“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.” - J. K. Rowling Whether you loved Rowling’s Harry Potter or not, you cannot deny the importance of a good vocabulary. Especially, when you are a GRE applicant your vocabulary is one of your strength. Except the quant section, the rest of the paper largely depends on your vocabulary. Therefore, the first step of preparation for a GRE applicant is developing their vocabulary. Blogs, articles, listicles, interviews have been conducted by professionals in order to guide students how to improve vocabulary for GRE exam. While sitting with a dictionary alone won’t solve the purpose, creating your own dictionary is time consuming. The balance or ideal solution to develop a healthy vocabulary for your GRE test is FLASHCARDS.

What are GRE Flashcards?
GRE Flashcards are small size hard paper with one word and its meaning. GRE examinees prepare as many flashcards they can in order to improve their vocabulary. As GRE examinees come across a new set of terminologies or words, they can jot on cards as records. Later they can use thid card to recall and learn the new vocabulary they create for themselves.

The preparation of GRE flashcards is time consuming. Hence experts recommend GRE applicants should start preparing flashcards when there is ample time in hand before the exam. It’s not a last minute task. Also, one should spend a considerable part of their study time with the GRE flashcards in order to learn the new words and terms they come across.

When to prepare GRE Flashcards?
One should start preparing GRE flashcards months before the final GRE test. A minimum of 45 days should be in hand before one starts preparing their own flashcards.

You may wonder despite the existence of dictionaries and their online versions, why should one waste time in preparing their own GRE flashcard? Well, what might be a new term to you, may not be the same for another applicant. Hence if you make your own GRE flashcards, it will be customised exactly how you want it.

Why prepare GRE Flashcards?
Preparing GRE flashcards is time consuming. Yet experts recommend GRE applicants to prepare their own set of flashcards because then, the flashcards are customized. If one applicant prefers to divide the flashcards alphabetically, the other may prefer to diving on the basis of synonyms. Hence its suggested that individual GRE applicants prepare their own set of GRE flashcards.

You may wonder when you can simple store all new vocabulary in a word document or notepad, why do professionals suggest a pen and paper version of it. Here is clarifying your doubt:

Why GRE Flashcards be a materialistic (pen & paper) one over electronic version?
Professionals suggest GRE flashcards to be of pen and paper version as the chance of getting lost is less here. Also, in the pen and paper version, the cards are small in size. Students find it easy to deal over staring a long list on the computer screen.

Nowadays, GRE flashcards are available online and along with GRE books. You can download one of them or order a book, to lessen your work. Yet, it’s better to prepare your own GRE flashcards. Wondering why? Here are three solid uses of the customized GRE Flashcard set you will prepare: Improves your reading and writing capability The moment you start building your own GRE flashcards, the chances of you applying new terminologies in your English is more. This will positively impact both your reading and writing skill, which will definitely improve your GRE score as well as make you a well versed English learned personality in the society. Involving and informative step Making GRE flashcards is time consuming. However, the initiative will allow you spend a long time with the beautiful English language. This is sure to affect your English communication at a later stage. Start preparing the flashcards and you will witness the result at a later stage. Real life impact beyond GRE Perhaps you will start building flashcards just for a good score in GRE. However, the method is so addictive, students accept that they continue it even after GRE test. Flashcard makers tend to experience a positive alteration in their communication skills and English usage over time. This extends beyond GRE score to real professional life.