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: #6467 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Released on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

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Customer Reviews

Barron's GRE Guide Review
Wonderful book when you are starting to learn GRE. If you read through the book thoroughly you can easily go above 600+ in GRE verbal

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.