GRE: Answers to the Real Essay Questions: Everything You Need to Write a Top-Notch GRE Essay (Peterson's GRE Answers to the Real Essay Questions) [Paperback]

Mark Alan Stewart (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0768928214 | ISBN-13: 978-0768928211 | Publication Date: August 13, 2009 | Edition: 3

With just a few minutes to analyze, organize, outline, and compose your essay responses, you need all the preparation you can get before test day.GRE Answers to the Real Essay Questionsprovides sample responses from more than 200 actual GRE essay questions, along with a comprehensive review of what test graders expect from your writing.

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About the Author

Mark Alan Stewart is an attorney and a preeminent authority and top-selling author on the subject of graduate-level entrance exams. Mr. Stewart served as consultant to schools in the University of California and California State University systems in graduate-level entrance exam programs. His books on LSAT, GRE and GMAT preparation continue to be top sellers among aspiring law, business, and graduate students. His other Peterson’s titles for graduate-level admission include30 Days to the GMAT; GRE-LSAT Logic Workbook; GMAT Answers to the Real Essay Questions; GRE-LSAT-GMAT-MCAT Reading Comprehension Workbook; Words for Smart Test Takers; Math for Smart Test Takers;andPerfect Personal Statements—Law, Business, Medical, Graduate School.

Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Peterson's; 3 edition (August 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0768928214
• ISBN-13: 978-0768928211
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exam-oriented, January 31, 2010

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This review is from: GRE: Answers to the Real Essay Questions: Everything You Need to Write a Top-Notch GRE Essay (Peterson's GRE Answers to the Real Essay Questions) (Paperback)

A practical read for the two writing sections. Well-written examples throughout the whole book with useful tactics included. A vast number of samples covering all realms tested. Not a page is wasted. An honest and well-thought publish. The author saves pages by shortening real issue and argument topics into key words-- presented in a way for easy study, quick reminder of your previous read, and to search for the original, complete question from the offical pool. Each essay/ arguement sample is grouped accroding to each tactic introduced. A great guide for those who feel lost in scaning the official pools and dreaded to have a start. Handy and light. Convenient to be carried around. The book would be a waste for you if you memorize the passages because it only serve as a guide to show you how good a piece of work, answering the GRE official questions, can be. The vast number of samples in the book is enough to give you a "feel" on what quality is, and what tone should be used. You might want to have some extra, classic readings on the different realms of interest, e.g. education, science... so that you will have your own opinions on the issues being raised, and will not copy the author's ones.


I would suggest the author to further categorize the topics into different realms, i.e. education, politics, science and art, etc.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Overview, October 14, 2010

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This review is from: GRE: Answers to the Real Essay Questions: Everything You Need to Write a Top-Notch GRE Essay (Peterson's GRE Answers to the Real Essay Questions) (Paperback)

This book provides a great overview for the essay portion of the GRE.

The beginning of the book explains what you should expect and what you should or should not do. It also goes into what the readers are looking for and how you should consider writing your essays.

The author provides a plethora of essays to go through. Of course, I think unless you have endless amounts of time, it would be tedious to go through all of them. However, I think a good idea would be scan through and if you see a topic that you're scratching your head about, it would be a good idea to read through the essay. If you want to know what the exact issue statement was for reference, you can always go to the GRE's official website and go to the issue topic list. Once you're there, you can always "ctrl+f" the bolded phrase they provide for you in the book.

Generally, I would recommend that one goes through the issue essays more than the argument essays. The latter seem much easier to write, whereas the former can be rather difficult. Why? The issue topics vary greatly and what is very easy to one person may be incredibly difficult for another. My only concern with some of the issue essays in this book is that some of them seem way too over prepared---almost to the point of "fluff." Otherwise, I found it to be a valuable tool.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, March 22, 2010

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The best way to learn to write is to immerse oneself in good writing. This book allows you to do that! It has great recommendations for how to improve your score on the essays. It makes the analysis essay a piece of cake and explains the logical flaws that the GRE test makers are fond of. I'll write more once I get my score :) I anticipate that I did quite well.