How to Improve GRE Verbal Score

The GRE Verbal section can seem daunting if you don't have the right tools to attack it, so here's what you need to do to score high.

Improve Vocabulary Skills

You probably already knew that you need good vocabulary to score high on the GRE Verbal section. You'll find good vocabulary skills will be useful with reading comprehension, the Analytical Writing section, and especially antonyms, setence completion, and everyone's favorite, analogies.

Read GRE-level Material

If GRE passages seem difficult, then you need to practice reading GRE-level passages. The best places to find GRE-level reading is in GRE practice books and publications like The Wall Street Journal Online. Reading from The Journal Online regularly will help improve vocabulary and reading skills and allow you to get used to reading from a computer screen for a long period of time. Remember, the GRE is a computer adaptive test.

Find Verbal Strategies that Work Best for You

There are lots of strategies offerred by many test prep companies to approach analogies, antonyms, sentence completions, and reading comprehension. Find the GRE strategies that work best for you. Go through GRE strategy books, and find the strategies that you feel most comfortable with, and most importantly, earn you a higher score on GRE practice tests. After you've found your strategy, practice it until it becomes second nature.