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Summary: No-nonsense Preparation for the test
Review: This book takes very straightforward approach. It explains what the test is looking for in the verbal area. It gives a review of that math used on the math portion. After that it's just tests and answers. For the student who is disciplined enough to take about 30 hours of study time taking the practice tests and evaluating their errors, this book is probably very helpful. The free practice software that ETS sends probably would have been more help to me because my main difficulty was with the computerized format-the fact that I couldn't go back and change my answers. On previous standardized tests I've taken, the questions get progressively harder. It gets my mind ready for the more challenging questions and gives me a sense of security being certain that I got at least some questions correct. With the computer format, it gives you harder questions straightaway until you miss one. This heightens the anxiety of taking the test immensely for me. When I see an easy one I think, "Oh no. What should have been the correct answer on the last problem!?" This is purely counterproductive, especially on a time-limited test like the GRE. I urge other students to sign up long in advance so that you have time to practice with the software. It took a month for my free ETS software to arrive. It arrived after I had taken the test. No matter how familiar you are with computers (I've been an electrical engineer for five years.), if you haven't taken a computerized standardized test, you need the software. If you're willing to devote a lot of time to taking practice tests, this book will help. Otherwise, it is a waste of money.
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Summary: The best thing one can review
Review: This is the true test, take them, see how you do, and judge your life appropriately. Unlike kaplan and princeton review this requires you to get the right answer, not recognize the wrong answers and through some tricks cajole the appropriate answer. Just take the tests and get all of the "difficult" questions correct and you'll be fine. The other books are a waste of your time. They give your erroneous definitions for words and silly little tricks to solve things. And don't worry about the solutions not being in this book, is it really hard to look something up in a dictionary? And if you can't do the math in here move to Mexico or some other place because you are pulling down the national average.
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