90 Day GRE Study Plan

90 Day GRE Study Plan (Verbal Focused)
BY MIKE ON MARCH 5, 2012 IN STUDY GUIDES AND PLANS

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OK, you are starting more or less from scratch, and you want to prepare for the GRE in 90
days. You need a strategic plan to organize yourself. I designed four different versions of
the 90 Day Plan, and I need you to start with a little self-diagnosis. Which sounds most like
you?
90 Day GRE Study Plan for Beginners: Help! Math and verbal both scare the living
bejeebers out of me! I need all the help and support I can get! Help!
90 Day GRE Study Plan (Math Focused): I have a natural affinity with the verbal, but the
math is far less intuitive for me. I would like to focus more there.
90 Day GRE Study Plan (Verbal Focused): Me a math nerd. Me think all math easy.
Me have big verbal problems. One day, me will talk good.
90 Day GRE Study Plan for Advanced Students: I actually feel reasonably comfortable with
math & verbal; if I took the test today, Id get around 310-320 combined score. Im
interested in refining my understanding and getting into the 320s region in the next twelve
weeks.

90 Day GRE Study Plan (Verbal Focused)

Essential Materials:
Magoosh GRE Prep
ETSs Official Guide to the GRE book (+ our free video explanations)
ETSs PowerPrep Software: If you are a Mac user that cant use ETSs Poweprep, or would
prefer to take the practice test on paper, you can print out ETSs practice test PDF (with
video explanations here). Take note that the Poweprep software and the paper-based test
have overlapping material, so it wont be of much help to do both, unless you space them
out far enough so that you wont recognize the questions and answers! I recommend using
the Poweprep software if you can, since taking the test on a computer is a better simulation
of exam day conditions.
Volumes 7 & 8 of the Manhattan GRE books. Its an eight-volume set, so if you want extra
math practice, feel free to buy some of the other volumes. Volumes 7 & 8 are used in this
plan. One other purpose of getting these books is to get the code in the back, to register
and get access to six GRE tests online.
Magooshs online GRE Flash cards. Theyre free and you can use them on the web, on
your iPhone/iPad or Android.
Subscribe to the Sunday New York Times (NYT), online or print
Reading material: this may be any non-fiction scholarly book, history and social science
preferable. You may also choose one of the recommended magazines: Scientific
American, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Economist. You are
reading (a) to build your reading comprehension skills, (b) to refine your understanding of
grammar and usage, and (c) to expand your vocabulary.
a journal or notebook (yes, a physical hard copy item)
Notecards
Supplemental/Optional Materials:
Any of the steps listed in the schedule for the materials below are purely for extra practice,
so they are to be done as optional tasks if you have extra time.
Novas GRE Math Prep Course: there is essentially no instruction in this book and the
explanations are horrible: we only recommend this as a bank of challenging math problems.
Any one volume of the Manhattan GRE books. Its an eight-volume set, so buy as much as
you think will help you and as you can afford. One of the purposes of getting one book is to
get the code in the back, to register and get access to six GRE tests online.
McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math: this book is for those struggling with the very
basics of math, folks who are sheer panic over almost anything mathematical. If you are
following this plan, youre probably pretty confident in your math skills, so Id recommend
this book only if youre really desperate for some extra practice material.
Quizlet.com: gives you online access to flashcards, making it easier, say, to quiz yourself on
your mobile device
WordSmart: very basic level 1 definition of words with simple sentences
Dictionary.com: very good example sentences with definition
Wordnik.com: provides a flood of example sentences
Word Dynamo (Dictionary.com): give you little quizzes & games to add some variety to
vocab learning
Magoosh iPhone/Android app, for mobile practice
A note on learning GRE vocabulary: first of all, its important not only to learn the literal
dictionary definition (the denotation), but also to understand the metaphorical use of the
word in context (the connotation). For example, the word opaque literally means not
transparent, but metaphorically it can means hard to understand or, describing a person,
it can mean thick-headed, stupid. Ultimately, you should strive to learn both the
denotation and the connotation of each word.
Daily review of vocab is vital. I wrote this schedule recommending the Magooshs GRE
Flashcards, but DO NOT limit yourself to just these words. AS YOU READ and find more
words you dont know, look them up, make flash cards (including context), and make your
own flashcard decks. You could have one pile for words whose denotation you are trying to
master, another containing words for which you know the denotation but not the
connotation, and a done stack that gets reviewed only rarely.
A note on the prep books: Dont write in any of the test prep books, because for any of
them, after a period of time you may want to go back and do a problem again that you
havent seen for a while. You can only start it fresh if the page is free of your marks.

