Gre: Practicing to Take the Psychology Test [Paperback]

Educational Testing Service (ETS) (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 69 pages
• Publisher: Educational Testing Serv; 3rd edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446395714
• ISBN-13: 978-0446395717
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #489,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Expensive since you can get a practice test from ETS online, May 22, 2004

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This review is from: Gre: Practicing to Take the Psychology Test (Paperback)

Its a good book in that you do receive a real GRE. However, ETS provides an online practice that has an exam. The best strategy is to take the online (pdf from gre.org) practice test and find out the concentration of questions and your level of comfort with the topics. The fields that you have most difficulty with will require more practice and memorization. After review of this material in your Intro Psych text and other category specific books (Cognitive, Developmental, Personality, Social, Behavioral, Stats and Neuro) take the Book test under timed conditions. The intevening period of time should wash out the information from the online test. Take that again. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! No better way of pumping up your scores. As with most GREs, if you take at least 4 or 5 practice (deliberate practice) tests, you will see that your scores should increase greatly.

The stats quesitons on the exam are NOT formidable though a recent stats course would help.

You should do fine (if you are a decent Psych undergrad) with a few weeks of review. If you have not had some of the requisite topical courses, you may want to review a little bit further than an Intro Psych text.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good practice, but don't assume it's an accurate predictor, May 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Gre: Practicing to Take the Psychology Test (Paperback)

Because this book if out of print it may be hard to find and/or people are asking ridicules prices for it. Keep in mind this book only contains ONE practice. When you sign up for the psych GRE you get one free one as well. Although it's nice to have an actual test to get a feel for the type of questions on the exam...don't assume that because it's an actual GRE test that it will provide you with an accurate indication of your score. I scored a 680 on this exam which was in the 90th percentile. However, on the actual exam I only scored a 600. Although I don't blame this book for "decreasing" my score.. just keep in mind that this is an OLD test and that because it's an old test a lot of the study aids (like Kaplan and Princeton Review) have designed their material with this exact test and these exact questions in mind, therefore giving you the impression that the test is easier than it is. I found the actual psych GREs to be MUCH harder than any of the practice tests ETS has put out. I recommend this book because it gives you a real feel for the exam and because any type of study material is going to be beneficial... however, keep in mind that your scores on this test will probably be much more inflated than the actual exam if you have spent time reading through study aids...as every single one of these questions has been answered throughly in retrospect by Kaplan and Princeton Review.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good practice, April 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Gre: Practicing to Take the Psychology Test (Paperback)

This book is good practice and accurately reflects the realGRE. Since it's written by the same people who write the test it givesa fair representation of the content. The only negative is that there is only one pracitce test.