GRE Prep Course with Software

Product Review

Comprehensive, Rigorous Prep for the GRE.

Every year students pay as much as $1,000 to test prep companies to prepare for the GRE. Now you can get the same preparation in a book. GRE Prep Course provides the equivalent of a 2-month, 50-hour course.

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

Features:

Math: Twenty-two chapters provide comprehensive review of all the math properties you need for the GRE.

Verbal: Develop the ability to spot places from which questions are likely to be drawn as you read a passage (pivotal words, counter-premises, etc.). Also, learn the 4000 essential GRE words.

Writing: Comprehensive analysis of the writing task, including writing techniques, punctuation, grammar, rhetoric, and style.

Mentor Exercises: These exercises provide hints, insight, and partial solutions to ease your transition from seeing GRE problems solved to solving them on your own.

Detailed solutions to hundreds of GRE questions!

Also includes test prep software!

Software Features:

Mentor Mode: In Mentor Mode, you are immediately told whether you answered a problem correctly, and you can immediately view a detailed solution of the problem.

Test Mode: In Test Mode, you can take a test timed and scored by the program.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(26 customer reviews)

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful

Worth it, September 29, 2002

Jennifer Usry "jenus80" (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GRE Prep Course with Software (Paperback)

Though several other reviewers seem to find this book mediocre at best, I found that it was very helpful in a lot of ways. The questions seemed a lot harder than actual questions on ETS practice tests as well as on the real GRE, so when it came to actually taking the test I felt that everything was pretty easy by comparison. My score was much better after having studied this book than it would have been without it. Granted, I did come across some wrong answers in problem explanations, but very few when considering the sizable quantity of practice questions in this book. The Quantitative lessons were the most helpful to me, as they provided in-depth reviews of all the concepts that are likely to be encountered in the exam, with practice problems for each concept. The logic sections were also very helpful, especially when it came to practicing how to concisely jot down the conditions of a problem and how to draw the right kinds of diagrams quickly. Finally, the verbal section...Read more

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

Great book but order way in advance, February 5, 2002

Martha Garduño (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GRE Prep Course with Software (Paperback)

This book is great, it has a lot of excercises but be sure to have enough time to study, at least 2 months, before the exam.Most of the exercises are of equal or high complexity as the actual exam.This is the book to study from.

31 of 35 people found the following review helpful

Buy something different, September 5, 2002

Katie Bell "mphkatie" (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GRE Prep Course with Software (Paperback)

This particular GRE review book is actually quite difficult to use and does not, I believe prepare you for actual GRE questions.
1. The anylytical or Logic portion of the book (Soon to become obsolete) is ridiculously easy, I scored 800 each time on all the tests in the book, and found they had no helpful strategies in the logic section. While I scored a 760 in Analytical, I did not find anything in this book remotely challenging when it came to test day...2. The Verbal section of the book does have a helpful vocabulary list, however, their one word definitions are not always entirely accurate in defining these words, thus on test day, you may come up against a word with two meanings such as Purchase (traction or to buy) or Slip (used by potters, or to fall, or an undergarment) and only know one. In addition, their questions for the reading interpretation are somewhat vague and really open to interpretation.
3. Math is my weak point. The math section was thorough...Read more