This 90-day plan is demands a manageable pace that must be followed diligently so things
dont get out of hand. Its designed to have you improve as much as you can improve in a
three month period. I have designed twelve weeks, assuming 1-2 hours for each of the five
weekdays, and one 4-5 stint on the weekend (Day Six). If you would prefer to work on
both weekend days, and free up some weeknight time, feel free to make those
changes. Note: Many folks find that each days assignments take 1-2 hours, although times
to complete them will vary for different students
Also, as much as possible, get enough sleep during this month. REM sleep plays an
important role in encoding long term memory, and in an eight hour period of sleep, the last
hour has the most REM. If you are getting 7 hours/night instead of 8 hours/night, you are
depriving your brain of one of its most powerful systems for learning and
remembering. Caffeine and energy drinks will keep you feeling awake if you dont get
enough sleep, but they dont do bupkis to replace the lost opportunity to encode more
information into long term memory.
Week One
Week One, Day One
1) Go to http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/about/content/, and read about the
content of the GRE. Click on and read each sub-heading link.
2) In the Official Guide Guide,
Read Chapter 1, Introducing the GRE revised General Test
Read Chapter 2, GRE Analytic Writing (just the descriptions of the question, not all the
sample material)
Read the introductory few pages of Chapter 3, GRE Verbal Reasoning (everything up to
the sample questions)
Read the introductory few pages of Chapter 4, GRE Quantitative Reasoning (everything up
to the sample questions)
3) In the Official Guide Guide, start skimming the GRE Math Review. Do the first two
exercise sets (Arithmetic & Algebra) and correct your work right away.
4) In Magoosh, watch the following videos
In Verbal: under Text Completion Overview, the first three videos in that section

Week One, Day Two
1) Finish skimming the GRE Math Review in the Official Guide. Do the last two exercise sets
it contains (Geometry & Data Analysis) and check your work right away. If most of that
material is obvious to you, and most of the questions easy, then this plan is the right plan
for you. If more than a couple topics in the Math Review are difficult/confusing for you,
consider whether this plan is the best for you.
2) Download and start reading the Magoosh GRE eBook. Continue reading whenever you
have the time over the course of the next two weeks.
In Verbal: under Text Completion Overview, the last three videos in that section
NOTE: As you finish each section of lesson videos, take the practice quiz at the end of the
set.
NOTE: I am not assigning you any math videos. You may want to watch a couple of the
strategy summary videos at the ends of sections, simply to verify that you understand
everything covered. As you feel you need brush up on anything mathematical, feel free to
dip into those videos.
4) In Magoosh, set up a practice session by clicking on the Practice link in the header. For
Math, check off all of the subjects that youre comfortable practicing, set the difficulty to
adaptive, the question pool to unanswered, the number of questions, the time to no
limit, and the mode to practice mode.
Narrow your practice to just that subjects youve studied so far. Youll widen the scope of
your practice over the course of your studies.
Do the following problems:
10 Multiple choice math questions
For each Magoosh problem, after you submit your answer, on the next page which tells you
whether you were right or wrong, theres a video solution and below that a text
summary. If you got the question right, skim the text summary to verify you got it right for
the right reason. If you got the question wrong, see if you can figure out for yourself why
the right answer is right. After thinking through it yourself, watch the video, taking notes in
your journal about any concept or any aspect of the question type that was unclear to you

Week One, Day Three
In Verbal: under Sentence Equivalence, the first three videos in that section
2) Download the Magoosh Complete Guide to GRE Vocabulary
Read carefully the section Making Words Stick, about learning vocabulary, and the section
Vocabulary in Context: Articles from Magazines and Newspapers. Skim the rest of the
book to get a sense of the layout and style. As you build vocab through this plan,
periodically go back to this book to verify your understanding and to make connections to
other words. The more ways you have of remembering a word, the more likely you are to
remember it!
3) In Magoosh, set up a practice session by clicking on the Practice link in the header. For
Math, check off all of the subjects that youre comfortable practicing, set the difficulty to
adaptive, the question pool to unanswered, the number of questions, the time to no
limit, and the mode to practice mode.
Narrow your practice to just that subjects youve studied so far. Youll widen the scope of
your practice over the course of your studies.
Do the following problems:

