Daily classes of 1.5 hour
June-Aug 2011
By: shivgan3@yahoo.com
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About the teacher
How to use Wiziq
Introduction to the Course
Types of Question Old vs. New
Developing a personalized Strategy and
setting up targets
Books Required for the study
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References
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Premium teacher at Wiziq.com
Have taken more than 400 public classes all
of which can be accessed on Wiziq
Scored 630/800 in Verbal (91%ile) May 2011
All important concepts also uploaded on
Youtube
One of the biggest video collection on GRE
(uploaded on Wiziq)
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Request a trial from Wiziq.com; you may call
them as well for support, maintenance and
training
Lets see how to access old recordings and use
Wiziq (by Screen Sharing)
What all you get in this course
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What is the new GRE
Lets check the ETS Website now (by Screen
Sharing)
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Attending the Classes and learning process
Solving problems from the books
Attempting paper tests
Power Prep 2
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Building a strategy for you
How to use the next 3 months; fix the dates
Use Google calendar and also the calendar on
your mobile; sharing strategy file on gdocs
Strict time table to complete the resources
that are targeted
We will start with the Official Guide to GRE
and then move to Verbal Workout for the
New GRE
Tentative Preparation time (20 June - 30 Aug)
Level 1:1 hour/day class for 10 days
(then a break of couple of days or more as required)
 Level 2: 1 hour/day class for 10 days
(then a break of couple of days or more as required)
 Level 3: 1 hour/day class for 10 days
Practicing the tests from Power Prep 2 and other tests
 Final Level: Doubt solving classes for the test
questions
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New GRE is not dependent on non-context vocab,
gives a change to get 99%ile in math, as 800/800 is
old is still 92%ile
More focus on RC and FIB
More than once choices correct questions
Along with this, I will be working on GRE Big book:
RCs and Sentence Completion which remains the
same.
And also vocab learning techniques which will be the
same.
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Still ETS is using the ETS Big Book based
collection (see yourself: screen sharing)
The questions of RCs have now become
easier as chances of long RCs is minimized
Time bound gaming has become very more
relevant which very less people understand
Memory no longer an issue for the exam!
All major RC areas and ETS’s predilection
remains exactly the same
Importance of Sitters has increased
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New GRE 2011-2012: Strategies, Practice,
And Review by Kaplan
McGraw-Hill's Conquering The New GRE
Math
Cracking The New GRE, 2012 Edition
New GRE 2011-2012 Premier (With CD-ROM)
by Kaplan
Big Book ETS Publication
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Used free GRE test preparation software or
books published by ETS
Used GRE test preparation book published by
ETS or ETS/McGraw-Hill
Used test preparation book or software
published by another publisher
Used ScoreItNow!TM Online Writing Practice
Accessed test familiarization information on the
GRE website
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Application of Yoga and Dhyan series
GRE secrets and untold things revealed
Strategy for exam temperament
Daashatra Technique for vocabulary
Book Reviews to get the crux of many books
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Reading comprehension related areas (very
scientifically dealt with)
Sentence completion (strategically resolved
area)
Vocab based questions (requires longest
time)
AWA
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Target time to complete this book
Use camera and take picture of doubts, email
me or bring the jped / pdf files to the class to
discuss doubts
Or tell me the page number during the live
class
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Bible for the exam
A publication by ETS
One thing comes out that the exam is moving
move toward critical reasoning (page 56)
Long passages cannot have multiple choice
question
Since exam of Verbal in two parts, longer
passages cannot fit in
This book is the book of revelations
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The best part here is that 800/800 was
common(which was 92%) but the new GRE’s
math will give you 99%ile
The GRE Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE® revised
General Test contains three types of questions:
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Reading Comprehension
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Text Completion
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Sentence Equivalence
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Multiple-choice Questions — Select One Answer Choice:
These are the traditional multiple-choice questions with five
answer choices of which you must select one.
 Multiple-choice Questions — Select One or More Answer
Choices: These provide three answer choices and ask you to
select all that are correct; one, two or all three of the answer
choices may be correct.
 Select-in-Passage: The question asks you to click on the
sentence in the passage that meets a certain description.
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Time in each of 3 types of questions
More than one option correct (1/7 vs 1/2)
Size of passage
Pre knowledge
Making notes for direction / diagramming like
T or A or V
Importance of triggers
Sitters vs time takers
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Tone
Direction of the passage
Diagramming and symbols
Political language
Paraphrasing
Checking flow at the end
Grammar(parts of speech) / active-passage /
idiomatic usage ie parallelism
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Please see the old ppts
Refer to common docs with me on google
docs
Use skype to call me