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 paperbased 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. 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 (or Quizlet.com) WordSmart (or Wordnik.com)

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.

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 CAT tests online. Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math

NOTE: 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.

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.

Abbreviations OG = the ETS Official Guide to the GRE MC = Multiple Choice math questions MA = Multiple Answer math questions NE = Numeric Entry math questions QC = Quantitative Comparison math questions TC = Text Completion verbal question SE = Sentence Equivalence verbal question RC = Reading Comprehension verbal question AWA = the Analytical Writing Assessment, the essay-writing section

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 OG, Read pp. 1-9 Read pp. 11-17, 25-31 Read pp. 43-46

Read pp. 107-109 3) Start reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 207-221. Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Arithmetic Exercises (pp. 219-220) and correct your answers. 4) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Integer Properties, the first two videos in that section

Week One, Day Two

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 222-233. Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar. 2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Integer Properties, up to Squares of Integers 3) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC 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

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 233-243. Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Algebra Exercises (pp. 243-246) and correct your answers. 2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Integer Properties, up to GCD LCM Rule 3) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week One, Day Four

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 248-259. Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Geometry Exercises (pp. 259-262) and correct your answers. 2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Integer Properties, up to Consecutive Integers 3) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week One, Day Five

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 263-275. Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar. 2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Integer Properties, the last two videos in that section In Math: under Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios, the first video in that section 3) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week One, Day Six

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 275-296. Take notes in your journal on whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Data Analysis Exercises (pp. 296-298) and correct your answers. 2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In AWA: all ten videos 3) 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 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 OG, 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 OGs rubric beside you.

Week Two
Week Two, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios, up to Multiples of 10 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 3-7 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the first 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Two, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: under Text Completion Overview, all six videos 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 9-14 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 TE 5 SE

Week Two, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios, up to Word Problems with Fractions 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 15-20 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week Two, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: under Text Completion No Shifts, all four videos 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 21-25 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 RC

Week Two, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios, up to Percent Increase and Decrease 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 27-33 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 20 MC

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 OG rubric in a few days. 2) In the OG & McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math: a) in OG, on pp. 54-74, do the Verbal Reasoning Practice Sets 1-6 b) in OG, on pp. 145-160 do the Quantitative Reasoning Practice Sets 1-4 c) in McGraw-Hill, on pp. 293-296, do GRE Math Practice Section 1 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: OG Verbal Reasoning Set 1 = 9 minutes OG Verbal Reasoning Set 2 = 10 minutes OG Verbal Reasoning Set 3 = 9 minutes OG Verbal Reasoning Set 4 = 10 minutes OG Verbal Reasoning Set 5 = 10 minutes

OG Verbal Reasoning Set 6 = 10 minutes OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 1 = 22 minutes OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 2 = 23 minutes OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 3 = 24 minutes OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 4 = 11 minutes McGraw-Hill, GRE Math section = 35 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 either Math or Verbal, 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
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios, the last four videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 35-39; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Three, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: under RC videos, the first six videos 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 39-41, do the Practice Problems on p. 41 and check your answer; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 TE 5 SE

Week Three, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Algebra, Equations, Inequalities, the first four videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 43-44; take the Number Properties Test 1 (pp. 45-47), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week Three, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: under RC videos, the last five videos 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on pp. 49-50 and GRE Practice Problems on p. 51, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 RC

Week Three, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under Algebra, etc, up to Factoring Rational Expressions 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 52-56; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 20 MC

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 OG rubric in a few days.

Week Four
Week Four, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Algebra, etc, up to Three Equations with Three Unknowns 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 56-57, do the Practice Problems (p. 57), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Four, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: under SE videos, the six videos of that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math take Number Properties Test 2 (pp. 59-61), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 TE 5 SE

Week Four, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Algebra, etc, up to Working with Formulas 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on pp. 63-64 and GRE Practice Problems on pp. 64-65, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do 10 QC

Week Four, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: in Text Completion Sentence Shifts, the first four videos 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 67-69; do the Practice Problems on p. 70, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do 10 RC

Week Four, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Algebra, etc, the last five videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 71-74; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards. 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems: 5 MC, 5 NE

Week Four, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the hard copy practice GRE in the OG, 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 OG 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
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under Word Problems, the first three videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 75-76, do the Practice Problems (p. 76), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do 20 MC.

Week Five, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: in Text Completion Sentence Shifts, the last five videos 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 77-81; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems: 10 TE, 5 SE

Week Five, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Word Problems, up to Age Questions

2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 81-84, do the Practice Problems (p. 84), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do 10 QC.

Week Five, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Verbal: in Text Completion Double Blanks, all five videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 87-89, do the Practice Problems (p. 90), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do 5 RC.

Week Five, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Word Problems, up to Shrinking and Expanding Gaps

2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the Arithmetic Computation Test 1 (pp. 90-96), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do 10 MC.

Week Five, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take your first of the MGMAT 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. 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 Six
Week Six, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Word Problems, up to Three Criteria Venn Diagrams 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on pp. 99-100 and GRE Practice Problems on pp. 100-102, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do 20 MC.

