Within Barron's GRE prep book is "the 3,500-Word Master Word List". This is an incredible list, despite the fact that the double mentioning of the word "word" in the very name of it irks me. There are 50 word lists in this giant word list, each list containing 70 words. Barron's advises the reader to do one word list a day and dedicate about an hour to each list. It's obvious to me that I need to speed that up a jot in consideration of the fact that I registered for the test much less than 50 days before the test. Within the past six days I have studied Word Lists 1 to 26. Here are my grades that I've received on the Word Lists (Barron's suggests not moving on to study the next list until the student has got at least a 12/15 on the test that comes at the end of the word list.):
(Word List # - Score - Day)- 12/15 (Day 1)
- 15/15 (Day 1)
- 13/15 (Day 1)
- 12/15 (Day 1)
- 14/15 (Day 2)
- 15/15 (Day 2)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 15/15 (Day 3)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 14/15 (Day 3)
- 13/15 (Day 4)
- 14/15 (Day 4)
- 14/15 (Day 4)
- 12/15 (Day 4)
- 13/15 (Day 4)
- 15/15 (Day 4)
- 15/15 (Day 5 - Christmas Eve)
- 15/15 (Day 5 - Christmas Eve)
- 11/15 (Day 5 - Christmas Eve)
- 13/15 (Day 6 - Christmas Day, today)
- 12/15 (Day 6 - Christmas Day, today)
The only test that I got less than a 12/15 on was Word list 24 ("immaculate - incessant"), and my score for that was an 11/20. I plan on re-studying that list thoroughly when I'm finished with the rest of the lists. Day 3 was a good day. Got a lot of studying done. It's still Christmas (I've got about 4 hours until it's not anymore), and I plan to do some more of the Word Lists. I've almost completed Word List 27. My plan is to do 5 or more Word Lists a day, or at least catch up to what I should be at the following day if I decide not to do 5 lists one day (as you can see above). Back to studying!
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