One way to get faster at GRE Verbal is to work on efficiency. When preparing for GRE Verbal, we tend to focus on things such as learning GRE words and strategies and developing skill in arriving at correct answers consistently. At the same time, we can also focus on the efficiency aspect.

You may already be familiar with focusing on efficiency from your GRE Quant preparation. It’s common when people prepare for GRE Quant for them to work on answering questions in the most efficient ways possible. Well, you can work on GRE Verbal in a similar way. In addition to learning to arrive at correct answers consistently, work on arriving at them in the most efficient way possible.

For instance, in Sentence Equivalence, you can develop skill in efficiently working through the answer choices by eliminating easy-out choices first, and then carefully choosing between the remaining ones. In Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning, you can learn to find efficiencies in the ways you look for information in passages and go through answer choices.

There are many ways to become more efficient in how you go about answering GRE Verbal questions, and any move you make to become more efficient is going to help you get through the Verbal section more quickly.

Happy studying! 😃

Warmest regards,
Scott