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Gre General Test (GRE Program)

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Let me put it this way: On the first practice test I got a 98% (790) in the analytical section. On the second, my results were 44% (500). Gee, that's a pretty big gap, especially for someone who does fairly complicated logic puzzles in under fifteen minutes. Either I'm going crazy (which is entirely possible) or this book is dreadfully uneven with the difficulty of its problems and its wording is vague (not to mention answers and explanations in the verbal section that are just plain WRONG even when I asked English instructors their opinion). Either way, I'm giving it one big fat star (which is one big fat star too many in my opinion).

I really can't imagine what the authors of this book were thinking. The tests they present are almost completely unlike the real GRE in question style, selection, and difficulty. A verbal test here, for instance, will have two reading passages crammed at the end, each of which is only a paragraph or two long and written at a high school level. The real GRE has much longer passages, which are far more complicated and include nuanced questions of intent and meaning. You won't find that here. Download POWERPREP from the GRE site and get the Princeton Review book. Those are tools with some real relevance to the GRE...