500 Advanced Words, 1st Edition: Manhattan GRE Vocabulary Flash Cards

 (3 customer reviews)

These are a great match to the Essential Words cards, and they even start the numbering on these at 500 so you don't mix the two sets up if you don't want to. Here is my review of the essential words:

I bought the Kaplan AND these Manhattan GRE flashcards. The Manhattan are better, and here is why:

Basically they are both the same in content. The Kapplan have a nice pronunciation guide, which is the only benefit they have over these.

The Kaplan cards (NOT THESE MANHATTAN CARDS) are cheap. They are printed on thin paper, and they are physically pretty small. Also I wish the printing on the back were upside-down from how it is now (both brands are like this). These Manhattan cards are bigger, printed on card stock but still reasonably thin, and come with a nice key-ring that fits through holes. With these Manhattan cards you load up the key ring, and blast through about 50, maybe stash them in a large pocket and get to them later, or throw them in...Read more

Good choice of words in the deck. The examples are sometimes inadequate to form a good memory link. Adding colors would help train the mind to groups of similar words.

easy way to learn vocab words for the test! bought these after my friend got an incredibly high score; i asked her how, she said "flash cards."