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Released: 2004-06-29

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Are you ready for the GRE Exam? You will be.

Kaplan's GRE with CD-ROM 2005 Edition comes complete with a comprehensive review of all the material on the exam, plus Kaplan's proven test-taking strategies to help maximize your score. This powerful combination is a highly effective way for you to score higher on the GRE and make yourself competitive for graduate school admissions.

Succeed on the computer-adaptive GRE with Kaplan's exclusive computer test-taking strategies.

Prepare with hundreds of practice questions to build your skills in the critical content areas of the GRE.

Practice with our challenging, full-length GRE, complete with a detailed explanation for every answer.

Score Higher with effective strategies and advice from Kaplan's expert instructors.

Even more practice online!

Special CD-ROM Features Include:
• 3 computer-adaptive practice tests
• 12 section-length practice tests
• In-depth review of GRE math concepts
• Personalized study plan
• More than 700 flash cards
• 7 question-type tutorials

For Windows®: Windows® 98, 98SE, NT 4.0, 2000, ME, XP, Pentium® 266 MHz, 15 MB hard disk space, 640 x 480 thousands of colors (millions recommended), 4x CD-ROM. Note: An Internet connection is required for the Web features of the program.

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Kaplan GRE Exam 2005 With CD-ROM

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 2004-06-29
Label: Kaplan Publishing
Studio: Kaplan Publishing
ISBN: 0743251709
Average Customer Review: based on 21 reviews
Sales Rank in Books: #450371

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

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Summary: Easy to use! 2006-01-19
Comment: I really liked the CD-Rom that came with this book. It has you take a diagnostic test and then helps you plan a course of study, dependant on how much time you have before your test date. It also has dorky games that were much-needed relief from the drudgery of test-prep. This book and the Cliffs Notes math prep really helped me boost my score, and I did very well on the actual test.

0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

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Summary: Kaplan Review 2005-10-03
Comment: Book appears adequate to the task of GRE prep. Kaplan is generally the benchmark for prep books. We'll see how the test goes.

0 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

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Summary: great 2005-09-20
Comment: I was pleased with how quickly I received my order and at such a low price. I would buy from this seller again.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

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Summary: Excellent CD, book could be better 2005-09-02
Comment: Kaplan's GRE book, as many other reviewers have noted, is considerably more annoying and less comprehensive in its coverage than Barron's "How to prepare for the GRE test". Although the book is an impressive 352 pages long, much of the space on those pages is blank or taken up by facile "tips" such as "Your opinion of the test doesn't matter. Your score does." (No, really?)

Despite announcing at the beginning of of chapter 1 that it will cover "practically everything that's ever on the GRE", both the verbal and maths sections are weak compared to other GRE prep books and software on the market, with fewer examples that tend to be on the easy side. There are some notable exceptions - Kaplan's verbal tests on the CD threw some words at me that were way more obscure than anything that came up on the actual GRE, and there were a few quite difficult reading comp questions. Having said that, those who are already getting verbal scores in the 600s and are aiming higher will find Kaplan's word lists inadequate and should not be mislead by the book's assertion that knowing the general sense of a word is okay - for the harder questions on the GRE you need to know the exact meaning.

However, if you're after a top score and money is not an issue, this book is probably worth buying solely for the CD. The CD has 3 full length tests (including analytical writing) which are a pretty good simulation of the real thing, as well as 6 additional verbal and quantitative tests. Having recently taken the GRE, I can say that doing these tests was extremely helpful, partly for the content (all the answers for the non-CAT tests are worked so that you can see where you went wrong), but mostly because the tests are both computer based and punishingly timed. For me, one of the biggest challenges was learning when to keep working at a question and when to guess and move on before I ran out of time. I also found the CD's verbal and math lessons quite useful. While they are thinner on concrete content than Barron's book, the tutorials are often quite funny and include genuinely useful strategies and ways of thinking about problems that I found helpful on the actual test. There is also less posturing and shameless Kaplan-self-promotion on the CD than in the book.

Despite the fact that the book's tone got on my nerves, the CD formed an integral part of my GRE prep program, along with Barron's book and the ETS issued powerprep software. I ended up getting 800 verbal and 770 quantitative - there's no such thing as too many practice tests!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

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Summary: Much worse than Barron's 2005-08-12
Comment: A complete waste of money. Not of time, because it is so short that you can master it in one week.

I wrote a review for Barron's, which is better and cheaper.

Maybe the best is the CD, but I already had it, so buying it has not been an aid for me. I haven't tried the Barron's CD, so I cannot compare them.

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