<p>My cousin took the GRE, and she says that it's best to wait 2 months before the test, and go ballz to the wall with vocabulary and practice tests. I'm looking for additional input.</p>
<p>I believe my reading speed has reached it's plateau. I read moderately, and my peers can still read almost 2x as fast as I can. I've tried every tip i could get my hands on, like grouping words together and refraining from going back to reread etc. But that has only resulted in the complete loss of comprehension.</p>
<p>I'm not too worried about math, though. I think I can get it down with 2 weeks of review.</p>
<p>I think I'm a decent writer, so meh...</p>
<p>I think it’s best that you do GRE on a date 2-3 months before the application process start. Therefore from today, if you still have a lot of time, study for at least 3 months, 3-4 hours per day. You said you are not too worried about math, therefore use those 3-4 hours to memorize vocabularies and do verbal practice tests. </p>
<p>Make sure you go to your nearest Borders/B&N/any bookstore and do every practice test books (Kaplan, GRE, Baron, etc) in there and be strict on yourself when doing it, aka time it. The number of practice tests you do should be >100. Getting used to reading those comprehensions in strict and shorter timeframe, in my experience, has helped me tremendously. I was only studying for 2 weeks since I only had two weeks before application started and my score average on the second week raised ~150 points from the first week.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I would agree that a few months should do it. Three months seems like a lot–I only had one month to study and I still did fine.</p>
<p>My only advice would be to take the practice test online, the version closest to what you’ll be taking, first, and do it a couple times, so you can design a realistic study plan. I foolishly studied based on my paper-and-pencil scores and that was a problem, because the computerized test was different.</p>