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by HSB on February 14, 2010

in GRE

If you are taking GRE Exam, believe it or not you need to have good vocabulary. If you have habit of reading
novels, magazine and English news papers, then your vocabulary will be high compared to others. But, not
everyone are avid readers and to improve GRE Verbal skills, memorizing GRE Verbal words is something you
have to do.

But, not everyone have equal ability to remember words. Barron’s book has 50 Verbal Words list and it’s no an
easy task to remember all the words. Some students have natural capacity to read words list few times and
remember all 3500 words in 1 to 2 months time. Here are 6 different ways to to memorize Barrons GRE words
just to tackle GRE Verbal section.

1. Brute Force Memorizing ( if you are good at it)

2. Word – Word Associations
3. Word to Picture Association (Time Consuming)
4. Use Flash Cards
5. Word Deconstruction
6. 80/20 Way

Brute Force – Word Memorizing

Just memorize all the words lists one at a time. Have a target of 3 to 7 wordlists per week or 1 word list per day.
Read 5 word list, then make sure you can recollect all the words before starting 6th word list. you can mix it up
by starting 1 to 5 then 46 to 50 and back to 6 to 10 and so on.

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If you plan to follow this approach, you would need atleast 4 to 5 months of GRE Exam preparation time.

How to Improve GRE Exam Score?

Word – Word Associations

Pretty much all the words are associated to different word (synonyms). When you read a word, find all the
synonyms related to that and try to remember atleast 1 synonym. This is not easy as it sounds, but if you are
struggling to find a way to remember, then it could help.

Within 3500 Barrons GRE Words, you will find related words. If you find a word in List 1 and if you read a
synonym for that word in List 25, go back to List 1 and write the word you found in List 25.

Word to Picture Association

There are few companies that sell products [Word to picture associations]. Do you have to spend ton of money
to buy something that will hell you remember words. It’s just waste of money. How long it would take for you to
associate a picture to a word?

Seriously, if you cannot find an image to associate to a word, you better reconsider if you really want to take
GRE Exam.

This another way to remember Barrons GRE Words, but its time consuming. You might spend more time trying
to remember the picture than the words.

GRE Verbal Flash Cards

Using Flash Cars is the best way to remember the words. There are many techniques that you can use along with
flash cards to memorize GRE Verbal words. You need to buy an flash cards products, just buy few packs of plain
visiting cards and use it as Flash Card. It’s simple and it stays on with you. Read more about using Flash Cards to
memorize GRE Verbal Words.

Word De-construction

Use suffix or root words to find the core meaning of the word, then put that in context to find the right word. To
do that you would have to know most of the root words.

80/20 Way

Well, this is one of the commonly used method while studying for GRE Exam. Read as many words as possible,
then just give up. Go take the exam and during GRE Test be ready to accept any you get in GRE Verbal section.
But, don’t feel bad if you didn’t score good in Verbal section.

There are many who have put lot of effort just to memorize and still ended up scoring less, but that’s how GRE
Exam is designed. It’s not that exam was tough on specific day, its just how much one can score.

Do you know any additional methods to memorize Barrons GRE words? Please share with us by writing a
comment below. Also, you can follow Happy Schools on Google Buzz and share this article with your Buzz
friends.

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3 ketan July 1, 2010 at 12:06 PM

Hello ,

I have found a nice method to remember GRE words and would like to share the same. As you mention
the picture way there is also a mnemonics way where you can relate a sentence of break word to make a
sentence. But its not easy to make mnemonics on your own and takes a lot of time also so there is a better
way. Please not that am not intending to spam this blog or advertise anything or anyone. Just want to
share. I have found this nice software name “Mnemonic Vocabol ” on mobisys.in . Really nice one speeds
up your vocabulary building.

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6 Saurabh February 15, 2010 at 2:00 PM

I had used the 1 st technique of learning ie . straight learning from word list and also used audio word list
in my mobile I find it best for revising word lists just plug into ear those word list you have already read
before.
taken almost 2 months learn whole Barron list finaly end up ok score of 630 in verbal.

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7 Ahmad June 6, 2010 at 8:51 PM

Hi,

I would like to ask you about the best source to read for the verbal in GRE.

Does all the verbal question come from the Barn’s word List?

Thanks

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8 pranshu rana February 15, 2010 at 7:00 AM

hello friends , i found out one new method to memorize the barrons wordlist , you can listen the audio
wordlist of barrons word list and also put it into your mobile phone, so that you can easily listen in a day
when you want , i am giving the link below to download those audio files.
http://audio-wordlists.blogspot.com/

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9 Andrie Tanusetiawan February 15, 2010 at 10:06 AM

Thanks for the link, Pranshu! I also find that reading a lot of books and novels really helps me with
improving my vocabulary.

Jesus bless you,

Andrie Tanusetiawan

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