<p>Jimmyck, </p>
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<p>funny how all these 1 post members joined in the same month.</p>
<p>Hey, does anyone have an idea of when I should start studying for the GRE? I am currently a sophmore, and plan on taking it by the end of my junior year, or the summer of senior year.</p>
<p>Studying for the GRE depends on what your weaknesses are. I haven’t done mathematics in ages, and lack all the basics. So I am starting around a year prior to taking to take it, though i’m taking my time. However, 2 - 3 months should be enough.</p>
<p>Usually 3 months ahead of time is a good marker for when to start studying for the GRE. I ended up doing some self prep from the Barrons GRE book and I was able to get a basic idea of how to approach each part of the quantitative and verbal reasoning section. Take so many tests only help to an extent as I started to notice a trend of not finishing some questions in time and getting certain reading questions wrong. I decided to take a class with ClearPath Advantage. They had the option of the 3 student class (knowing my budget). I signed up for that and it worked out well so I could see how other people in the class were approaching different parts of the test, too. The teacher showed us how to answer all the math section question in 2 mins or less and how to approach the reading section with a keen eye to answer the inference type questions and viewpoint questions. The verbal was basically a breakdown of mnemonic devices, word groups, root words, & prefixes/suffixes. I did end up clearing up almost all my issues on the test and my score went up from a 290 to a 330. Was it worth taking the class? In my opinion we never wasted time on broad strategies. Each class was focused on what we needed help with so I found it to be well-worth my time and money.</p>
<p>Barron’s all the way: extensive, relevant and quite similar to the kind of questions you will see on the actual test!!</p>