I would have started early on vocabulary. How early? I am thinking starting a vocabulary building excercise when I was in high school. yes, that would not only have helped me for the SAT, but also build my vocabulary for writing assignments and the GRE General. Now, I am reduced to recognizing key roots in words to guess a general meaning. Though not a bad technique, knowing the actual definition would make the analogies and antonym sections a little less difficult.
I would have started early on building my analytical writing skills. ETS gives out the entire pool of topics for both the issue and the argument sections of the analytical writing section. had I known this before a week ago, I would have started giving preliminary answers to each question to develop an idea of what I would address on test day. Also, this would keep building the necessary skillset to answering each anlytical writing section to satisfaction.
I let the GRE General slip by some. Though rumor has it that the GRE General is not as important as the subject tests are, I seriously doubt any school would admit a graduate student who scored below a 400 on the GRE verbal.
Wish me luck. After the GRE nonsense is all done, I'll post some chemistry topics of interest.
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