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| Barron's GRE: Graduate Record Examination | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sharon Weiner Green, Ira K. Wolf
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (37 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2683
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 17
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0764179497
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
EAN: 9780764179495
ASIN: 0764179497
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
Release Date: August 1, 2007
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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. The enclosed CD-ROM contains computerized versions of the book?s subject reviews and practice tests.
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 The book is never wrong January 2, 2009
I have been working my way through this book over the past few weeks, largely focusing on the quantitative portions. To date, I've completed about 80% of all of the available quant questions, and I can say with complete certainty that the book is never wrong.
I've been wrong a few times, but it has always, without exception, been due to an oversight or error on my part and not a mistake in the text. I can't say that about very many preparation books that I've used in the past, and I've taken probably 20+ certification, licensing, and other examination tests in the last 10 years.
If you have the time and are willing to make an effort to work your way through the problem sets with this book, you will be rewarded. I scored a 590/740 on my first GRE attempt with only a partial scan through this book, and I'm shooting for a 700/800 on my second attempt in the next few weeks. With the quality of review this book provides, I'm definitely optimistic.
Advice December 31, 2008
Hi,
I am from Saudi Arabia.
I am advising you to prepare for GRE math test by start with "Kaplan GRE exam math workbook" after you finish from this book you will gain the basic knowledge of mathematics and make you more faster to solve math problems, then it best to you to start with math section in "Barron's GRE preparation" because the Barron book has advanced math and difficult questions which help you to become familiar with difficult questions in real GRE test.
For verbal preparation, I think the Barron is enough.
This is the best method for GRE test preparation.
Good Luck
Barron's is the secret to success in GRE December 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is a good investment to have a Barron's for GRE preparation. The book is well organized and the content is updated with each edition to match the current GRE. The Math is good but it is the verbal part that makes it worth having.
Almost-40 perspective November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just took the GRE and am positive I got the verbal score I got because I reviewed the vocabulary lists in Barron's. If you review all the words and really learn the ones noted as appearing most frequently, you will be well-prepared for verbal. I crammed vocabulary in the last 10-14 days and got a 650 on verbal, which is more than I need for my program.
I did not find Barron's as helpful with the quantitative section. Having not seen math in neary 20 years, I had a lot of reviewing to do. I found the organization of the math chapters confusing, and the explanations incomprehensible at first. I bought GRE for Dummies and used that to review math, then used Barron's to supplement and to have more practice questions. The math review on the ETS GRE website is also good.
I don't know what the deal was with the practice tests from Barron's, but my scores on those were very low in comparison to the two you get from ETS when you register for the GRE. My scores using the GRE-provided practice tests were much more in line with my actual. I was feeling very discouraged after taking the Barron's practice tests, but I'm happy with my actual scores.
The best of gre prep books November 1, 2008
Of the GRE prep books that I bought or checked out from my local library, this was by far the best and most comprehensive. My recommendation would be to use this book for reviewing the concepts and as a vocabulary builder, then use the GRE Powerprep Software to take the practice tests. GRE Powerprep can be downloaded free from the ETS website.
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