Week One, Day Four
In Verbal: under Sentence Equivalence, the last three videos in that section
2) In Magoosh, do the following problems

Week One, Day Five
In Verbal: under Reading Comprehension, the first four videos in that section
In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the first three videos in that section
10 Quantitative comparison math questions
3 Paragraph argument verbal questions
3 Reading comprehension verbal questions

Week One, Day Six
In AWA: all ten videos
In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the last six videos in that section
In Verbal: under Vocabulary, all ten videos
2) Today, you are going to write two essays, half an hour each. You will write two Issue
essays and two Argument essays.
For topics, go to the ETS GRE Issue Pool
(http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/issue/pool) and the
ETS GRE Argument Pool
(http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/argument/pool). Figure
out a way to pick topics at random (maybe you print the lists, cut it into slips of paper, and
choose some at random). Write the essays in a word processing program.
Now that you have these essays, what do you do with them? If you have a friend or mentor
who is a gifted writer, see if they would read the essays for you and critique them. If they
are willing, you can show them the assessment criteria in the Official Guide Guide, and ask
them to follow it. If you cant convince anyone else to read it, you may try posting them on
that same GMAT club forum, and see whether an expert there will critique your
essay. Failing either of these options, at least you can set the essays aside, and in a
couple days re-read them with the Official Guide Guides rubric beside you.

Week Two
Week Two, Day One
In Verbal: under Reading Comprehension, up to Difficult Passage I
In Math: under Data Interpretation, all four videos
2) Manhattan GRE Volume 7: Reading Comprehension & Essays
Read Chapter 1
3) In Magooshs GRE Flashcards, go through 20 words. Review any previously learned
flashcards.

4) Read
three good-sized article from The Economist, noting grammatical structures. Look up, and
create a flash card for, any words you dont know.
3 Data interpretation questions

Week Two, Day Two
In Verbal: under Reading Comprehension, the last four videos in that section
Read Chapter 2, up to and including Principle #3. Take notes in your journal on any
concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
3) In Magooshs GRE Flashcards, go through 20 words. Review your previously learned
flashcards.
4) Read
5 Text completion verbal questions
5 Sentence equivalence verbal questions

Week Two, Day Three
In Verbal: under Text Completion No Shifts, all four videos in that section
Read to the end of Chapter 2, but dont do the Problem Set today. Take notes in your
journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read
Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up, and create a flash
card for, any words you dont know.

Week Two, Day Four
In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shifts, the first three videos in that section
Do the Chapter 2 Problem Set.. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take notes in
your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Two, Day Five
In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shifts, up to Multiple Shifts
Read Chapter 3 and do the Chapter 3 Problem Set. Read the full explanation of the
answers. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to
you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Two, Day Six
1) Today, you are going to write two essays, half an hour each. You will write one Issue
essay and one Argument essay.
For topics, go back to the topics from the ETS Issue Pool & Argument Pool. Again, choose
topics at random. Write the essays in Word.
When done, share the essays with a trusted friend/mentor, or post in the GMAT forum, or
set aside and critique it yourself with the Official Guide Guide rubric in a few days.
2) In the Official Guide Guide:
a) do the Verbal Reasoning Practice Sets 1-6
b) do the Quantitative Reasoning Practice Sets 1-4
Treat this as a mock GRE. You might even combine it with the two essays, and do
consecutive batches 2-3 set without interruption, to simulate more effectively a real
GRE. Set a timer for the time limits. Here are the time limits to observe:
Official Guide Guide Verbal Reasoning Set 1 = 9 minutes
Official Guide Guide Quantitative Reasoning Set 1 = 22 minutes
After you are done, check all your answers. For any question you got right, skim the
explanation to verify that you got it right for the right reason. For any question you got
wrong, read the explanation thorough, taking notes in your journal on any concepts you
didnt understand and anything about the question format that psyched you out. If you still
cant make sense of the question after reading the explanation, email us at Magoosh.
If you are doing much better than expected on Verbal, or much worse than expected on
Math, this might be a good time to consider whether you should switch to another version of
the 3-month plan (see explanations of them at the top).

