3
use mnemonics to memorize vocab and their meanings the major part of the GRE verbal score depends on
the vocabulary the more words you know the more you can score but GRE vocabulary is difficult
because they are not commonly used especially in countries like India to build your vocabulary
you can cultivate reading habits like books or newspaper in general but that's like a long term
process instead you can use mnemonics as a smart trick to score on your verbal if you come across a
word difficult for you to memorize you can map it either to a word you already know not necessarily
in English language or make a pattern of words or ideas that will help you to remember the word and
its meaning for example the word ablution means the ritual washing of a priests hand or a sacred
vessel now this can be memorized by associating ablution with lotion you can form a sentence like
the priest is washing his hands with lotion simple right you can check the link in the description
box to know more about mnemonics and how you can use them there are like thousands of words you
can learn for GRE and it is practically impossible to learn all the words in short period but you can
easily find high frequency GRE words that would be in few hundreds you can start with them and build
your work up if you want our list of frequent GRE words then you can contact us either on
Facebook or Instagram along with knowing the words reading comprehensions are also an important part
that brings to our tip number 4 skim through the passages to get the gist when you start with your
reading comprehension passages do not spend more time understanding every sentence of the passage
rather quickly skim through and get to the gist of it so in the first one or two minutes you should
go through the entire passage to understand the overview and which paragraph is talking about
what so that when you go to the questions you can easily refer back to the respective paragraph and
answer them now let's move on to the quantitative section the corne section in GRE is divided into
multiple topics like you see here each topic has its own weight age so our tip number 5 is to use
the mabu chuan diagnostic test to understand your strong and weak scoring areas in quant you
can use mokoosh they have very good resources on each of these sections and you can know if
you're scoring good in algebra or geometry which will help you to strategize your preparation and
increase your score another important point in font is time management because you know you can
keep on solving the problems and you won't even know when the time is up so you have to have a
time limit for each of the question and try to solve it within that and if not then skip it and
revisit it at the end of the section so to manage your time effectively you should apply more logic
or reasoning wherever possible and one trick that helped me personally a lot is ballparking which
brings us to our tip number six ballparking allows you to choose the best looking option available
and works perfectly for GRE due to its pattern of multiple-choice questions like for a simple
example if you want to calculate the square root of 24 then instead of spending your time solving
it you can think of a number close to 24 something like 25 which you already know the answer for and
can choose the option whichever is closest to 5 so that's how you can quickly solve many of the
problems you can check the link in the description box to know more about it practice it as much as
you can to improve the accuracy also don't forget that there is no negative marking in GRE so if
you cannot solve a problem ballparking will help you to make a better guess and possibly increase
your score now the only section remaining is the AWA the analytical writing has two questions an
argument based essay and an issue based Esav the common question here is what should be
the length of masse you know there is always a debate about quality versus quantity here and
the study shows that 500 to 600 words with five paragraphs seems to be an ideal GREs a length so
you should maintain a balance of both that leads to our tip number seven create a template for the
introduction and conclusion of your essay your template should be useful for multiple topics
with minimum changes the templates will help you to reach the word limit easily while you can focus
your maximum time on writing the core part of the essay you can check the link in the description
box to learn about how to make this templates one of the most common areas where people lose marks
in the AWA section is Spelling's and grammar we are so much used to the SMS language and
subconsciously it shows in our writing too so our tip number 8 switch to your laptop keyboard
use your laptop keyboard while you chat with your friends and start writing full words and
sentences instead this will for sure help you you can also use grammar early to learn about
the correct usage of punctuation and centers formation but don't let gramley do it for you
instead use it only to learn about your mistakes also if you're giving your test at the testing
center or online at home make sure to give at least a couple of mock tests in the same
environment like use a headset isolate yourself take breaks use an on-screen calculator and be
prepared for the long duration of the test on the test day make sure you carry a water bottle and a
couple of energy bars to have during the breaks you will get your unofficial score immediately
after the exam except for the AWS section and you can send your scores to four colleges for
no extra charge so if you do your research in advance and can remember the college codes it
will help you to save some money if you follow all these you will for sure score more let us
know if you have any questions just remember that GRE is only one part of the application
and there are other things like toefl lor SOP which are equally important we will
soon come up with videos on it so make sure to subscribe to our Channel until next time bye bye