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No batch, no fixed syllabus. Your mock and section scores decide how much of your time goes to Quant and how much to Verbal, and you work through it with Devmitra or Nitha directly. ₹5,000 a session, all taxes in.

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Kellogg MBA
GRE 328

"I had done two months of self-study before this. The verbal framework here was completely different. I stopped guessing."

Krithika
GRE Personal Tutoring
GRE 321

"I was stuck in Quant. I had the math. The issue was time. Three sessions changed how I approached every section."

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Why most GRE prep falls short

You're studying. The score isn't moving. Here's why.

Most GRE prep focuses on content: more vocabulary lists, more formulas. But content is rarely the problem for students who are already putting in the hours.

Problem 01

Vocabulary memorised. Context ignored.

You can recite 500 GRE words and still get Text Completion wrong, because the GRE tests how words behave in a sentence. That is the question you just tried.

Problem 02

Quant knowledge. Zero time management.

You know the concepts, but in a timed section you stall. Efficient test-taking is a separate skill, and almost nobody trains it explicitly. That is the 60 ± 3 question.

Problem 03

And you don't know which of the two is costing you more.

This is the one that wastes months. Without section-level scores you cannot tell whether your missing points are in Quant or Verbal, so you split your time evenly and under-invest in the section that is actually bleeding.

What you are actually buying

Your session mix is set by your mock scores.

A batch teaches everyone the same split. We look at where your points are actually going — and change the mix as your scores move.

Quant 152  ·  Verbal 165  →  317

Your Verbal is nearly where it needs to be, so almost every point you are missing sits in Quant. Most of your sessions go to Devmitra on timing and question recognition. Verbal gets one short block on Reading Comprehension pacing and nothing more, because nothing more is broken.

Quant 165  ·  Verbal 152  →  317

The same total score, the opposite problem. Nitha rebuilds how you read Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence from context, and Quant becomes maintenance. Same price a session, an entirely different programme.

You see the split, the number of sessions and the total before you pay for anything.

The system

You have the word lists. What you're missing is the system.

Most students who come to us have already done the flashcards. They know hundreds of words and still get questions wrong, because knowing a word and using it in a GRE sentence are two different skills. Here is what we do about that.

Most students also forget that Reading Comprehension and the AWA essay carry just as much weight on GRE Verbal as vocabulary does. We teach all three.

Here's how we teach GRE Verbal:

Most GRE word lists are alphabetical. Students start at A, push through B, and quit somewhere in C, with most of the important words still unlearned. We arrange the same words differently: highest-frequency first, in small installments, so you always know exactly what to learn today.

Day one is Lesson 1: ten ways to praise. Here it is, exactly as our students see it inside the course:

Lesson 1 · GRE Vocabulary Course
Ten ways to praise.
10 words3 stages~25 min
  • 01 · LearnRead each word, hear it spoken, and absorb the story behind it. No testing yet.
  • 02 · PracticeLight recall. Match, choose, recognise. You need 75% to move on.
  • 03 · TestReal recognition. Identify usage, distinguish near-synonyms. You need 85% to move on.
accoladeencomiumeulogizeextollaudvenerateexalt+3 more

Each lesson makes you prove what you just learned. You answer question after question on words that seem to mean the same thing, then clear a short test before the lesson ends. Knowing fewer words in this much detail beats knowing a hundred more vaguely. One question, straight from Lesson 1:

Practice · Lesson 1

Which word means to praise with formal, often religious, reverence?

  • A  extol
  • B  acclaim
  • C  venerate
  • D  lionize

All four mean praise. Extol is enthusiastic praise. Acclaim is public approval. Lionize is celebrity treatment. Venerate is kept for figures of moral or historical weight. The GRE expects you to know the difference. Flashcards will not get you there. This will.

Once you finish a block of lessons and their quizzes, you meet your verbal mentor one-on-one. Your mentor discusses GRE-style questions with you: why the wrong word tempted you, what pointed to the right one, and how the sentence was built.

That last part matters more than students realise: the GRE hides its clue in the construction of the sentence. Read the construction right, and the word follows.

After every session come practice tests, and the tests keep teaching. Every option in every question is defined, shown in a sentence, and explained. Each test also brings in words the lessons never covered, so your vocabulary grows even while being tested. Try one from the actual course:

Text Completion · From TC Test 1, Medium · Single blank

Although the novelist's prose style was widely regarded as _________, her plots were so intricately constructed that even readers who found the writing difficult could not put the books down.