Week Three
Week Three, Day One
In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shifts, the last three videos in that section
Read Chapter 4 and do the Chapter 4 Problem Set. Read the full explanation of the
you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Three, Day Two
In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the first three videos in that section
Read Chapter 5, but dont do the Problem Set today. Take notes in your journal on any
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Three, Day Three
In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the last two videos in that section
In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the first video in that section
Do the Chapter 5 Problem Set. Read the full explanation of the answers. Read Chapter 6.
Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Three, Day Four
In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, up to One Sentence Triple Blanks
Read Chapter 7 through the entire discussion of all the questions accompanying the Model
Short Passage Revisited. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or
strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Three, Day Five
In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the last three videos in that section
In Ch. 7, read the Model Long Passage Revisited and the following pages of questions &
explanations pertaining to it. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Three, Day Six
1) Today, you are going to write four essays, half an hour each. You will write two Issue
essays and two Argument essays.
For topics, go back to the topics from the ETS Issue Pool & Argument Pool. Again, choose
topics at random. Write the essays in Word.
When done, share the essays with a trusted friend/mentor, or post in the GMAT forum, or
set aside and critique it yourself with the Official Guide Guide rubric in a few days.

Week Four
You have already seen all the Magoosh Verbal videos at this point. In a few weeks, we will
watch them a second time. In the time slot in which you would be watching those videos,
I will have you work on challenging math problems from the NOVAS book.

Week Four, Day One
1) In the NOVAs GRE Prep Course book
Do Problem Set A Substitution & Problem Set B Substitution, Quantitative
comparisons. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
NOTE: The Math in the NOVAS book is very challenging, and therefore serves well as
practice for the mathematically ambitious students preparing for the GRE. The explanations
in the NOVAS book are not that good, and there are flaws in the answer key. If you get
one of these questions wrong, check for any mistake, but if you cant find one, you may be
correct.
The problem sets throughout the book, denoted by capital letters, are in alphabetical order
and are found mostly at the ends of sections.
Also, do all the Nova questions timed. Count the number of problems in a problem set,
multiply that number by 1.75, and round to the nearest whole number: thats the number of
minutes you should give yourself for the problem set.
Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage A. When you are done, read thoroughly the solutions.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Four, Day Two
Do Problem Set C Substitution & Problem Set D Defined Functions. Check your answers
as soon as you finish.
Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage B. When you are done, read thoroughly the solutions.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Four, Day Three
Do Problem Set E Number Theory, #1-20. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage C. When you are done, read thoroughly the solutions
on. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Four, Day Four
Do Problem Set E Number Theory, #21-39. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage D. When you are done, read thoroughly the solutions.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Four, Day Five
Do Problem Set F, Quantitative comparisons. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage E. When you are done, read thoroughly the solutions.
flashcards.
4) Read
5 Numeric entry math questions

Week Four, Day Six
1) Today, you are going to take the hard copy practice GRE in the Official Guide Guide,
starting on p. 303.
For the two essay questions, write the essays in a word processing program. These essays
you will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for
feedback, or critique later with the Official Guide Guide rubric.
As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks
in between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real
GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for
dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level
and concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Five
Week Five, Day One
Do Problem Set G, Hard Quantitative comparisons, Problem Set H Hard Quantitative
comparisons,, and Problem Set I Geometry #1-6. Check your answers as soon as you
finish.
Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage F. When you are done, read thoroughly the solutions.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Five, Day Two
Do Problem Set I, Geometry, #7-31. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Do Chapter 8 Problem Set, Passage G. When you are done, read thoroughly the solutions.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Five, Day Three
Start reading Chapter 9. Read up to and including the discussion of the first question type,
Strengthen the Conclusion. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Five, Day Four
Finish reading Chapter 9, but you dont have to do the Problem Set today. Take notes in
your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Five, Day Five
In Ch. 9, do ASP Practice Problems. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take notes
in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Five, Day Six
1) Today, you are going to take your first of the Manhattan GRE practice tests. Take the
whole test, and then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got
wrong whatever about the concepts or the questions format was unclear.
Week Six
Week Six, Day One
Do Problem Set J, Geometry, Problem Set K Coordinate Geometry, and Problem Set L
Elimination Strategies. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Read approximately the first quarter of Chapter 10, a long chapter; stop at any convenient
stopping point. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats
new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Six, Day Two
Do Problem Set M, Inequalities. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Read approximately another quarter of Chapter 10, stopping at any convenient stopping
point. At this point, you should be about halfway through Ch. 10. Take notes in your
journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Six, Day Three
Do Problem Set N, Fractions & Decimals. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Read approximately another quarter of Chapter 10, stopping at any convenient stopping
point. At this point, you should be about 75% through Ch. 10. Take notes in your journal
on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Six, Day Four
Do Problem Set O Equations. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Finish reading Chapter 10. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Six, Day Five
Do Problem Set P Averages, and #1-5 of Problem Set Q Ratios & Proportions. Check
your answers as soon as you finish.
Read the introductory pages to Appendix A, everything before the vocab list. Skim that
vocab list. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new
to you.
flashcards.
4) Read
5 Multiple answer math questions

