Barron's GRE Verbal Workbook

 (4 customer reviews)

If you are taking the new GRE's,this workbook will do the job. Do every problems sets in the book and you will be set and ready to go. It has a glossary of all the words in the back, you don't need to memorize every single word. Work your way through the whole book, time your practice exams, and look up every new word you encounter. My verbal scores increased significantly after. I recommend this over princeton review book, problems in the book are too easy compared to the real exam. Obtain this verbal workbook asap!

I used Barron's GRE Verbal Workbook along with Essential Words for the GRE (Barron's GRE). I just completed my bachelor degree in architecture, so I hadn't been reading the kind of material that appears on the GRE in science, literature, psychology, and other fields in quite a while. The Barron's GRE Verbal Workbook really brought me up to speed in my reading skills. Also, my vocabulary was pretty rusty, but using these two books over a few months really improved it because many of the words I learned in one book were reinforced in the other...Read more

I found this book very helpful. It allows to practice each question type, one at a time. The only thing I didn't like is that answer explanations were useless. They basically repeat the question with the answer inserted in it and do not explain WHY, unlike some other workbooks I used.