Product Description

The only book of its kind available today, this popular handbook features comprehensive math review for the major graduate and business school exams. It helps sharpen the understanding of basic and complex math concepts to achieve high scores.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146938 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 450 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent content, awful layout
I must say this book is much more thorough than the Kaplan math review. My one complaint is that the thickness and layout of the book is a bit overwhelming at times and makes it that much more difficult to tackle the coursework. The Kaplan book is more user-friendly and makes it much easier to get through the work. If you don't have a lot of time do the Kaplan book because it's easier to get through the information faster because the layout is more compact. BUT this book is a bit more thorough so if you can ignore the thickness of the book because of super wide margins and such (great for good scratch work but makes it seem more overwhelming than it really is).

Excellent review of basic concepts and some medium difficulty problems

I bought this book as a refresher for a math exam I will be taking in about a month. It starts you off with "simpler" topics and moves onto topics which require more calculations and maybe two or three steps to solve.

Overall, a great review book. I will keep this book (and not resell it, lol) because I feel, in the future, if I ever need a refresher, this book will be it.

Although this book does not cover other topics (combinations / permutations), it is still a good resource to refresh your memory.

I think that proper exam preparation requires far more than a single resource. This is a good book to give you the fundamentals but you preparation should definitely consist of more than one review guide and certainly a ton of other resources for "reputable" problems - not simple ones, etc.

Too general to help on the GRE.
This book does a good job of teaching you basic math. It does help if you want to relearn math from scratch with progressive difficulty. It does not however help to prepare you specifically for the math questions encountered on the GRE. The practice questions in the book do a poor job of emulating GRE math questions which are not straight forward. I did every practice question in the book over three months and raised my quantitative score marginally. I studied a math review from a major test prep company and saw a much more appreciable gain using their specific advice. Using this book ended up being a tremendous waste of my financial resources and time. This book is a good math review but poor test prep - avoid it.