Product Description

This 17th edition of Barron’s GRE manual reflects recent Graduate Record Exams and presents six full-length model exams with all questions answered and explained. Tests are similar to recent actual GREs in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. The manual also reviews all GRE test topics: antonym, analogy, and sentence-completion questions, reading comprehension, analytical writing, quantitative comparison questions, data interpretation, and math.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6021 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Released on: 2007-08-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

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Customer Reviews

The old Barrons
Where else would you prepare GRE from. I got it for the third geenration of my loved ones, as a gift for the GRE preparation. I couldnt think of any other title except the one that served me in my years. Only now it carries 2008 seal.

My favorite of the GRE prep books!
In preparing for the GRE, I did some research as to which prep books were user's favorites and then narrowed them down to the top 3: Barron's, Kaplan and Princeton Review, not necessarily in that order but it turned out that way for me. I used the Barron's GRE as my main prep book, in terms of memorising word lists, studying the basic math formulas, and applying math skills towards problem-solving. However, Barron's is not very helpful in terms of preparing for the essay component which didn't really matter that much since the essay component is the least important component of the GRE anyway. So for the purposes of preparing for the verbal and quantitative component, Barron's was adequate.

That being said, I would recommend supplementing Barron's GRE with at least two other prep books. I found Kaplan's and the Princeton Review prep books [with the CD-ROM] to be excellent resources in helping me develop familiarity with the CAT model. However, I place Kaplan above the Princeton Review as I found the Princeton Review's online access tools too cumbersome and not user-friendly. The CAT tests provided on both though were quite good.

All in all, Barron's GRE Prep [I got the one without the CD-ROM] is a handy study guide covering both verbal and quantitative how-tos. But, you will need some other supplements in order to get more practice tests done, as well as preparing for the essay component.

Math solutions/tips not helpful at all...
NOT for math practice!!

I own this book along with the Princeton Review "Cracking the GRE" book. I've used this book mainly for the math practice/help... I test fairly high on the verbal practice tests so I've been hitting the math practice hard (I can't say how the verbal part of this book is) . I'm NOT a math person. Luckily my husband IS. After working through the problems and looking at the explanations for the solutions in both books, we both agreed that this Barron's book will show you the mathmatically correct way to do things. However, the Princeton Review book will show you easier ways and quicker ways to do the same problem in a more understandable way for us non math people and it will help math leaning people look at the same problem differently so that they can finish it quicker. Sometimes the mathmatically correct way to do things is NOT the quickest or easiest... it would be easy to get hung up on doing a problem the "correct way", thereby wasting time, while the rest of us have read the Princeton Review guide and are using the tricks and tips that are much faster. It's the difference between trying to figure out 20% by first figuring out 10% and then adding the two and trying to multiply out large numbers in your head... the first way may not be the "correct way", but it can be 10X faster than doing it the "correct way". With this Barron's book, we were both left with the feeling that there MUST be a quicker and easier way to arrive at the same answer than is explained in the book. I feel that the practice questions are harder than Princeton Reviews, thereby preparing me for a more difficult test... I just wish that the explanations were clearer and better. If I didn't have someone to give me alternate ways to arrive at the answer than what is printed in this book, I think that this book would be a total waste. We also found a few errors in the practice questions, that didn't add to our confidence.