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Gre Psychology: Graduate Record Examination in Psychology (Barron's How to Prepare for the Gre Psychology Graduate Record Examination in Psychology)

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This book explains some of what you need to know for the GRE but: 1) contains a lot of information that you don't need 2)explains only some of what you need and just lists the rest so you have to seek out another book and look that information up. I found Princeton Review to be much more helpful

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic areas that ETS expects you to have down. Its major strength is the diagnostic tests which effectively focus your review on your weak points. If, like me, you're prone to skip the less interesting stuff, the test results broken down by topic area provide excellent motivation to pay a little more attention! However, I would not recommend this as a sole source for GRE studying. You'll need a decent intro psych textbook (obviously) and some official test questions. The questions in this book's tests are not in ETS format. However, I found GRE Psychology a useful adjunct to my GRE preparation.

A very comprehensive volume that covers everything you're apt to run into on the exam--theories, definitions, famous and obscure psychologists and their work, statistical questions...taking the exam without studying this book is a foolish move. I put the questions and answers on audiotape and listen to it in the car during my 50-mile commute to school.

You should not be spending this much time on review. Barron's book is just an intro psyc text book minus the pictures. Look for something that reviews instead of trying to teach. This book was a waste of time and money. I got a 730, but it was no thanks to this books. Major concepts that were on the actual test were not in this book. Use an intro text book, ignore this book.

You will need a good psych intro book for reference, but this guide outlines all the major areas covered by the GRE. It had great review material, helped me to know which names I'd need to know for the exam, and was a very valuable study aid overall. I got a 760 on the subject test (98 percentile) which I owe in large part to Barrons, and now I'm going to a top 20 program in clinical psychology.

Barron's general GRE prep book was a great help, but their prep guide for the psychology test was more or less useless to me. I couldn't believe how bad some of the item writing was. I certainly hope the ETS people have better sense when it comes to writing items. I did WORSE on the practice tests after I did a week and a half of studying.

I found this book to be AWFUL! The Psychology review was filled with Tables and recommended you to look them all up in an intro to psyc book. I used this book for 1 week and bought 2 new books. I used Arco's GRE Psychology and the ETS Practicing to take the Psychology Test. These two were very useful. Arco's review was very comprehensive, without the minor details that are not covered on the test.