Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary in a Box

Comment: Bought these cards to study for the GRE general test. I haven't taken the test yet, so I can't comment on how many of these words showed up on the test. But as for the cards themselves, they seem to be pretty good. I knew 30-35% of the words before-hand, but that still left hundreds of words to learn. There is a good variety of words in the cards, but the definitions were definitely lacking. They seemed to all be 3-4 word definitions made up by the author, rather than dictionary definitions. Sometimes I agreed with them, sometimes they seemed really wacky. And the synonyms were pretty vague as well, sometimes barely relating.

The card stock was somewhat light. These aren't thick index card stock, but they aren't super thin either. Good enough, but sometimes the cards get stuck together and you don't even notice.

Overall they are good, with a good variety of words. Hopefully they help me out on the test

Comment: After I took the GRE the first time I realized I need to expand my vocabulary. These flash cards were soooo helpful. I studied about 50/day and mastered them in about 10 days. The only thing I wish they had on them were anatonyms.

Comment: I was pleasantly surprised when I took the GRE to find that the words I studied in these 500 flash cards were on many of the test questions (and those words in the answer choices ended up being the right answer). I would definitely recommend this - it worked well for me and I wouldn't have been able to score near as high as I did without the flash cards.

Comment: These vocab cars are great. They are nice quality: they have the definition, a sample sentence, part of speech, and synonyms. Hopefully they help when I take the GRE.

Comment: I bought a variety of GRE study materials, and the Kaplan cards were my least favorite. The words are good, but all that is provided is a simple definition. The Barron's flashcards have definitions, antonyms, a sample sentence completion and a sample analogy. The Kaplan cards were far more simple, which some people might prefer. I happen to prefer more thorough cards, so I was disappointed with these. The cards themselves are very small (roughly the size of the Chance and Community Chest cards in Monopoly) and are very, very thin. I guess some people might like how small they are, but I would have preferred something sturdier. Overall, there were too many deficiencies for these cards to be useful to me and I would not recommend them.