Kaplan GRE 1999-2000 with CD-ROM [Paperback]

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ISBN-10: 0684856689 | ISBN-13: 978-0684856681 | Publication Date: March 1, 1999 | Edition: Bk&CD Rom

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* 5 Practice Tests, including 4 computer-adaptive tests with detailed explanations

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan; Bk&CD Rom edition (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684856689
• ISBN-13: 978-0684856681
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,757,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It works but Kaplan is a little too frilly, December 4, 1999

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Richard Fink - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kaplan GRE 1999-2000 with CD-ROM (Paperback)

The Kaplan book/CD-ROM helped me increase my GRE score by 300+ points. I was pretty impressed. The CD-ROM comes with tutorials (that teach you the strategies in the book) and a multitude of tests. A couple of things that I didn't like about the CD-ROM include: 1) The tutorials try too hard to be cute and cool rather than making the most of your time; and 2) The section tests (verbal, quantitative, analytical) don't give tangible feedback after you're finished (i.e. you don't know what your GRE score would have been for that section). But, hey, my scores are up by a significant chunk of change so I can't complain.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very much worth it if you're willing to devote the time., September 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kaplan GRE 1999-2000 with CD-ROM (Paperback)

The Kaplan GRE 1999-2000 with CD-ROM is a great product and is very much worth buying. The GRE is not an easy exam and, no matter what materials you buy or how much you spend on them, preparation is going to take TIME. Obviously, if you start preparing the day before the test, you're going to get scr*wed. Maybe negative reviews come from people who weren't willing to spend any time with the exercises or got too impatient once they got started and saw how far they still had to go. Give it a few weeks and it does work. It increased my score by about 300 points (avg 100/section). And no, I don't work for Kaplan.

The presentation and layout are creatively done and both the book and the software are full of useful info and exercises. The work is divided up into small pieces so you can go at your own pace. They tell you tips and tricks so you can outsmart the questions, and they review basic concepts like math and vocabulary. There is a limited number of possible types of questions they can put on these tests, so once you know the types, you've seen anything they can throw at you.

In preparing for the GRE, I used both this book and the ETS book "GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test," and both were helpful in different ways. The Kaplan questions can be a little more difficult than the ETS questions, which is good because it gets you ready for some of the toughest material the real thing can offer.

No matter which book(s) you end up buying, my advice is just to take as many practice tests as you can. After having taken a whole lot of GREs, when I got to the real thing I wasn't at all nervous (which really felt weird, because I usually am). Half the benefit comes in being able to get really fast at answering the questions, which only repetition can do. Your confidence will increase with experience, as well as your score. If I'm sounding like a commercial, maybe it's because with the help of books like this one, I got a perfect score on one section of the real thing, so I really believe in it.

So why am I saying all this? Well, the GRE is a b*tch to have to take, but we all have to do it if we want to get to grad school, and I think we need all the help we can get. This book helps, and it's a lot cheaper than the full course Kaplan offers (though I've heard it's good if you can afford it).

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A comparison of two GRE books..., December 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kaplan GRE 1999-2000 with CD-ROM (Paperback)

After reviewing the material in "Cracking the GRE 2000" by Princeton Review, I felt slightly ill at ease about my upcoming exam. I bought the "Kaplan GRE 1999-2000", and found it to be more thorough and better organized than the Princeton Review book. If you're going to buy only one book, I'd suggest that you buy this one.

I especially like how the vocabulary is grouped by category, instead of one big list. I found it much easier to learn the words in a little group than in a large, unorganized list.