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But you guys he scored a 340 on the GRE which is a perfect score. Let me say that one more time. He scored a perfect score on the GRE. So he's going to be sharing some of his tips that he used to get a perfect score in the GRE with you all so that you all can also improve your GRE scores. So without further ado here's Philip. Hey guys my name is Philip and I make videos for a channel called the tested tutor. Massive thank you to Adana for giving me a chance to talk to you guys today. My channel is awesome but it will never quite be as cool as her channel. Before I get talking about my 340 in the GRE I just wanted to give you a quick background about why I'm here on the interwebs. My story starts with helping hundreds of kids with maths and English and I kind of got addicted to helping people pass their tests. But what about all those poor people on the internet who can't afford a tutor like me because I am kind of expensive so I thought I'm going to give my advice my amazing secrets out for free on the internet and that's what my channel is about giving my tutoring secrets to those who can't afford for a private tutor. I talk about the GRE, English vocabulary, how to learn in general but I don't know my channel might develop in different ways. We'll see it depends what people want and what helps people the most. But back to my 340 so I got inspired to take the GRE after I heard that it tested vocabulary which is one of my favourite topics and I researched the test by watching loads of YouTube videos including an amazing one by a person called Adana. So kind of on a whim I decided to take the test. I gave myself about a couple of months of preparation study and in a second I'll give you my tips about what I did to improve my score. I had many advantages going into the test of course but I would boil down these three tips as the way that you can improve your score wherever you're starting from. First one, biggest one, do loads of practice questions and practice tests. Most students that I meet only end up doing two, three hundred practice questions including inside practice tests. I think I ended up doing about 2,000 before the test, did about 12 different practice tests from Power Prep, Manhattan and Kaplan. I did all the questions in the official guide, the Manhattan 5 pound book. There's so many questions you can find plus ones online as well. The more questions you do simply the better prepared you're going to be. That's not the only thing you need to do but that is the number one sine qua non for getting that amazing score. Number two is to document your mistakes. It's not enough just doing loads of questions. Every time I made a mistake I would document what I did wrong and what I need to improve on. My determination was just simply this, never make the same mistake twice. If I could reassure myself that I'd never make that exact same mistake twice I knew that I would keep on improving because I didn't start off getting 340s. Also I must say that writing stuff down instead of just looking at the answers, actually documenting your mistakes, I think it just physically helps your brain to absorb the information in a way that just looking at the answers will never do. Third thing of course increase your vocabulary by maybe four to five thousand words before the test. So I started with quite a good vocabulary to begin with but I definitely increased it by several thousand words by using every single available word list I could find on the internet. So my actual favorite one and here's one of my secrets is the 1853 most difficult words. It's like an online resource from Scribid or something like that and I went through and made sure to memorize every word I didn't understand. That's a specially useful tip for those aiming for above a 320 because the words are quite hard. No matter where you're starting you've always got the Economist and the Magoosh app and you can increase your vocabulary by 50 to 100 words a day and overall by several thousand words before the test. A bonus tip for getting the really insane scores like those above 330 is to try to enjoy the process. Now I know you guys are going to be thinking this guy is just crazy how can you enjoy a test like the GRE but the more you can find some fun and amusement in learning like a cool maths trick to show to your friends or learning a new vocab word that you can use to put anyone in any conversation the more you're actually going to spend mental energy and time invested into learning stuff for the test. If you don't enjoy it at all you're just going to stop yourself revising you're not going to want to spend your weekend revising and I know it sounds absolutely crazy if you can try to make the process more enjoyable you will spend more time doing it and that's what I did. I did quite enjoy learning so I invested loads of hours. I know not everyone might feel that they can enjoy the test but the more you enjoy it or let's just say the less you hate it the better the result will be. Anyway that's enough from me I'm about to make a video on the best hairstyle for getting a 340 on the GRE so I'll be right back. Oh Phillip so you've had jokes right um it's an inside joke you guys he talked about the hair I didn't hear a video um if you have not seen that video on my channel about different hairstyles for your interview go ahead and check that video out but um he's about to go make a video on hairstyles for a 340 on the GRE. Thank you Phillip so much for making this video um I learned some stuff for my study habits as well so I'm really going to be taking away just repetition in terms of those questions maxing out on those questions because I'm studying for my pants so that is something I'm definitely going to do I've already done over 2000 and I'm using Roche review and Kaplan as well just kind of get those rapid fire questions so I think that's a really good tip that he gave you guys and also just increasing the vocabulary because when I'm taking some of my test questions as well I'm seeing words like equine and if you don't know that that means horse and then somewhere else it says horse toxin for like diphtheria or tetanus you're not going to be able to put the two together so I think that's really a good tip as well so you guys if you have not already done so go take a look at Phillip's channel the testitutor and see what he has to offer thank you again Phillip for really um just giving us all of this great information I know I'm going to take some of these tips away if you have any questions for him leave them in the comment section below if you have any questions for me as well do the same follow me on instagram at a down in the pa and hit that like button for this video if you really like that um this video I really appreciate you guys and I will talk to you guys next time