GRE Math Prep Course (Nova's GRE Prep Course)

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Comprehensive Prep for GRE Math.

Every year, students pay $1,000 and more to test prep companies to prepare for the math section of the GRE. Now you can get the same preparation in a book.

Although the GRE math section is difficult, it is very learnable. GRE Math Prep Course presents a thorough analysis of GRE math and introduces numerous analytic techniques that will help you immensely, not only on the GRE but in graduate school as well.

Features:

Comprehensive Review: Twenty-three chapters provide the most thorough review of GRE math available.

Practice: Includes 164 examples and more than 600 exercises! Arranged from easy to medium to hard to very hard.

Diagnostic Test: The diagnostic test measures your strengths and weaknesses and directs you to areas you need to study more.

Duals: These are pairs of similar problems in which only one property is different. They illustrate the process of creating GRE questions.

If your target is a 700+ score, this is the book!

  Please note that some students preparing for the GMAT have been buying the GRE Math Prep Course. We are pleased to announce that we publish two books expressly for the GMAT math section: GMAT Math Prep Course and GMAT Data Sufficiency Prep Course, both available here at Amazon.

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 (49 customer reviews)

117 of 122 people found the following review helpful

A GRE Book that won't have you cursing obscenities, September 7, 2010

real san diego reader (San Diego, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GRE Math Prep Course (Nova's GRE Prep Course) (Perfect Paperback)

This is the first GRE book that didn't infuriate me. Many other books are full of down-right stupid questions that are only difficult because they involve a great deal of tedious arithmetic (the average of the eight numbers in column A vs. the average of the nine numbers in column B). I've come across a book that assumed that I remember a bunch of unit conversions (how many feet in a mile, cups in a gallon), and one nasty book in particular (now out of print) that kept switching back and forth between integers and real numbers without specifying which set is being used. Still other books describe a bunch of "strategies" that are ridiculously time consuming and cannot be used realistically on the actual exam. Thankfully, this book had none of the faults I've just described. While there are some errors, they weren't as numerous as they are in most other GRE books.

The book is split up into over two dozen chapters, each chapter dealing with a specific type of problem such...Read more

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful

Extensive Math Review But Missing Some Key Points, December 6, 2010

Finite NY (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: GRE Math Prep Course (Nova's GRE Prep Course) (Perfect Paperback)

I bought this book as one of my final purchases for my GRE prep. It had been very highly rated and I needed a more intensive math review after purchasing GRE for Dummies, Cracking the GRE by Princeton and the Barrons 800 High Frequency Word List. The fact that the book separates the question levels of difficult is one of the better aspects of the book. The sheer number of questions to practice with is also very helpful.

However, there are still numerous flaws that left me unsatisfied. I found the reviews of many concepts to be lackluster at best, giving questions in the medium or hard sections with no preemptive preparation in the review part of the section. Also, I found numerous questions to be tediously full of problems that need more time to work on than should be necessary for a GRE question. Also, I found the types of questions themselves, while helpful to concept practice, not at all written in the same manner as the GRE questions you can typically find in the...Read more

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful

Thank goodness I found this book!!, August 22, 2010

Jaime Mae - See all my reviews

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This review is from: GRE Math Prep Course (Nova's GRE Prep Course) (Perfect Paperback)

This book is amazing!!!
I wouldnt have done well without it. I studied with Kaplan's math workbook And Kaplan is good, but it is pitiful compared to this one. This book covers way more things that ARE on the Gre that Kaplan did not. Also, it levels the questions so that you know what level question you are answering.. which is extremely helpful because you get a better look at the ballpark of questions you will be asked on the GRE. I am so thankful that I found this book... it was tremendously helpful!