Week Six, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos: In Verbal: in Text Completion Tripe Blanks, the first four videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read p. 103, do the Word Problems on pp. 103-104, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems: 10 TE 10 SE

Week Six, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Word Problems, up to Growth Tables 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 104-107; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems: 10 QC

Week Six, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos: In Verbal: in Text Completion Tripe Blanks, the last three videos in that section. 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 108-109, do the Practice Problems (p. 109), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 RC

Week Six, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under Word Problems, the last four videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 111-113, do the Practice Problems (pp. 113-114), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems: 5 MC 5MA

Week Six, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT 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. 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 Seven
Week Seven, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Power and Roots, the first five videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 115-116, do the Practice Problems (p. 117), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 117-120, do the Practice Problems (p. 121), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Seven, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Power and Roots, up to Simplifying Roots 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 122-125, do the Practice Problems (pp. 125-126), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 TE 5 SE

Week Seven, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Power and Roots, the last four videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 127-131; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week Seven, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Coordinate Geometry, the first four videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read p. 132, do the Practice Problems (p. 133), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 134-136, do the Practice Problems (p. 137), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 RC

Week Seven, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Coordinate Geometry, the last five videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the Arithmetic Computation Test 2 (pp. 138-142), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 20 MC

Week Seven, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT 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. 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 Eight
Week Eight, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Geometry, the first four videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on pp. 145-146 and GRE Practice Problems on pp. 147-149, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Eight, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Geometry, up to Polygons 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 151-153, do the Practice Problems (p. 154), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 154-157, do the Practice Problems (p. 158), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 TE 5 SE

Week Eight, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Geometry, up to Circle Properties 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 158-159, do the Practice Problems (p. 160) and Algebra Test I (pp. 160-165), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week Eight, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Geometry, the last three videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on p. 168 and GRE Practice Problems on pp. 169-171, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 RC

Week Eight, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Statistics, all five videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 172-173, do the Practice Problems (p. 173), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 174-178, do the Practice Problems (p. 179), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 MC

10 NE

Week Eight, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT 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. 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 Nine
Week Nine, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Counting, the first four videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 180-183, do the Practice Problems (p. 183), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 184-186, do the Practice Problems (p. 186), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 20 MC

Week Nine, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Counting, up to MISSISSIPPI rule 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the Algebra Test 2 (pp. 187-192), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 TE 5 SE

Week Nine, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Counting, the last four videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on p. 195 and GRE Practice Problems on pp. 196-197, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week Nine, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Probability, the first three videos in the section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 198-205, do the Practice Problems (p. 205), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 RC

Week Nine, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Probability, up to Determining Independence 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 207-209, do the Practice Problems (p. 210), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read p. 211 do the Practice Problems (pp. 211-2), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Nine, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT 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. 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 Ten
Week Ten, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos In Math: under Probability, the last four videos in that section 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 212-216, do the Practice Problems (p. 216), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 20 MC

Week Ten, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos At this point, you should be done with all the Magoosh lesson videos. Keep up a pace of watching 4-5 videos a day, watching whatever videos you decide you need to see a second time. 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 218-219, do the Practice Problems (p. 219), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 220-225; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 TE 5 SE

Week Ten, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 225-229, do the Practice Problems (p. 229), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week Ten, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the Algebra Test 3 (pp. 231-236), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 RC

Week Ten, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on pp. 241-2 and GRE Practice Problems on pp. 243-245, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Ten, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT 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. 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 Eleven
Week Eleven, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 247-250, do the Practice Problems (p. 250), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 251-252, do the Practice Problems (p. 253), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 20 MC

Week Eleven, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 253-257, do the Practice Problems (pp. 257-258), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 259-262, do the Practice Problems (p. 262), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 TE 10 SE

Week Eleven, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read p. 263, do the Practice Problems (p. 264), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 265-267, do the Practice Problems (p. 267), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Eleven, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math read pp. 268-271, do the Practice Problems (p. 271), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp. 273-275, do the Practice Problems (p. 275), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 RC

Week Eleven, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the Geometry Test on pp. 277-281, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC

Week Eleven, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the last of the MGMAT 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. 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 Twelve
Week Twelve, Day One
1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math do the solved GRE Problems on pp. 284-285 and GRE Practice Problems on pp. 285-287, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 MC 10 MA

Week Twelve, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math In a 35 minute sitting, take GRE Math Practice Section 2 (p. 303-306); grade it right after, but you dont have to check all the solutions tonight. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 TE 5 SE

Week Twelve, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math Go over the solutions to GRE Math Practice Section 2. For questions you got right, skim the explanation, simply to verify that you got it right for the right reason, and that theres nothing further about that topic you need to know. For questions you got wrong, read the explanation carefully, writing in your journal anything new you learn or anything you need to remember. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 10 QC

Week Twelve, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math In a 35 minute sitting, take GRE Math Practice Section 3 (p. 313-315); grade it right after, but you dont have to check all the solutions tonight. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 RC

Week Twelve, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time 2) In McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math Go over the solutions to GRE Math Practice Section 3. For questions you got right, skim the explanation, simply to verify that you got it right for the right reason, and that theres nothing further about that topic you need to know. For questions you got wrong, read the explanation carefully, writing in your journal anything new you learn or anything you need to remember. 3) In Barrons 1100 Words You Need to Know Look over the what should be the last 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards 4) Read Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any words you dont know. 5) In Magoosh, do the following problems 5 MC 10 NE

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 MGMAT tests and this one: this one is presumably much more representative of the real GMAT. 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. 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 OG 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 a additional time 4-5 Magoosh lesson videos a day, 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) Re-read any topics in the McGraw-Hills Conquering the New GRE Math any topics where you feel you would benefit from further review.

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.

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