<p>You should be fine with those. I got the Kaplan book, but substituted the Princeton guide for Barron’s. I thought Kaplan was more useful for the verbal section, since they group words together into stuff like “criticism” and “falsehoods”, but that Barron’s was more useful for the quantitative tests/practice tests.</p>
<p>What system would you recommend to prep my vocab?</p>
<p>I am studying for the GRE through The Princeton Review “1,014 GRE Practice Questions” book. It is great practice, however, there are multiple errors in the answer keys, especially in the math sections. The errors are easy to notice, though, because most of the time, the explanation will show the right answer. Some questions have the explanations confused with other questions, though. This may sound frusterating, but the book offers a lot of practice with sample questions and offers explanations for all the questions, unlike other books.</p>
<p>If you search around, there are some nice mnemosyne and anki vocab files that may prove helpful (they’re programs that are meant to help you study).</p>
<p>MasterMoe for vocabulary try Barron(3500 words) and Big Book which I heard is no longer in print…you should be fine…</p>
<p>It’s all about practice…practice…practice…</p>
<p>I have to agree, the verbal is pretty intimidating. I took my first GRE practice test today, i’m a rising college freshman, and got a 550 on the verbal. I thought i had a pretty vast vocabulary, but apparently not. Some of the words were really out there. I hope i can raise my score by the time i take the actual GRE: i don’t plan on studying, though, beyond what college coursework i do.</p>