Kaplan GRE Exam Advanced Math: Your Only Guide to an 800 (Perfect Score Series) [Paperback]

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Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; Original edition (October 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1607144972
• ISBN-13: 978-1607144977
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #421,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors to be a great study tool, September 23, 2009

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A. Jackson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kaplan GRE Exam Advanced Math: Your Only Guide to an 800 (Perfect Score Series) (Paperback)

I've already found 2 errors in the first 9 questions of the practice problems. I felt confident I was doing the problems correctly, but couldn't come up with an answer that matched the correct choices. When I finally gave up and looked at the explanations, the printed answers contained simple math errors (in problem #5 the square root of 2 times the square root of 2 equals 1 instead of 2, in problem #9 9+10+11=20 vs 30)

I had the same problem with the general Kaplan review book I bought. Don't they proof read these things?

I have not yet decided whether I'll return this. It's a big waste of study time to redo a problem 3 times looking for the right answer when it isn't actually listed, and you can't trust any of the explanations. That said, there are a good number of pracice problems at a higher level than I've seen in other books. And if you're trying to get an 800, you're probably comfortable enough with the basic math concepts to find the errors without getting confused (although it's still annoying and a waste of time).

Does anyone know of another book with the same level of practice problems?

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible and unhelpful, November 24, 2009

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mesclun (NYC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Kaplan GRE Exam Advanced Math: Your Only Guide to an 800 (Perfect Score Series) (Paperback)

This was a terrible book. As others have stated, it's filled with errors that waste your time and make you unwilling to trust any of the information. It also fails to address the issue of time, which is the biggest problem on the GRE--I mean, all the problems are doable if you have enough time...but there is no advice on practicing with these problems in a timed environment. And it is also focused almost entirely on the specific solution for each problem, rather than on general rules or strategy--other than what you already get in the regular Kaplan book. If you can buy this book for cheap and determine a good method for timed-testing, this could be helpful, but I can't really recommend this at all.

Here's a list of the mistakes I found:

p11 #21 - should be 27^n not 27n
p11 #22 - part of the problem is missing
p12 #27 "c=" missing
p17 #6 2^12 not 12^12
p18 #9 summation is wrong in explanation
p19 #20 8^5 not 85
p23 #35, should be negative not plus
p34 #2 add 4 not 5; also 2*4 = 8 not 28
p36 #11 "1" and "2" should be listed as exponents

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An editing travesty, November 28, 2009

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J. Donnelly - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kaplan GRE Exam Advanced Math: Your Only Guide to an 800 (Perfect Score Series) (Paperback)

I have been using this book to review my math and it has been pretty good at getting me to think. However the mistakes are torturous. From the other reviews, you can get the sense that this book was never proofread. After running through a section, I correct my answers with the key and miss enough to be very discouraged. I go through the explanations and realize that I did the problems correctly and the book is wrong. If I can find my receipt, I am going to take Kaplan up on the offer of a money back satisfaction guarantee directly from them. I recommend that you wait for a second edition.