  • A  straightforward
  • B  demanding
  • C  formulaic
  • D  celebrated
  • E  derivative

The clue is not the "although". It sits in the second half: readers "found the writing difficult". So the prose must be demanding.

"I had learnt lucid and pellucid as two separate flashcards, months apart, and never connected them. The lesson put them side by side and showed me the difference in one line. No word list ever did that for me."

Radhika · GRE Personal Tutoring student, on WhatsApp

This cycle runs through the whole program: lessons, session, practice tests, repeat. Every session covers every question format, including the triple-blank questions most students dread, right from your first session. What goes up is the difficulty.

Is this the kind of prep you have been looking for?

Two question types cost students the most: "select all that apply", where any number of options can be correct and there is no partial credit, and inference, where the trap answer sounds reasonable but is never actually said in the passage.

The fix starts before the questions do. Your mentor trains you on what to pick up while reading: the author's opinion, where the passage turns, which details exist only to support a claim. Read this way, and both question types open up, because you know where to look and what to eliminate.

Students treat the essay as an afterthought. Admissions committees use it as a check: it is the only writing they know you produced alone, under exam conditions. A low score can make them re-read your SOP and wonder who wrote it. A strong one backs up your whole application, and steadies it when your verbal score falls short.

It is also the easiest score to improve with feedback. Your mentor reads every essay and tells you what the argument misses, where the writing weakens, and what to fix next. Very few programs review essays at all. Here it is part of the syllabus, and our mentors coach students toward the top of the scale.

What you walk away with.

You stop guessing between the last two options, because you know what separates the words. Hard sentences stop scaring you, because you have a method for them. And you find your weak areas weeks before the exam, instead of inside it. That is what moves a verbal score.

Words taught the way the GRE tests them

The GRE never asks what a word means. It asks which word fits this sentence. That is the skill every lesson, session, and test here builds.

Tested before you forget

Every block of lessons ends in quizzes and a session with your mentor. You meet each word again before it fades, so remembering does not depend on willpower.

Someone watches your errors

Your mentor sees every quiz, every mock, and every essay. Your plan changes based on what you get wrong. Self-study can never give you that.

Start with the free diagnostic. Twenty minutes, and you will know exactly what is costing you marks. If it shows self-study will get you there, we will tell you that too.

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Our track record

Numbers earned since 2006 — 30,000+ students trained.

Since 2006
Helping students prepare for business school
30,000+
Students trained across GMAT, GRE and MBA
50+
Elite B-schools where alumni have enrolled
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Arun Jagannathan, Crackverbal founder, featured by Stanford University GSB Insights
Stanford University feature

India's only institute recognized by Stanford University.

Stanford GSB Insights featured Crackverbal founder Arun Jagannathan for his approach to preparing students for high-stakes academic tests. This is not a paid listing or a partnership. It is an editorial recognition.

The same approach that Stanford recognized is what your GRE mentors bring to every session. Built on logic, structure, and 15+ years of refining what actually produces results for students.

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Who teaches you

Two people. Not a rotating bench.

Every session you pay for is taught by one of these two. There is no junior faculty tier and no batch you get assigned to.

Devmitra Sen, Head of Academics at Crackverbal
Head of Academics — Quantitative Reasoning

Devmitra Sen

Devmitra turns test-prep overwhelm into a structured plan. She specialises in non-quant backgrounds — 12 years, 3,000+ students, one approach: structure first, confidence follows.

12+ years3,000+ studentsGRE Quant
LinkedIn Her methodology
Nitha Jayachandran, Head of Verbal at Crackverbal
Head of Content and Verbal Delivery

Nitha Jayachandran

Nitha approaches verbal the way a storyteller would. She helps students understand how GRE questions are designed, why traps exist, and what the test is actually measuring. The Text Completion question on this page is one of hers.

10+ years2,500+ studentsGRE Verbal + RC
LinkedIn Her methodology
Pricing

The price, and how the total gets decided.

₹5,000per session · all taxes included
One hourA little over when a question needs it, at no extra cost.
One-to-oneDevmitra for Quant, Nitha for Verbal. No junior tutors.
No batch datesSessions booked around your week. Start whenever you like.

How many sessions will I need?

Nobody can answer that before seeing your scores. We tell you the number, what each session covers and the total before you pay — and if you hit your target early, you stop.

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Twenty minutes, and it gives you a section-level breakdown.

How this compares

One-to-one vs a group batch vs doing it alone.

