👋 Hello, my friends at GRE Prep Club!

Many students make the mistake of thinking that all they need to do to prepare for the GRE Verbal section is memorize a bunch of vocab words. However, simply memorizing a GRE word list is not going to properly prepare you to earn a great Verbal score.

Rather, there are numerous concepts, skills, and strategies test-takers must master to perform well on GRE Verbal questions. If you neglect those skills, you’ll quickly find that, while you may do all right on easy-level Verbal practice questions, you struggle to consistently perform well on medium- and hard-level questions.

So, in order to properly prepare for GRE Verbal, you’ll likely need to spend the majority of your Verbal study time learning and practicing things other than vocabulary, things such as:

• the mechanics and logic of GRE Verbal questions
• the tricks and traps that Verbal questions employ
• how to analyze Verbal questions efficiently
• specific strategies for tackling each Verbal question type

Remember also that when you study and answer Verbal practice questions, you’ll likely have to grapple with many of the words you’ve seen in your vocab study. That contextual vocabulary learning is an important complement to your vocab-focused prep because it helps to solidify and add dimension to your vocabulary knowledge.

Warmest regards,

Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep