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Title: Kaplan GRE Verbal Workbook, 2nd Edition by Kaplan ISBN: 0-7432-3059-0 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Very difficult to raise your score significantly....
Comment: Ok. It is a good book, helpful, and will make you a living dictionary but only if you have 1 year to give the test. I bought it, studied from it, checked it many times during a month and a half and got a 550 (73%). Considering my first language is not English it is a respectable score, but not significantly higher than the first time I took a practice test (probably 50 points or so).
The truth is that no book will improve your score significantly in a short time. The Verbal part of the test is tough, especially for foreigners, so don't expect miracles. It is not like Maths where you can learn some tricks by practice. With the Verbal section you need time, not practice.
Buy it and judge for yourself. It will help but not make you a Verbal Section God.
Now, if you have 6 o more months..... maybe
Rating: 3
Summary: Good book but not an Encyclopedia of Verbal
Comment: I bought this book hoping to get some boosts in verbal section of GRE. Well, it did but not big enough. I got only 50 points of increase. Altough, 50 points is quite an achievement but not enough to pass my personal limit. For verbal section, the key is to memorize and eat up as many words as possible. This book do provide SOME words, but not enough. For words I would prefer to go with Barron's or use free vocabulary builder software, eg. guru's wordlist.
To ace verbal section will need alot of hardwork, especially for foreigners like me. This book will provide complementary assistant but surely not the bible for verbal section. One thing that I like about this book is it categorizes words according to it meaning, positive or negative, and typical meaning, such as there are many words have the same meaning, this book categorize them.
As always Kaplan has the simple strategy to overcome problems. I like the sentence completion stretegy to paraphrase and words elimination. All in all, if you have time (more than 3 months of preparation) I think this book will increase your score alot, then again maybe it's not because of this book, but because you have memorize so many words.
Rating: 3
Summary: Lots to study, little to show
Comment: Though I have to admit my score was probably better on the verbal section having studied this book than if I hadn't, I must say it's a lot of work for such a pittance toward your score. For those who aren't applying to English related programs (or others that specifically require higher verbal scores) I'd highly recommend buying a more general book and understanding the methods for eliminating wrong answer choices. This, along with practicing the test format on the ETS software and other Kaplan software helped me much more than the HOURS and HOURS I spent memorizing a 2,500 word vocab list, only to get in the testing center and discover plenty of words I had never heard.
Though the book does include a list of root words and the top 200 words in context (used in sentences, synonyms, etc.) beyond that it simply ranks the remaining 2,300 as equally important. The lists included which group the words into synonymous categories such as "criticize" or "praise" are also too general to be effective if you're working on the harder questions the book is intended to get you to, simply because those questions invariably include multiple antonyms or analogies that could apply and that require you to know the exact nuances of the word. Probably a better idea is to buy flashcards, which are grouped into high, medium, and low frequency words, so you can buy how many ever sets you will have time to study.
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Title: Kaplan GRE Exam 2004 with CD-ROM by Kaplan ISBN: 0743241428 Publisher: Kaplan Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: Kaplan GRE & GMAT Exams Math Workbook, Third Edition by Kaplan ISBN: 0743233549 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Cracking the GRE with Sample Tests on CD-ROM, 2004 Edition by Princeton Review ISBN: 0375763228 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Word Smart for the GRE by Princeton Review ISBN: 0375763368 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Verbal Workout for the GRE Exam by Princeton Review ISBN: 067977890X Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 08 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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