To understand what it means to prepare for an exam like GRE in 1 month, you must understand the complications that come with it. Basically, you will be giving extra efforts and you’ll need to take time out for serious study everyday.
Time here indicates the running time of video lectures, including solutions. The actual study time may vary depending on the individual student. For most students, spending about 3 hours every weekday and about five hours each on Saturday and Sunday should be sufficient time for preparation.
Please dedicate 45 minutes every day for Membean vocabulary building exercises.
Week 1 | Time |
Introduction to GRE: Introduction Various Sections Why GRE? Question Solving Techniques (Video) Question Solving Techniques (Test) Course Plan Application Process Scoring Pattern |
5 Hours 15 mins 30 mins 30 mins 2 Hrs 15 mins 20 mins 10 mins 15 mins 15 mins |
Quant: Concepts and Practice Questions Numbers Arithmetic Algebra Geometry and Mensuration |
10 hours 4 hrs 2 hrs 15 mins 2 hrs 30 mins 1 hr 30 mins |
Verbal: RC: Concepts and Practice Questions Introduction to RC Reading Principles |
3 hours 25 mins 3hrs 30 mins |
Verbal: RC: Concepts and Practice Questions RC Rules RC rules practice tests |
9 hours 5 hours 4 hours |
Membean Exercises | 3 hours |
Total | 26 hours |
Week 2 | Time |
Verbal: RC: Official Guide Solutions Introduction and Official Guide Questions Sets 1, 2 and 3. Verbal: RC: Question Bank RC section tests- 1 to 5 passages. |
2 hrs 3 hrs |
Quant: Concepts and Practice questions: Coordinate geometry Permutation and Combination Probability |
3 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 15 mins |
Quant: Concepts and Practice questions Statistics Advanced quant Data interpretation Official guide questions: Sets 1 to 4 Question bank: Section tests 1 to 5. |
6 hrs 1 hrs 45 mins 45 mins 1 hr 2 hrs 1 hr 45 mins |
Verbal: RC Question bank RC section tests: 6 to 20 passages |
3 hrs |
Verbal: RC question bank RC Section tests: 21 to 25 passages Adaptive question banks |
4 hrs 2 hrs 2 hrs |
Total | 25 hours |
Week 3 | Time |
RC Section tests: 21 to 25 passages Adaptive question banks |
2 hrs |
Verbal: Text completion: Concepts and practice questions Official guide sets 1,2 and 3 Section tests 1 to 5 |
3 hrs 30 mins 2 hrs 1 hr |
Quant: Question bank: Section tests 6-10 Adaptive question bank |
1 hr 45 mins 3 hrs |
Verbal: Text completion: Question bank Section test: 6-10 |
3 hrs |
Quant: Advanced workshop: Parts 1 to 7 Quant: High level Questions |
45 mins 1 hr |
Verbal: RC: High level questions High level questions- 10 passages Verbal: Sentence Equivalence: High level questions High level questions 1 to 5 (75 questions) |
3 hrs 5 hrs 1 hr 45 mins |
Total | 27 hours |
Week 4 | Time |
Revision of Verbal and Quant formulae | 3 hrs |
Verbal: RC: High level questions High level questions- 10 passages |
4 hrs |
AWA: Analysis of Argument | 1 hr |
AWA: Analysis of Issue | 1 hr |
Revision of Verbal & Quant concepts | 3 hrs |
Mock GRE tests 1, 2, & 3 | 12 hours |
Total | 24 hours |
There you go! A proper 1 month study plan that covers all the portions of GRE in a proper order. You must be prepared to put in approximately 3 hours per day on weekdays. Also, you must maintain a check on the vocabulary building exercises as well. You can go for Membean vocabulary exercises in the morning, can devote some time for GRE Quantitative reasoning in the afternoon and in the night settle down with Verbal lectures. All in all, you must be able to finish 25 hours of studying in a month to finish the syllabus.