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This manual’s new edition offers prospective graduate students intensive preparation for the GRE Graduate Record Exam. Opening chapters provide a perspective on the exam with a GRE overview, advice on effective test-taking tactics, and a diagnostic test to help students pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses. Subsequent chapters review all GRE test areas and include practice exercises for the following topics: antonym, analogy, and sentence-completion questions, reading comprehension, vocabulary, analytical writing, discrete quantitative questions, quantitative comparison questions, data interpretation questions, and math. The math review includes questions in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. The manual’s concluding section presents five full-length model exams that reflect recent GREs in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. All questions are answered and explained. The book comes with an enclosed CD-ROM that presents two brand-new computer-adaptive model GREs. The computer-adaptive tests (or CATs) simulate actual test-taking conditions, and provide automatic scoring, as well as answers and explanations for all questions.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2853 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780764195945
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

My personal favorite out of the popular GRE books
I studied every day for one month and scored 720 on verbal and 760 on quant. I used the Kaplan GRE Exam 2010 Premier Live Online Book, Kaplan's 500 vocab flashcards, Princeton's latest prep book, and Barron's guide with the CD (did not attend any of those exorbitantly priced classes). IMO, Barron's provided the best prep-- it had the most in-depth coverage. I especially liked that the book included plenty of practice problems and a comprehensive word bank. The guide's main weakness was its practice tests. Kaplan/Princeton provided more realistic Computer Adaptive Tests. FYI: For practice exams that best mimic the real thing, check out the powerprep software (offered for FREE by ETS, the diabolical company that generates GREs). Good luck!!

Not computer adaptive
The actual book is useful - although I would recommend picking up a second book and comparing them when studying. But I bought this because it was supposed to come with a CD that had two Computer-Adaptive tests on it. Well, there ARE two tests, but they do not adapt to your answers. The tests simply have 28 verbal questions, 30 math questions, and the two essays. At the end it tells you your raw score (how many you got wrong w/ explanations for why they're wrong), then you check your raw score against a table for your actual score.

The scores seem a little off too. For example, 28 correct math questions gets you an 800, but 27 correct questions get you only a 720? So if you miss more than one you are doomed to <700 score, seems too harsh. I have seen others where you can miss 4 on the quantitative and still get a 700. So are the questions too easy on this test, are they using a harder grading scale, what's going on?

I will admit though that it was useful to try the test digitally first, at least to get a feel for using scrap paper instead of writing on a paper test. Just was expecting a lot more, I mean, I don't understand- It wouldn't have been hard to make the CD a lot more useful.

In short:
- Book is ok, but would use with other study-guides
- Only contains 2 computer tests
- Computer tests do NOT adapt to right/wrong answers or get harder like the real GRE
- Scoring might be off
- CD tests can be useful for learning format of digital test


Later Edit: The more that I use both Barron's and Princeton Review, I have to say that Princeton Review is better - particularly on the practice tests. As I mentioned, Barron's has the CD with two questionable tests on it, Princeton Review has a set of online tests you can take with more accurate scoring, the option to have your writing samples graded ($6/each), and the test looks/feels closer to the actual GRE than the other one. Doing it over again, I would have probably avoided Barron's.

Good book
Very good book for preparing for GRE general. The only things I didn't like about it are the lengthy answers and somehow unstructured tips and tricks.