" It's basically like acting as a compiler and finding type mismatch errors." This is exactly how I answered many questions in the Verbal section. (Score: 800

" It's basically like acting as a compiler and finding type mismatch errors." This is exactly how I answered many questions in the Verbal section. (Score: 800 (verbal) 790 (quant) 6.0 (writing)). as for knowing difficult words, I found that reading a lot helps (vs memorizing word lists). You've seen most words in context before, which helps to distinguish between similar words with different shades of meaning and so on.