<p>Is the 4800 wordlist a good preparation for the GRE verbal section?</p>
<p>Anyone used this before?</p>
<p>Why don’t you take the official practice exams, write down the words you don’t know, and count how many of them are in this word list? That will show you if the word list might be useful for you.</p>
<p>Personally, I found Sparknotes’ 1000 Words for the SAT much more useful than any GRE vocab list. I took the old GRE though. I hear that the new format puts less emphasis on vocab?</p>
<p>I’ve taken both versions of the GRE. You really don’t need to memorize so much vocab for the new one. In fact, it’s a waste of time to memorize 4000 words.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken any practice exams yet. Are they free?</p>
<p>I thought the verbal section was mainly memorizing words and read some short script and answer some questions?</p>
<p>I’ve found myvocabapp (<a href=“http://www.myvocabapp.com/[/url]”>http://www.myvocabapp.com/</a>) to be quite comprehensive. i got their gold plan for 4000 words and found it much easier to memorize and retain vs going through barron’s</p>
<p>Also it’s not very fun to make 4000 vocab flash cards by hand …</p>
<p>I seem to remember that I memorized the Barron’s 100 most used words list and it worked very well. A few that I wouldn’t have known definitely popped up. I got >80th percentile, which is pretty much the only thing schools care to see about the GREs.</p>