<p>If you’re in the 500-600 range, your score could be severely affected by luck, as well. Depending if you happen to know the very specific words in the first few questions you could end up with a 450 or even a 600, so you could get unlucky and need to retake it. As for advice, I think Kaplan has a 500 word flashcard thing, and there are some slightly more ambitious study tools as well. I think Baron’s 3000 would take way more time/dedication than it’s worth. If you’re going into engineering/science/math, then I’d say really the GRE isn’t that important, just get 500-600 on verbal, 4-5 on writing, and 800 on math.</p>
<p>I didn’t really study for the GRE more than a couple hours the day before and it went fine. I would recommend putting some more time in maybe, but I wasn’t about to waste my semester studying for the GRE instead of for my classes.</p>