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Kaplan GRE Exam Verbal Workbook (Kaplan Gre Verbal Workbook)

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I took my GRE in October and got 96% for Verbal. I think I owe it to this book (AND to Barron's Pass Key to the GRE). This book has a very helpful vocab list -- I especially like how they break down into which sets of words are most common, then next most common etc... I also found their analogies section and sentence completion section very helpful -- the 4 types of bridges idea for an analogy was next to revolutionary for me. Also learning that the answer choices for an analogy have to match the same order as the words in the analogy. I lived 27 years and NEVER knew that, I don't know how many times I've gotten questions wrong from having the correct relationship there but the answer words in the wrong order.

The other sections I didn't find too helpful, the reading comp. And their section on building your vocab starts with something like "read your whole life" haha, that was meaningless.

Although I'm only half-way through this workbook, I 've found it indespensable for any one wishing to increase their English vocabulary and especially for those akin to improve their verbal scores in the GRE. I've already managed to improve my own unofficial scores with the help of this book and I'm very confident that these improved scores will be reflected in the actual GRE. This is a highly recommended source!

This book was useful if you need a broad overview, and I like their layout better than Barrons. But basically they contain mostly the same info at least on the verbal part. If you have lots of time and want to work through everything in this book, you could certainly learn alot of vocab. And they have some good tips as well.

I used this workbook, along with the Kaplan verbal flashcards and the 2007 Kaplan Premier edition. I took the GRE 3 years ago without studying. I took it again this year, and using these materials, I increased my verbal score by 80 points (540 to 620!). The flashcards were the most helpful, as several of the words I learned showed up on the test. Study a lot, and you will do well.

This book features answers that are just plain wrong! The GRE tests subtleties of words and phrases and this book ignores them. If you can pick up with book used somewhere, I suppose it is good for basic practice, but don't count on it for your main method of review.

This book is not helpful at all. The definitions of some vocabularies are not exact, they can give some sort of confusion to the test takers. Even though this book provides some good groups of similar vocabularies, it is not that useful also because modern tendency of GRE is asking more the exact meaning of a vocabulary. It would be better to study the detail and exact definitions of vocabularies through some good dictionaries.

This book really gives a lot of great pointers on how to study for the GRE and it has math equations, word groups, root words as well other great study guides

The condition of the book was good, however I can not say the same thing for the content. Writing exercises are not really heplful and other exercises are almost the same as the writing part. I do not recomend this book.