Preparing for the GRE

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So what did you do, if anything, to prepare for the GRE? I was looking through a book on it today and thought it looked basically like the SAT, except that a writing part is included. So I wasn't too worried. Except, it is on computer. Which is normally an advantage for me since I love the computer, but it is also bad because I have a reading disability which becomes much worse on the computer. For my first practice, I got 330 on verbal and 410 on math. Obviously, I have lots of work to do! On math, I looked back and saw that I made a lot of simple errors. I missed seeing a couple x's here and there which majorly affected how I solved the problems. If I can just look more carefully I should do okay on that. The verbal section gave me two problems. Because I very rarely read, I have a poor vocabulary. I did not even vaguely understand most of these words on the test. The second problem was that the stories proved impossible to read in such a short amount of time, so I tried to skim, which never works for me. I was able to get the passage about the science questions just by being able to read science papers a bit better. The other one discussed a book review and I could not get any information out of it. I want to take the test in mid-July (or maybe later if I have to, I'm going to look into taking it as a disabled student since otherwise I'm not sure I have a chance). What can I do before then to get a better score? I'm going to try to improve my vocabulary first and foremost.