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Barron's GRE: Graduate Record Examination | 
| Authors: Sharon Weiner Green, Ira K. Wolf
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $34.99
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 3238
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
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
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Product Description
This 17th edition of Barrons 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 books subject reviews and practice tests.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Fabulous book & CD-ROM!!!! January 12, 2008
63 out of 65 found this review helpful
At age 51, I was applying to grad school, and had to face the GRE. The English/writing part was no problem, but I had done badly in algebra in 9th grade, and never had trig at all. I had to learn it all in ONE MONTH. This book came through for me. It has very clear explanations of all key math points. I did all the practice problems in the book, pushing myself a little further every day. When I'd gotten through all the math, I tried a practice test. Only got a 250. I had the knowledge, but not the speed. That's where the CD-ROM came in. I took 2 practice tests a day, and slowly got my speed up. (Each time you do the practice tests, they are different. Now and then, there was a question I'd had before, but not often enough to significantly boost my score.) By the time I took the real test, I was getting in the 600s on the practice tests. I had figured out some strategies. Finally, I took the real thing, and got a 720 on both sections, for a total of 1440! I owe it all to the excellent math tutorial and examples in the book, and ESPECIALLY, to the real-time practice tests on the CD-ROM. I just cannot rave enough about this book!!
 Find another book! November 4, 2007
56 out of 64 found this review helpful
After going through a number of different GRE books, I find this to be the worst by far. Will it help you? Sure! But it's not going to help you nearly as much as, say, the Kaplan book. Whereas the Kaplan book works you through many of the though processes necessary to do well on the GRE, the Barron's book just gives you a few examples. Where the Kaplan book explains (perhaps to excess) the reasoning behind each and every question, including on the electronic practice tests, the Barron's book has explanations like "The answer is C." ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? What's the point in even having an explanation section when all you put is that? Even worse, the so-called Computer Adaptive Practice Test will give you the same questions more than once in the SAME test. Stay away. Use a better resource and you'll fair much better in the end.
Great electronic materials October 2, 2007
23 out of 27 found this review helpful
I bought this book more for the CD than anything else. I never read the book or used their methods, I only used the diagnostic and computer adaptive tests on the CD. In that respect, they were very good. Barron's did a wonderful job recreating the computer-adaptive test environment, and there were no surprises when I went to take the GRE.
OK for the basics September 25, 2007
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book is good for people who need a general review, but aren't necessarily aiming for the topmost scores. This was one of several GRE prep books/CDs I ordered. The writing style is very basic and down-to-earth; it assumes you know next to nothing about math or taking tests. A couple other books (esp. the Princeton Review) had more sophisticated techniques that I found helpful.
I found the software a bit ugly. The graphs on the quantitative practice problems were much more difficult to read than the actual GRE was, and the interface was a little clunky. Still, it's good for additional content review.
Really good thorough test prep September 15, 2007
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book is really really thorough and works well if you plan on studying well ahead of time. There are sections for each type of math problem that appears on the actual test and this was what I found most helpful. I went through each of the specific sections because math was a weakness for me and I wound up getting a 660 in the quantitative section. There is an extensive list of vocabulary words and several sections of review for the verbal section of the exam. Studying the high frequency words was helpful. The tips and hints that are included are great for helping you learn how to take the test and to save time. The amount of time for the test is fairly limited and the book shows you how to do the least amount of work to come to the correct answer. I studied using this book and I received a 1320.
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