Product Description

Students planning to take the Graduate Record Exam will find six full-length model tests with answers and explanations in this up-to-date manual. They will also find intensive test topic reviews covering antonym questions, analogy questions, sentence completion, reading comprehension, vocabulary, analytical writing, quantitative comparison, data interpretation, and math. A 3,500-word master vocabulary list with definitions is supplemented with a GRE high-frequency word list. The CD-ROM enclosed with the book offers a computer-adaptive model GRE test that is similar in structure to the actual GRE test. All questions on the CD-ROM are answered and explained, and exam results are scored automatically.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43187 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

From the Back Cover
[back cover]
Choose Barron’s Method for Success on the GRE 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.