A batch is cheaper per hour and right for plenty of students. This is where the difference actually shows up, so you can tell which one you are.

Crackverbal one-to-one Group batch coaching Self-study
Who decides what you study ✓ Your mock scores do ~ A fixed syllabus does ✕ You do, with no section data
Your Quant–Verbal time split ✓ Set by your section scores ✕ Identical for everyone in the batch ✕ Usually split evenly by default
Who teaches your sessions ✓ Devmitra or Nitha, every session ~ Whoever is assigned to that batch ✕ Nobody
Pace ✓ Yours ✕ The batch's ~ Yours, with no feedback loop
Mock review ✓ Question by question with your mentor ~ Group doubt session ✕ Score report only
If you hit your target early ✓ You stop paying ✕ The package is already paid for ✓ Nothing to stop
MBA admissions help after the GRE ✓ In-house team available ✕ Test prep only ✕ Not available
Price ✓ ₹5,000 a session, taxes in ~ Cheaper per hour, fixed package ✓ Books only
Frequently asked questions

Questions we hear from GRE students like you.

₹5,000 per session, and that figure includes all taxes, so nothing is added at checkout. A session is one hour of one-to-one time with Devmitra or Nitha. Because the right number of sessions depends on your current score and the gap you need to close, tutoring is priced per session rather than as a fixed package.

We will not guess at it before seeing your mock and section scores, because the honest answer depends entirely on where your points are going. The order is: we look at your scores with you, and then we tell you the number of sessions, what each covers, and the total cost. You see all of that before you pay anything. If you reach your target score before using them all, you stop.

It is one-to-one. There is no cohort, no batch start date and no fixed weekend timetable to fit into. Every session is you and one mentor, scheduled around your week. If you are looking for a live batch program instead, our GMAT Live Online course runs that way, but GRE preparation at Crackverbal is one-to-one only.

Devmitra Sen for Quantitative Reasoning and Nitha Jayachandran for Verbal. Both lead the academic side of Crackverbal rather than teaching alongside a bench of junior faculty, and both have LinkedIn profiles and recorded methodology sessions linked on this page so you can see how they teach before you book.

By your mock and section scores, not by a standard syllabus. A student losing eight points in Quant and two in Verbal gets a very different programme from someone in the reverse position, and the split gets adjusted as your section scores move through the programme. This is the main thing one-to-one buys you over a batch, where the allocation is the same for everyone in the room.

Yes, and one-to-one is easier to do around a job than a batch is, because sessions are scheduled to your availability rather than to a fixed weekend slot. Most working students find that consistent study time of roughly eight to ten hours a week works better than trying to compress everything into weekends. We build a realistic plan around your week before you start.

For most working professionals and final-year students, eight to twelve weeks of steady effort is enough to build both Verbal and Quant skills, work through mock tests, and review the gaps with a mentor. The exact timeline depends on your starting score and how much time you can commit each week. A structured plan built around eight to ten hours a week usually outperforms an intense short-term push.

Flashcards help you recognise words. They do not help you work out how the GRE is using them. Our Verbal method teaches you to read context, tone and sentence structure to arrive at the correct word even when you have not seen it before. The Text Completion question on this page is a worked example, and the point of it is that the contrast word "although" is not the clue — the clue is the phrase telling you readers found the writing difficult. That matters most in Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence, where the answer depends on how a word fits the sentence rather than on its dictionary definition.

A strong background helps, but GRE Quant tests whether you can solve problems efficiently under a tight time limit, not just whether you can solve them. Many engineering and finance graduates score lower than expected because they use thorough but slow methods that do not survive a timed section. Coaching trains you to recognise question types quickly, pick the efficient approach, and finish with time to review. Across a full section that gap is often worth five to ten scaled points. How much of your programme goes to Quant is decided by your mock and section scores, so if Quant is not where your points are going, you will not be sold sessions on it.

The GRE is not easier than the GMAT. It tests different skills. The GRE puts more weight on vocabulary and reading comprehension in Verbal, while the GMAT Focus leans towards critical reasoning and data literacy. For MBA applications, most top programs including Harvard, ISB and INSEAD now accept both equally. The right test is the one that fits how you think, and taking a diagnostic for both is usually the clearest way to find out.

Your GRE prep starts with knowing where the points are going.

Take the free diagnostic first if you would rather not talk to anyone yet. If you have already taken it, or you want the plan and the number of sessions worked out with you, start here.

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