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So, your GRE exam is coming up. By now, you must be familiar with the GRE exam pattern, syllabus and marking schemes. You must have looked at the course and found that it essentially contains Verbal & Quantitative aptitude.
But you haven’t started your preparation or should we state that you don’t know where to start? Don’t worry, because we have you covered with a 1-month study plan, which comprises all the elementary steps you need to go through in order to complete your preparation and achieve top GRE scores.
The study plan covers all the topics for the GRE exam and the time/day that needs to be allotted to complete your preparation in the short duration of 30 days.
1 Month Study Plan for GRE
Preparing for an exam like GRE in a month comes with its complications. Basically, you will have to give extra effort and take time out for serious study every day.
Time here indicates the running time of video lectures, including solutions. The actual study time may vary depending on the individual student. For most students, spending about 3 hours every weekday and about five hours each on Saturday and Sunday should be sufficient time for preparation.
Here’s a 4-week schedule for preparing for GRE:
| Week 1 | Time |
|---|---|
| Introduction to GRE:
Introduction Various Sections Why GRE? Question Solving Techniques (Video) Question Solving Techniques (Test) Course Plan Application Process Scoring Pattern |
5 Hours
15 mins 30 mins 30 mins 2 Hrs 15 mins 20 mins 10 mins 15 mins 15 mins |
| Quant: Concepts and Practice Questions
Numbers Arithmetic Algebra Geometry and Mensuration |
10 hours
4 hrs 2 hrs 15 mins 2 hrs 30 mins 1 hr 30 mins |
| Verbal: RC: Concepts and Practice Questions
Introduction to RC Reading Principles |
3 hours
25 mins 3hrs 30 mins |
| Verbal: RC: Concepts and Practice Questions
RC Rules RC rules practice tests |
9 hours
5 hours 4 hours |
| Membean Exercises | 3 hours |
| Total | 26 hours |
| Week 2 | Time |
|---|---|
| Verbal: RC: Official Guide Solutions
Introduction and Official Guide Questions Sets 1, 2 and 3. Verbal: RC: Question Bank RC section tests- 1 to 5 passages. |
2 hrs 3 hrs |
| Quant: Concepts and Practice questions:
Coordinate geometry Permutation and Combination Probability |
3 hrs
1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 15 mins |
|
Quant: Concepts and Practice questions Statistics Advanced quant Data interpretation Official guide questions: Sets 1 to 4 Question bank: Section tests 1 to 5. |
6 hrs
1 hrs 45 mins 45 mins 1 hr 2 hrs 1 hr 45 mins |
| Verbal: RC Question bank
RC section tests: 6 to 20 passages |
3 hrs |
| Verbal: RC question bank
RC Section tests: 21 to 25 passages Adaptive question banks |
4 hrs
2 hrs 2 hrs |
| Total | 25 hours |
| Week 3 | Time |
|---|---|
| RC Section tests: 21 to 25 passages
Adaptive question banks |
2 hrs |
| Verbal: Text completion:
Concepts and practice questions Official guide sets 1,2 and 3 Section tests 1 to 5 |
3 hrs 30 mins
2 hrs 1 hr |
| Quant: Question bank:
Section tests 6-10 Adaptive question bank |
1 hr 45 mins
3 hrs |
| Verbal: Text completion: Question bank
Section test: 6-10 |
3 hrs |
| Quant: Advanced workshop: Parts 1 to 7
Quant: High level Questions |
45 mins
1 hr |
| Verbal: RC: High level questions
High level questions- 10 passages Verbal: Sentence Equivalence: High level questions High level questions 1 to 5 (75 questions) |
3 hrs
5 hrs 1 hr 45 mins |
| Total | 27 hours |
| Week 4 | Time |
|---|---|
| Revision of Verbal and Quant formulae | 3 hrs |
| Verbal: RC: High level questions
High level questions- 10 passages |
4 hrs |
| AWA: Analysis of Argument | 1 hr |
| AWA: Analysis of Issue | 1 hr |
| Revision of Verbal & Quant concepts | 3 hrs |
| Mock GRE tests 1, 2, & 3 | 12 hours |
| Total | 24 hours |
There you go! A proper 1-month study plan that covers all the portions of GRE in proper order. You must be prepared to put in approximately 3 hours per day on weekdays. Also, you must maintain a check on the vocabulary building exercises as well. You can go for Membean vocabulary exercises in the morning (for 45 minutes), can devote some time for GRE Quantitative reasoning in the afternoon and in the night settle down with Verbal lectures. All in all, you must be able to finish 25 hours of studying in a month to finish the syllabus.
For any further assistance, talk to our mentors @ +918884544444 or write to us at gre@thinkandlearn.in. Read on to learn about 1 Month Study Plan & 3 Month Study Plan for GRE.
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