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| Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
Buy New: $23.10
You Save: $11.90 (34%)
Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 198
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1419552066
Dewey Decimal Number: 378
EAN: 9781419552069
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Premier option not really worth the extra $$ September 19, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this edition primarily because I wanted the online options and the cd-rom extras. However, both of those have fallen short of my expectations. The internet site isn't as "personalized" as they make it out to be. The "guided study plan" is just a generic "syllabus" that isn't very helpful, and some of the links to study guides don't even work. I thought the diagnostic test would give me specific areas to work on but instead it's just the same as a practice test that gives you a score and reviews the answers but nothing more.
It's also not plainly stated the the cd rom DOES NOT WORK ON A MAC. In 2008 this seems like an unacceptable format for a book like this that makes you pay extra for the cd features.
The study guide itself is pretty good, with good tips and techniques for getting through the test, and the verbal and math workbooks have also been useful for more specific areas of review, but you can get the same thing from the non-premier edition.
 Effective and helpful August 28, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm going to start my third year of college soon and have already registered to take the GRE. This book is a MUST HAVE because ETS has changed the format of the GRE and this book covers all the changes. The book contains a lot of strategies that I could have figured out for myself...but the practice problems and tests are very useful. This is a priceless resource if you want to score high because they give you a list of the most common vocabulary words that appear on the GRE...I'm sure nobody wants to randomly memorize words from a dictionary.
The best foundation for GRE prep September 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My biggest worry about this product was that perhaps the practice tests would be contrived and undiagnostic of actual GRE performance. However, I took the actual GRE this morning and was pleasantly surprised to find that my scores were roughly the same as the scores that I had achieved on the practice tests provided with this guide--I'm impressed!
I would recommend this product as the foundation for any GRE test prep. Not all of the tips they provide are brilliant; you'll be able to pick and choose which ones you find helpful and which ones you find needlessly cumbersome. However, it provides a good overview of the typical GRE vocab and math problems and, if you're like me, you'll be grateful (and a little embarrassed) when they point out blatantly obvious tips that you hadn't previously thought of (e.g., creating a verbal bridge to join analogy terms).
Of course, I recommend using other products to supplement the material in this guide. The free GRE Powerprep math review is a good reinroduction to basic math concepts if you're rusty (I went through it prior to starting on this book). I also used Kaplan's "GRE Exam Vocabulary in a Box", as well as the vocabulary hit list from The Princeton Review's "Cracking the GRE". Using these products, I was able to obtain an extremely high verbal score and a decent quantitative score. If you want a perfect quantitative score, you may want to go a bit deeper than I did. However, the products that I've mentioned should be enough to get you a verbal score in the high 90s.
Excellent August 13, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an excellent prep book for the actual gre. Their vocab and math prep workbooks are also excellent.
 Skip it! Online Services Inaccessible, Customer Service Nonexistent! September 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bought the book and tried to jump into the Quick Start Guide by registering online and taking the Diagnostic Quiz. But alas, the online registration failed, error message: Invalid code. So I called the customer service number supplied, and as I write this, I've been on hold for one hour, eight minutes, and still counting. Either save your money and buy a cheaper book without the "premier" online and CD extras, or try someone else's version that might actually work.
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