How I scored 320+ in GRE | 20 days Magical GRE plan for working professionals and lazy heads

In 20 days of hardcore preparation(6h+ every day), you can manage to get that magical score that you wished for. I will not waste your time by throwing 500 resources and making you go through a 5000 words list, because that is a not smart work; to survive in this fast paced, competitive world, you need to work hard but with strategies to boost your productivity

Quick tips:

1. Take at least 5-6 mock tests in a real-like timed setting WITHOUT USING GOOGLE, you can easily get them for free. 2 from ETS, 1 from Magoosh, 1 from Manhattan, 4 from Kaplan
2. Get done with the 5lbs book of practice problems, and please attempt the advanced quant section given in the end of the book. Key here will be timed practice, I know it is boring but please keep a timer with you. Note what topic/question takes more time.
3. For AWA, you cannot turn yourself into a writer in 20 days, but you can definitely go through Best American American essays and memorize the pattern/format of their texts. Practice 6-8 essays of both kind(I never said easy 20 days)

Over my years I have helped a lot of friends and colleagues score 320+ in GRE.  So now, I would like to address the mistakes they made while preparing or while taking the test, and how they overcame them, in the subsequent attempts.

1. Spending too much time on one question, and forgetting the fact that there are 19 more in the same section. 
• Solution - You have 30-35minutes per section and 20 questions, start with the easiest ones, rush through all of them and attempt that you think are doable within a minute maximum. You wouldn't know if you can solve a question in 1 minute, unless you know your strong areas and had a lot of practice!
• Make this a rule of thumb that you cannot spend more than a minute on a question during your first pass.
• Once you are done with all the questions that were easy for you, let's say 14/20 done. You still have a good 16-18 minutes left to dedicate on the 6 tough nuts. Now you start off with those questions where you know will reach to a definitive answer and won't end up shooting darts in the air. For Example. If there's a set of data interpretation question where you need to draw inferences from a table, and if there's a question which states "find the missing interior angle of the polygon". I would suggest attempt the DI question first because you will have at least something to mark. In geometry trick questions you can easily spend 10 minutes without realizing it. Boom, there go 5 questions that could have been solved in these 10 minutes.
2. Less reading speed. This is a fundamental problem when solving Reading Comprehension, you start reading slowly and comprehending even slowly and then you take a look at the clock, and rush like a rabbit who woke up and realized he was a bit too overconfident. 
• Here tortoise is the clock and you need to beat the clock so don't get dissolved into one RC.
• This problem is a very difficult one, reading speed of a normal college student ranges between 150-250 words per minute, with comprehension(retention) rates between 50-70%. But In my experience, to succeed in GRE you need to cross 400 words per minute rate, with at least 80% retention. Now how to achieve this thing, which ideally takes years, in just 20 days?
• You know when your car has stopped on the highway because the battery is faulty, or died completely. It's the same story here, you need to jump start your reading skills for one final drag to reach your destination. At this point you might be wondering, how the heck do I jump start my reading skills!?!?! I cannot suddenly gulp down bizarre texts and come up with recondite observations?!
• Trust me you can do this, because I did it myself and so did the other dozen people. It is not at all easy and needs commitment from you, just this once I promise, commit to the plan and magic will happen. Now what you need to do is 
•  Read unrelated articles from field like Technology, Healthcare, Medicine, History, Art and Literature(1000 Words+ each at least) with somewhat esoteric or not-so-easy-to-grasp language. You have to read one article in one go and make sure you DON'T ALLOW yourself to go over any more than twice, yes you cannot read any line or any paragraph more than twice, so what you need to do is, READ WITH DEADLY CONCENTRATION. I don't care if you spend 1 hour reading 1 article, you cannot quit until you are done with it. Once you are done with it, take a not-more-than 10 minutes break and start with the next article. And finally when you are done with the target number of articles for the day. Go straight to article one and look for the words that you didn't know or couldn't understand.
• Day 1- 3 - I want you to read any random 5 articles from websites like https://aeon.co, https://mix.com or maybe plain old https://medium.com
• Day 4 -6 - I want you to read 6 articles, and increase 1 article every 3 days.
• Day 7+ - I want you to time every article and take a note of your speed! I promise you, you will see a drastic improvement in just one week.
3.  Getting stuck studying the scary wordlist - You had a very limited time and you decided to spend a big part of it in memorizing 5000 words that you had rarely seen or used before, are you a thesaurus? No right? Then stop engaging in this stupidity. People often end up burned out and tired by the word list and they forget the importance of context! GRE Verbal section is all about context!

• Just go through 500-800 most frequently asked, and try to use each one of them in a conversation with yourself (Random brain chatter) you don't a mirror or a book, just think in your mind how would you use this world somewhere, and then compare what you thought with the actual usage. You can refer to plain old Barron's or Magoosh's word list for this.
• General Tip: If you can't find enough time, just skip the wordlist and stick to Part 2. RC will get you there!