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Title: How to Prepare for the GRE Test with CD-ROM by Sharon Weiner Green, Ira Ph.D. Wolf ISBN: 0-7641-7629-3 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent prep guide
Comment: I just took the GRE and used only this book + the essay-writing materials on the GRE website to prepare. Running through the tutorials and exercises on CD is very valuable, since you get used to the question formats, directions & styles. It also familiarizes you with the computer interface, which could be a major stumbling block if you're not used to it and the adaptive testing style. I found the math on the actual test a bit more difficult than what was on the CD, but that may end up factored into the percentile ranks when I get my scores.
Overall, I found this to be comprehensive and purely focused on the content and format of the test (not marketing, seminar-plugging, 'tricks' and other distractions), with some nice strategies for difficult question types, pacing and other essentials. One week with this book helped me get a 750 verbal, 740 math. Go for it & best of luck! ;)
Rating: 4
Summary: most thorough available
Comment: I have used nearly every book available to study for the GRE, and this is the most complete one. It is also one of the least annoying.
It has a huge word list divided between 300 most frequent, and 3300 next most frequent. Other than taking practice tests, memorizing tons of words is the best way to significantly improve your verbal score, tedious though it may be. (Besides, most of them are good to know anyway.)
It has a very extensive math review. The math review is quite long, and teaches you the almost all of the math you will need to know for the test, plus of course strategies designed to save time, and do problems more simply, geared toward the style of problems on the test. Furthermore, the practice problems in the book are sort of cleverly designed to teach you more about the material, make you realize certain tricky little things about certain mathematical relationships.
It is not annoying like Kaplan, (which mentions the word 'Kaplan' about thirty-eight times per paragraph) or Princeton Review, which try to focus on 'beating' or 'cracking' the GRE. You cannot beat or crack something designed by a bunch of PhDs to measure raw knowledge. This book is for people willing to put in serious amounts of time, with a significant result. Personally, I would prefer assiduous use of this book over one of those expensive classes even.
However, HERE IS THE ANNOYING AND UNSCRUPULOUS PART OF THIS BOOK: ON THE CD ROM, THE 'DIAGNOSTIC TEST' SCORING SYSTEM VERSUS THE SCORING SYSTEM OF THE 'COMPUTER AIDED TEST' ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU THINK YOU HAVE IMPROVED YOUR SCORE MORE THAN YOU HAVE.
By this I mean, they give you a lower score on their diagnostic test, which you take in the beginning, say 560 on the math, than you would get on their computer aided test (the one that is supposed to most accurately imitate the GRE) which you take when you are done studying, , which would be say 670, with the same amount and type of answers correct. This means that you take the diagnostic test, study with their book, then take their CAT, and think, "Wow, this book really helped my score! I am about to rock that GRE" When really, they rigged the test scores that way. (I know this because I saved both for the end.)
I still don't know which one is closer to the score on the real GRE, which I am about to take. But it seems to me that the lower score is the more accurate one, and the CAT score they give potentially gives false confidence. For example, I scored 800 twice on their CAT (and only 710 on the diagnostic). There is no way in hell that I am going to get 800 on the GRE. (By the way, dont feel jealous - I suck at the math.)
Also, it is my strong suspician that their Computer Aided test does not work like the one on the GRE. The GRE one gives slightly more difficult if you answer correctly, slightly less difficult if you answer incorrectly. This one definitely did not seem to do that.
Nevertheless, this did seem to be the best book around.
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Title: GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test by Educational Testing Service, Educational Testing Services ISBN: 0886852129 Publisher: Educational Testing Serv Pub. Date: 31 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Taking the GRE Writing Assessment : by Tim Avants ISBN: 0595265855 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The GRE Test for Dummies, Fifth Edition by Suzee Vlk ISBN: 0764554735 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Kaplan GRE Exam 2004 with CD-ROM by Kaplan ISBN: 0743241428 Publisher: Kaplan Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: The Ultimate Math Refresher for the GRE, GMAT, and SAT by Lighthouse Review Inc, Lighthouse Review ISBN: 0967759404 Publisher: Lighthouse Review, Inc. Pub. Date: 31 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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