GRE Study Plan
Essential Materials:
- ETS Official GRE
Guide 2nd Edition
- Manhattan 8 New
GRE Strategy Guides (At least buy one (Preferably RC) to access their 6
online tests)
- Princeton 1014
Practice questions for New GRE
- Manhattan 500
Essential Words
- Manhattan 500
Advanced Words
- Nova Math Bible
- Powerscore GMAT
Critical Reasoning Bible
- ETS Powerprep
Software
- A Notebook (Hard
copy)
Optional Materials:
- Magoosh GRE Prep
(Strongly Recommended)
- Barron’s 1100
words you need to know
- Manhattan 5 lb.
Book of GRE Practice Problems (1800+ Practice Problems)
- Majortests.com’s
1500 Wordlists
- Barron’s 333
High Frequency words (If you have time, must read all of these)
GRE Study Plan:
-> Daily Schedule: First Month
-> Verbal
35 words per day from Manhattan 500 Essential & Advanced Words.
Also
write it down in your Notebook too.
Learn RC
Strategies from Manhattan RC Guide
Practice
2 RC’s per day from Codecoax.com
-> Quantitative
Finish all the Manhattan 6 Quantitative Series of Books in 20 Days
Next,
Start with the Princeton 1014 Practice Questions
Optional:
Do sums from Manhattan 5 lb. book of GRE Practice Problems
-> Daily Schedule: Next 15 Days
->Verbal
Go with Manhattan SE TC Guide and attempt all the SE TC Questions
Next, go
with SE TC Drills from Princeton 1014 Practice Questions
For CR,
Practice all the CR Drills from PowerScore GMAT CR Bible
Optional:
Go through Majortests.com’s 1500 wordlists / Barron’s 1100 words
-> Quantitative
Finish Princeton 1014 Practice Questions
Next, go
with ETS Official Guide and solve all the Quantitative sums
Optional:
Do sums from Manhattan 5 lb. book of GRE Practice Problems
Optional:
Solve Magoosh Practice Problems
-> Daily Schedule: Next 20 Days
->Verbal
For RC, Practice all the RC Drills from Manhattan RC and Princeton 1014 Practice Questions
Optional:
Go through Majortests.com’s 1500 wordlists / Barron’s 1100 words
->Quantitative
Go with Nova Math Bible and Finish it
Optional:
Do sums from Manhattan 5 lb. book of GRE Practice Problems
Optional:
Solve Magoosh Practice Problems
-> Daily Schedule: Next 17 days (Take Mock Exams)
Take mock exams and analyze your mistakes and work on them.! Also solve Magoosh Practice Questions.
Optional: Go through Barron’s 333 High Frequency words
1st Day: Kaplan 1st MST / Magoosh Practice Test
2nd Day:
Kaplan 2nd MST / Magoosh Practice Test
3rd Day:
Kaplan 3rd MST / Magoosh Practice Test
4th Day:
Kaplan 4th MST / Magoosh Practice Test
5th Day:
Kaplan 5th MST / Magoosh Practice Test
6th Day:
ETS Official Guide 1st Practice Test
7th Day:
ETS Official Guide 2nd Practice Test
8th Day:
Manhattan 1st MST
9th Day:
Manhattan 2nd MST
10th Day:
Manhattan 3rd MST
11th Day:
Manhattan 4th MST
12th Day:
Manhattan 5th MST
13th Day:
Manhattan 6th MST
14th Day:
ETS Powerprep 1st Test
15th Day:
ETS Powerprep 2nd Test
16th Day:
Revise words, Math formulaes and Take proper rest
The D –
Day: The GRE Exam
A day
after exam: Come back to this post and tell us how it went in the comments! :D
You can change this GRE Study plan as per your convenience considering you have more months to prepare. I have considered that you work 3 hours/day on weekdays and 5-6 hours/day on weekends.