<p>I started out with perhaps a 580-620 in verbal, then after two months hit a 710 on the exam.</p>
<p>I went through the Princeton and Kaplan wordlists and pulled out all the words that I either didnt know or could not accurately define. There are also a few Barrons words mixed in. Something that helps memorization is creating short quips about the word (see examples in the link). Other than that, the best practice for the exam is doing practice problems. This is because while learning 1000 new words will guarantee that a few (1-5) may appear on your exam, its the process of learning new vocabulary and doing practice problems that prepares you for strategically answering the real exam questions.</p>
<p>High difficulty questions:
An example of a high difficulty question with a trick answer will run along these lines</p>
<p>A ____ uses a _____ to perform some job</p>
<p>Answers:
(for first blank)
common occupation
uncommon occupation
random easy word
random hard word</p>
<p>(for second blank)
random hard word
random easy word
easy tool related to common occupation
uncommon tool seemingly related to uncommon occupation</p>
<p>This type of question contains multiple traps designed in such a way that less than 5% of students would answer correctly. Most students would answer with either the uncommon occupation with the uncommon tool or the common occuapation with its related tool.
However the real answer would most likely be the uncommon occupation with the random hard word. The justification being that while the uncommon tool could be used by the uncommon occupation, it is not as good an answer as the random hard word no-one has encountered since the 1800′s.</p>
<p>I posted the wordlist i used here
[Michael’s</a> GRE wordlist and help with high difficulty que… | Michael Jiang](<a href=“http://www.michaeljiang.com/michaels-gre-wordlist/]Michael’s”>http://www.michaeljiang.com/michaels-gre-wordlist/)</p>