Great for drilling AFTER you have learned strategies

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	• GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test 10th Edition (Practicing to Take the Gre General Test) Educational Testing Service Ets/Educational Testing Service, 2002 - 443 pages average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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Good for practice, but has shortcomings.

I purchased this after getting through Barron's, Kaplan's and Princeton Review's GRE prep books. I found the ETS GRE Prep book to be useful in providing lots of practice questions [from actual test questions], but I found that the quantitative test questions were much, much easier than the actual questions I faced on the GRE [this is where the other prep books helped, as many of their questions were at a higher level of difficulty]. But, I rated this book three stars as I found the reading comprehension passages very helpful. The passages were dense enough in most instances to challenge my comprehension skills. The other parts of the verbal component were quite easy, much easier than those I found on the actual GRE.

In conclusion, the ETS GRE book makes for a good supplement if all you're looking for are practice questions before the actual exam, but it is insufficient if you plan on just studying this one book for the GRE.

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Great for drilling AFTER you have learned strategies

These are REAL tests published by the test-makers. This is the best way to practice for the GRE once you have learned the Kaplan strategies. When I tutor my GRE students, we start with the Kaplan Comprehensive Program book to learn the skills and strategies, then practice with this book.

This book is written by the test-makers, so the first part of the book covers more material than is actually tested. I do not use this part of the book with my students, but the REAL tests are invaluable!

One problem with this book is that there are not explanations for each question. That would be because the test-makers aren't about to give away all their tricks and secrets! That's why it's important to study the strategies promoted by the companies that exist for the purpose of helping students to succeed on this test. (My choice is Kaplan.)

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Good complement, but certainly not enough

It is a good book because it has former GRE questions and the students can see the level of difficulty of each question. But needs to be complemented with a goood review of strategies and a much better math review.
One problem of this book is that the questions that presents are so old that it does not include new topics.

Best for Practice

I took a GRE prep course through my college and one requirement was the purchase of this book. It was critical to my studying, I would definitely not use this as a sole source. It is best used as a test practice book, to either practice the full tests or use the sections individually. There are not explanations for incorrect answers, true, but it's not really a prep book it's more like an accompaniment.

It's wonderful that you get to work with 10 real exams. This is exactly what they put out. For the people arguing that the actual test appeared harder thats because these tests are from 5-10 years ago. Of course, the test have become difficult over the years. This is one of the best supplements you can have for studying b/c unlike the disk the ETS gives you for signing up you have 10 tests to choose from, that's more than Princeton Review and Kaplan combined. Even in a Princeton course you only have access to 4 tests at the most.

Also, it's great for vocab because you get a chance to see what words are really used on the exam. I think it's definitely worth it. I would make sure to either take a prep course or purchase another prep book alongside this one for guidance. I only used it for test practice but the results were great. Practice does make perfect and unlike Kaplan & Princeton Review guides, which has to produce/create their own tests often resulting in study aides that are either too hard or too easy this gives you perfect simulation.

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The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test consists of verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing sections. This book is the only test prep guide that contains questions and topics from actual tests administered worldwide. It contains verbal and quantitative questions from seven actual GRE General Tests and sample analytical writing topics from the complete pool of topics for the analytical writing measure. It includes information about the structure of the test, answering procedures, explanations of correct answers for verbal and quantitative questions, sample writing responses with scores, scoring information, a math review, and test-taking strategies.

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