I should mention at this point that the crux of my preparation was restricted to the last week (vocabulary from a longer period although with breaks) because of my ongoing regular involvement with college tests yada yada. So, this was another source of anxiety for me because I knew full well how hardcore people tend to get as far as their vocabulary preparation is concerned. When I struggled with TC/SE, it usually wasn't for the lack of knowledge of definitions of esoteric (thank you GRE!) words. nor do I feel (from my experience) that it is essential. I didn't go through lots of decks or 1000+ words, etc. Of course in addition to this, I picked on a lot of words from the practice sessions I used to do from the material I mentioned above. Now I don't want to understate my preparation for this to any reader going through this but largely, my vocabulary was restricted to Barron's 333 high frequency words. So, make sure you are able to evaluate your standpoint rationally. Wiser people here (and A LOT of them) suggest otherwise. But again, this is based on MY experience. Chances are, you randomly got a difficult Powerprep (they vary right?). Takeaway message: if you don't do as well on the powerprep as you had expected to, i.e. I had one day to go and I decided to come up with a strategy that would save me from a such a fiasco. On this subreddit, I saw how representative the powerprep tests are this added to my fear. I found poweprep 2 verbal to be too difficult. This is FAR from what I needed for the program I want to apply to. Come powerprep 2, I scored 170 on the quant section and a meager 151 on the verbal section. So, I looked forward to powerprep 2 to gauge my performance in a real meat timed test for real. Verbal here, I considered to be a fluke score because I had guessed several answers and even marked some randomly. The biggest intimidation that really bogged me down: the Powerprep tests.Nevertheless, I tried to pick on the techniques as much as I could (again Magoosh GRE videos are a great resource). I was not performing very well on the Verbal sections I was practicing. These included the official ETS material and Magoosh GRE videos (I found these very helpful). I don't have any GRE material and I relied solely on PDF's of the materials I managed to find on the internet.
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