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| Barron's GRE (Barron's How to Prepare for the Gre: Graduate Record Examination (Book Only)) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sharon Weiner Green, Ph.d. Ira K. Wolf
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Edition: 17
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Pages: 560
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 1
ISBN: 0764135414
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
EAN: 9780764135415
ASIN: 0764135414
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.
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 Helpful, but with other Guide Books November 24, 2008
I, like many others, needed a crash course on the math section of the GREs. I've taken the GRE before but my Math Score was still lacking and based on the 5-year rule, my scores expired. I decided to buy help books this time around. After reading other reviews, I decided to purchase this book with the Princeton Review, and on my own purchased the Kaplan GRE Math Workbook and Bob Miller's No-Nonsense Guide to the Math Section.
The Barron's book is really great. It has alot of extra math problems and helps explain things by section. Paired with the Princeton Review--I feel I understood the questions and the reasoning behind the answers a bit better. The Bob Miller's Math Workbook is also really really helpful. The problems are similar types of problems on the GRE and it provides a little bit more practice--and that is what you need when it comes to these math problems. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
The verbal section is a little excessive in the Barron's, but just right in the Princeton Review. Princeton Review lists the 100 most frequently used words on the GRE and it is really helpful. The Barron's book gives you 1000+ words, a mini-dictionary, and it becomes overwhelming. But still helpful. The Barron's provides 5 practice tests, which is really great, compared to the 2 that Princeton Review provides. The Kaplan GRE book is okay, not that great. And Bob Miller's book provides 6 BIG math practice sections. So if I were you, and you want to increase your math score...pick up the Barron's Guide, the Princeton Review, and the Bob Miller's review book for extra practice.
 Barron's GRE Guide Review August 2, 2008
Wonderful book when you are starting to learn GRE. If you read through the book thoroughly you can easily go above 600+ in GRE verbal
The old Barrons June 29, 2008
Where else would you prepare GRE from. I got it for the third geenration of my loved ones, as a gift for the GRE preparation. I couldnt think of any other title except the one that served me in my years. Only now it carries 2008 seal.
My favorite of the GRE prep books! June 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In preparing for the GRE, I did some research as to which prep books were user's favorites and then narrowed them down to the top 3: Barron's, Kaplan and Princeton Review, not necessarily in that order but it turned out that way for me. I used the Barron's GRE as my main prep book, in terms of memorising word lists, studying the basic math formulas, and applying math skills towards problem-solving. However, Barron's is not very helpful in terms of preparing for the essay component which didn't really matter that much since the essay component is the least important component of the GRE anyway. So for the purposes of preparing for the verbal and quantitative component, Barron's was adequate.
That being said, I would recommend supplementing Barron's GRE with at least two other prep books. I found Kaplan's and the Princeton Review prep books [with the CD-ROM] to be excellent resources in helping me develop familiarity with the CAT model. However, I place Kaplan above the Princeton Review as I found the Princeton Review's online access tools too cumbersome and not user-friendly. The CAT tests provided on both though were quite good.
All in all, Barron's GRE Prep [I got the one without the CD-ROM] is a handy study guide covering both verbal and quantitative how-tos. But, you will need some other supplements in order to get more practice tests done, as well as preparing for the essay component.
 Math solutions/tips not helpful at all... June 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
NOT for math practice!!
I own this book along with the Princeton Review "Cracking the GRE" book. I've used this book mainly for the math practice/help... I test fairly high on the verbal practice tests so I've been hitting the math practice hard (I can't say how the verbal part of this book is) . I'm NOT a math person. Luckily my husband IS. After working through the problems and looking at the explanations for the solutions in both books, we both agreed that this Barron's book will show you the mathmatically correct way to do things. However, the Princeton Review book will show you easier ways and quicker ways to do the same problem in a more understandable way for us non math people and it will help math leaning people look at the same problem differently so that they can finish it quicker. Sometimes the mathmatically correct way to do things is NOT the quickest or easiest... it would be easy to get hung up on doing a problem the "correct way", thereby wasting time, while the rest of us have read the Princeton Review guide and are using the tricks and tips that are much faster. It's the difference between trying to figure out 20% by first figuring out 10% and then adding the two and trying to multiply out large numbers in your head... the first way may not be the "correct way", but it can be 10X faster than doing it the "correct way". With this Barron's book, we were both left with the feeling that there MUST be a quicker and easier way to arrive at the same answer than is explained in the book. I feel that the practice questions are harder than Princeton Reviews, thereby preparing me for a more difficult test... I just wish that the explanations were clearer and better. If I didn't have someone to give me alternate ways to arrive at the answer than what is printed in this book, I think that this book would be a total waste. We also found a few errors in the practice questions, that didn't add to our confidence.
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