Product Description

Updated to reflect the most recent Graduate Record Exams, this manual presents six full-length model tests with answers and explanations. It also offers intensive subject review in all test topics, which include antonym questions, analogy questions, sentence completion, reading comprehension, vocabulary, analytical writing, quantitative comparison, data interpretation, and mathematics. The all-important vocabulary review contains both a GRE high-frequency word list and a 3,500 master word list with definitions.

The CD-ROM presents a test that is unique to each test-taker (computer adaptive), based on the way its first question is answered. All of its model test questions are answered and explained, and exam results are scored automatically.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #201564 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

From the Back Cover
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE
GRE TEST
GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATION
15TH EDITION
WITH CD?ROM

Model Exams Closely
Reflect the Actual
Computer-Based Test

In-Depth Preparation Includes
Six full-length model exams, including a diagnostic test
All questions answered and explained
Practice and review in all test areas
Intensive vocabulary review featuring a 3,500 word vocabulary-building list

Enclosed CD-ROM
Simulates Test Conditions
Contains a full-length computer-adaptive test

Customer Reviews

Not worth the time or money
I bought this book to review for the GRE after being out of school for four years. I liked it well enough through the verbal section, but verbal has always been my strong suit. Then I got to the math section, and I ABSOLUTELY HATE this book. For one, the way the reviews are divided up are illogical. They begin with geometry and review basic principles of shapes, but don't explain how to solve anything within those shapes until 3 or 4 chapters later. There is no easy way to follow the pagination (e.g. "I'll flip to section J") so you waste a ton of time digging for the review. Even worse, the math "explanations" assume that you remember far too much, and they skip entire parts of their processes, leaving you to ask "How the heck did they get from this to that?"

What also annoys me is the book contradicts itself; they spend 1 chapter on tactics where they stress "Don't spend too much time on this," but another stressing "Be sure you look for all the ways the test will try to trick you." So then every question you start to answer, you're paranoid that you're being tricked. Also, they stress that 0 is neither positive nor negative, and yet in one of the questions that asks for all the POSITIVE intergers between two particular numbers, it says "Don't forget that 0 is an integer!" Finally, they give a review section but then do not limit the practice questions to what you reviewed in that section, so rather than help you, the book just keeps putting the test farther out of reach and making you feel more hopeless.

I do not recommend this book, and as someone who works in educational publishing, I could write my own book about why this one is terrible. You're better off using the test prep materials from GRE.org.

Verbal OK, Aweful Math
This book's verbal section is well organized and will definitely help you in the real GRE's. However, Mr. Barron clearly has no understanding of the GRE Math. The graph questions are simply aweful and do not reflect the real GRE questions whatsoever. Moreover, the grammer on Math questions is extremely sloppy, often leading to obvious confusions about what the questions ask. If you are trying to score perfect on the math like I am, this book will only frustrate you with its consistenly aweful graph questions and grammer ambiguities.

Great Prep Book
I took the GRE in August of 2007 and this book did an excellent job in preparing me for the exam. It had plenty of Practice problems as well as several practice exams including a CD with a simulated computer based exam. I have recommend to anyone that I have met that is preparing to take the GRE.