GRE Exam Vocabulary Flashcards (Paperback)

by Kaplan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Education; 2 edition (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419541943
• ISBN-13: 978-1419541940
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #129,139 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not flash cards, April 18, 2007

By	B. MCGROARTY (United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The content is good, but these aren't actually flash cards. It's a bound book with very thin pages and two words to each page. Studying with flashcards is best done by testing one's self with cards, slipping failures back into the deck for near-term review, and setting repeated successes aside. This isn't possible with a book.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars an okay product, but not as efficient as it could be, August 13, 2006

By	S. Dudek - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased last year's edition, where you bought an entire book (the same size as a regular GRE review book) which had nothing but pages full of pull-apart flashcards. I much prefered that format as you could actually tear the cards out and have small flashcards with all of the information on them. I do not like the flipbook method of studying vocabulary becuase then you begin to remember paterns, not definitions.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Different is not always bad, October 20, 2006

By	MsTiaLia (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews

When I saw this book in the store, I had the same thought as previous reviewers. I thought that I would rather have actual cards instead of words in a book. But it actually works pretty well for me. The book is designed such that you fold the corner of a page when you master the word. So, after I complete a certain number of words, I go back through them randomly, skipping some, but always going over the pages that are not folded.

The good thing about the words being in a book is that I can actually take all of the words with me. There is no way I could carry 500 flash cards and study in the car, at the doctor's office, etc.

Of course there is a chance that you will memorize patterns, but you can lessen that chance if you vary your study methods. Flashcards is never enough.