Product Description

Word Smart for the GRE will help you build your vocabulary and boost your GRE verbal scores. It provides you with successful strategies for learning new words as well as proven techniques for scoring higher on the GRE Verbal exam. It also includes

·The GRE Hit Parade: the words most frequently tested on the exam
·Quick quizzes and a final exam
·Secondary definitions to help you avoid tricks and traps on the GRE

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28464 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-03
• Released on: 2007-07-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful
This book goes that extra mile that I needed. I used this book as a supplement to a Princeton Review GRE prep and found it at times better than the text book from my course. This book uses the words in context which is helpful in memorizing.

Not much of an improvement in GRE score
First of all, the GRE is the most ridiculous test ever created. In no way does it measure your intelligence, nor is it a sound device for determining your success in graduate school... But enough of that.
My verbal score was very low the first time I took the GRE (330). So I decided to give this book a try, seeing it had some of the better reviews.
I memorized every word in this book. I would estimate nearly 1,000 words. With the many hours spent preparing to retake the test, I was anticipating a fairly significant increase in my score.
Only ONE word of the approximate 1,000 words I studied was on the test. I guess this book can be hit or miss, considering the various forms of the GRE and the adaptive features.
Needless to say, when my score only increased from 330 to 350 in the verbal section I was a little distraught. Don't waste your time.

Excellent
This test prep book is designed to help build up one's vocabulary in preparation for the GRE. The math on the GRE is of the same level as the SATs, but, as the book explains, the creators of the GRE figure you should have been working on your vocabulary during your undergraduate years.

The book offers several helpful tools for learning new words, and picks a list of words that are most often employed on the test. This is much better than studying a dictionary. It also provides sentences to give examples of how the words are used, etc.

This is a great book, and has been very helpful for me.