Week Six, Day Six
1) Today, you are going to take another one of the Manhattan GRE practice tests. Take the

Week Seven
The beginning of this week is the halfway point in the three-month plan, so for the next
three weeks, you watch each of the Magoosh verbal videos a second time.

Week Seven
Week Seven, Day One
In Verbal: under Text Completion Overview, all six videos in that section
2) Manhattan GRE Volume 8: Text Completion & Sentence Equivalence
Read Chapter 1.
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Seven, Day Two
In Verbal: under Sentence Equivalence, all six videos in that section
Start reading Chapter 2. Read through the section on Pivot Words. Do the Drill:
Sentence Analysis (Clues, Pivots, Fill-Ins). Read the full explanation of the answers. Take
notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Seven, Day Three
In Verbal: under Reading Compression, the first four videos in that section
In Ch. 2, read the section on Double and Triple Blank Text Completions, and do the Drill:
Sentence Analysis with Multiple Blanks. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Seven, Day Four
In Verbal: under Reading Compression, up to Difficult Passages I
In Ch. 2, read the section Traps to Avoid During Elimination, and do the Drill: Easy
Questions. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take notes in your journal on any
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Seven, Day Five
In Verbal: under Reading Compression, the last four videos in that section
In Ch. 2, do the Drill: Medium Questions. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Seven, Day Six

Week Eight
Week Eight, Day One
In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the first five videos in that section
In Ch. 2, do the Drill: Hard Questions. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Eight, Day Two
In Verbal: under Paragraph Argument, the last four videos in that section
Begin reading Chapter 3. Read the first few pages up to the first drill, and do the Drill:
Sentence Analysis. Read the full explanation of the answers. Then read the sections up to
the second drill, and do the Drill: Answer Choice Analysis. Read the full explanation of the
you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Eight, Day Three
In Verbal: under Text Completion No Shift, all four videos in that section
In Ch. 3, read the final content sections, and do the Drill: 20 Easy Questions. Read the full
explanation of the answers. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Eight, Day Four
In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shift, the first three videos in that section
In Ch. 3, do the Drill: 20 Medium Questions. Read the full explanation of the answers.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Eight, Day Five
In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shift, up to Multiple Shifts
In Ch. 3, do the Drill: 20 Hard Questions. Read the full explanation of the answers. Take
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Eight, Day Six

Week Nine
Week Nine, Day One
In Verbal: under Text Completion Sentence Shift, the last three videos in that section
Read Chapter Four. Take notes in your journal on any concept or perspective or strategy
thats new to you.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Nine, Day Two
In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the first three videos in that section
Read Chapter 5. Make flash cards for any idioms that are unfamiliar to you, and drill these
with your vocabulary flash cards over the next few weeks. Do the Drill: Decoding Idioms.
Grade your work using the key, and go back to the chapter to figure out any you got wrong.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Nine, Day Three
In Verbal: under Text Completion Double Blanks, the last two videos in that section
In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the first video in that section
In Appendix A, read through the Root List: Part I. Make flash cards for any roots that are
unfamiliar to you, and drill these with your vocabulary flash cards over the next few weeks.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Nine, Day Four
In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, up to One Sentence Triple Blank
In Appendix A, read the Part II: Prefixes. Make flash cards for any prefix roots that are
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Nine, Day Five
In Verbal: under Text Completion Triple Blanks, the last three video in that section
In Appendix A, read the Part III: Suffixes. Make flash cards for any suffix roots that are
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Nine, Day Six

Week Ten
At this point, you have seen all of the Magoosh verbal videos twice (except the Vocabulary
videos watch them again as need be, but you probably have the hang of learning vocab
by this point!). As in Weeks 3-6, we are now going back to the challenging math problems
in the NOVAS book.

