Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #822 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 443 pages

About the Author
Educational Testing Service is the world’s largest nonprofit institution devoted to measurement and research, primarily in the field of education. It is best known as the developer of admissions testing programs for college and graduate study, including the College Board’s SAT, the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Educational Testing Service is the only publisher of test preparation materials containing authentic test questions.

Customer Reviews

Opinion of professional test proctor: Waste of paper!
I am a test center administrator for a major university. I proctor GRE exams every day, and hear the feedback of hundreds of students. This prep book, published by ETS, is one of the WORST out there. It does a lousy job of content preparation. In my opinion, ETS is trying too hard to protect their exam. This prep guide does not focus on providing a solid review of exam content.

This book is a waste of paper. Spend your money on the Barron's, Kaplan, or Princeton Review GRE prep guides w/ CDs instead.

Best for Practice
I took a GRE prep course through my college and one requirement was the purchase of this book. It was critical to my studying, I would definitely not use this as a sole source. It is best used as a test practice book, to either practice the full tests or use the sections individually. There are not explanations for incorrect answers, true, but it's not really a prep book it's more like an accompaniment.

It's wonderful that you get to work with 10 real exams. This is exactly what they put out. For the people arguing that the actual test appeared harder thats because these tests are from 5-10 years ago. Of course, the test have become difficult over the years. This is one of the best supplements you can have for studying b/c unlike the disk the ETS gives you for signing up you have 10 tests to choose from, that's more than Princeton Review and Kaplan combined. Even in a Princeton course you only have access to 4 tests at the most.

Also, it's great for vocab because you get a chance to see what words are really used on the exam. I think it's definitely worth it. I would make sure to either take a prep course or purchase another prep book alongside this one for guidance. I only used it for test practice but the results were great. Practice does make perfect and unlike Kaplan & Princeton Review guides, which has to produce/create their own tests often resulting in study aides that are either too hard or too easy this gives you perfect simulation.

Good for practice, but has shortcomings.
I purchased this after getting through Barron's, Kaplan's and Princeton Review's GRE prep books. I found the ETS GRE Prep book to be useful in providing lots of practice questions [from actual test questions], but I found that the quantitative test questions were much, much easier than the actual questions I faced on the GRE [this is where the other prep books helped, as many of their questions were at a higher level of difficulty]. But, I rated this book three stars as I found the reading comprehension passages very helpful. The passages were dense enough in most instances to challenge my comprehension skills. The other parts of the verbal component were quite easy, much easier than those I found on the actual GRE.

In conclusion, the ETS GRE book makes for a good supplement if all you're looking for are practice questions before the actual exam, but it is insufficient if you plan on just studying this one book for the GRE.