Week Ten
Week Ten, Day One
Do Problem Set Q, Ratios & Proportions, #6-30. Check your answers as soon as you
finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
If you are making flash cards of the 500 Advanced Words, continue to work on
that. Otherwise, re-read any section and redo any drill/test in the Manhattan GRE books.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Ten, Day Two
Do Problem Set R, Exponents & Roots and Problem Set S, Factoring. Check your
answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Ten, Day Three
Do Problem Set T, Algebraic Expressions and #1-11 of Problem Set U, Percents. Check
your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Ten, Day Four
Do Problem Set U, Percents, #12-31. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Ten, Day Five
Do Problem Set V, Graphs. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Ten, Day Six

Week Eleven
Week Eleven, Day One
Do #1-22 of Problem Set W, Word Problems. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
Re-read any section and redo any drill/test in the Manhattan GRE books.
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Eleven, Day Two
Do Problem Set W, Word Problems, #23-32 and Problem Set X, Sequences &
Series. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read three good-sized article from The Economist, noting grammatical structures. Look
up, and create a flash card for, any words you dont know.

Week Eleven, Day Three
Do Problem Set Y, Counting. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Eleven, Day Four
Do Problem Set Z, Probability & Statistics. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read
Week Eleven, Day Five
Do #1-22 of Problem Set AA, Permutations & Combinations. Check your answers as soon
as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Eleven, Day Six
1) Today, you are going to take the last of the Manhattan GRE practice tests. Take the

Week Twelve
Week Twelve, Day One
Do Problem Set AA, Permutations & Combinations, #23-43. Check your answers as soon
as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read
10 Multiple answer math questions

Week Twelve, Day Two
Do Problem Set BB, Functions. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Twelve, Day Three
Do Problem Set CC, Miscellaneous Problems. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
2) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
4) Read

Week Twelve, Day Four
Do the Diagnostic/Review Test, #1-15. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Watch any 3-4 videos for an additional time
3) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
5) Read

Week Twelve, Day Five
Do the Diagnostic/Review Test, #16-30. Check your answers as soon as you finish.
Watch any 3-4 videos for an additional time
3) Manhattan GRE
flashcards.
5) Read

Week Twelve, Day Six
1) Today, you are going to take the practice GRE available through the GRE PowerPrep
software. Pay attention to any differences you notice between the Manhattan GRE tests and
this one: this one is presumably much more representative of the real GMAT.
At the end, copy the essays you wrote into a Word doc, and as before, these you will share
with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback, or critique
later with the Official Guide Guide rubric.

After Week 12: Concentrated Review
At this point, if you have been following the schedule, you should have done every question
in both Magoosh at least once. For whatever days remain before the test, keep up work on
GRE math and verbal. Some suggestions for what to do:
1) Through selecting question type & difficulty on the Dashboard, do Magoosh problems
over again, and see how you do a second time.
3) Keep watching for an additional time 3-4 Magoosh lesson videos as needed, on whatever
topics you feel you need to review
4) Keep reading your challenging material, to build vocabulary and acclimate your ear to
eloquent style.
5) Keep drilling your vocab cards.
6) As needed, re-read any section of the Manhattan GRE books or re-do any problems from
the NOVAS book.

Day before the test:
1) No GRE preparation all day
2) Eat a large, healthy, leisurely dinner no alcohol!
3) Go to bed earlier than usual.

Day of test
1) ABSOLUTELY NO LAST MINUTE GRE PREPARATION!
2) Eat a large breakfast, full of protein
3) Do relaxing, fun activities to pass time until the test

Bring to the test
1) A liter of water
2) Healthy energy-packed snacks (nuts, protein bar, etc.)
3) On breaks, make sure to get up, move & stretch moving & stretching the large muscles
of the body (legs & torso) will get oxygen flowing throughout, which will help keep you
awake and keep you thinking clearly.
- See more at: http://magoosh.com/gre/2012/90-day-gre-study-plan-verbal-
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BY MIKE ON MARCH 5, 2012 IN STUDY GUIDES AND PLANS

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