Kaplan GRE (Graduate Record Exam) Math Workbook, Sixth Edition [Paperback]

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 6th Workbook edition (September 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1427795045
• ISBN-13: 978-1427795045
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #737,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #75 in Books > Education & Reference > Education > Test Guides - Graduate & Professional > Graduate Preparation

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Use this book for astounding results!, October 2, 2007

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This review is from: Kaplan GRE (Graduate Record Exam) Math Workbook, Sixth Edition (Paperback)

I bought this book in an attempt to review high school math concepts that I hadn't used in over a decade. It far exceeded my expectations. There are chapters for basic review of each of the math concepts tested on the GRE--and most helpful, at the end of the book, there are 3 chapters that combine all the concepts into problem solving questions exactly like those that are likely to appear on the test iteself. Furthermore, the explanations are clear and easy to understand. I took the GRE last week and was stunned when I saw my math scores. I have already recommended this book to friends who are long out of high school!

50 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Shouldn't have started with this..., January 19, 2008

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Anon (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kaplan GRE (Graduate Record Exam) Math Workbook, Sixth Edition (Paperback)

This book didn't really work for me. One of the things that frustrated me most was that the information provided in the chapters (which is really long and which I read all of) didn't prepare me much at all for the practice questions/tests or for the questions I saw on the actual GRE. I spent practically all of my allotted study time reading these long chapters thinking they would fill me in on what I don't know about math (which is a lot), but really they just cover the most basic things in the GRE-impractical order of theme (arithmetic, algebra, geometry), without giving you a clue how to decide what skills to use on the more complex problems of the GRE (fine, I understand how to use FOIL, but I have no idea how to figure out when to use it on the test). Another problem is that the explanations in the answer key are hard to understand (the jump between the difficulty level of the chapter information and the problems/explanations in most of the chapters is so great it seems like they weren't written together at all), and there are also mistakes in the answer key (#7 in the lines and angles test, for example). I also found it annoying that the author of the chapters seems more concerned with providing his/her version of a solid background in basic GRE-level math than with actually preparing us for the test (for example, insisting on using math terms instead of plain English in situations where plain English would work just as well, or including unnecessary information - on page 35, "you'll never actually have to calculate the standard deviation on test day, but here's how it's calculated...," etc.). In retrospect, I really wish I had started with the free GRE Powerprep software and its Math Review, which is a 69-page free pdp file. What I used of Kaplan's Premier Edition book/CD also seemed pretty good. Maybe after all of that, if I'd had months to study, the difficult practice questions in this math workbook could have been handy. Reading it from the beginning like I did, though, was a terrible waste of my time.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated, August 21, 2008

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This review is from: Kaplan GRE (Graduate Record Exam) Math Workbook, Sixth Edition (Paperback)

I strongly feel that some of the reviews of this book posted here are too harsh. Judging from a few of the comments, it seems that some might expect this to prepare them for the GRE Math Subject Test - which is very different from this book's intention, which is to prepare one for the math section of the General Test. The level of difficulty of the problems is not too hard - if you're looking to score a 800, this may not be the book for you - but it's perfect for those of us struggling to get over the 650 mark. The practice problems, for the most part, realistically resemble what one might encounter on the acutal test, and there are only a few GRE-tested math subjects that don't appear in this book. In just over a week of studying primarily with this book, I went from practice tests in the mid-600's range to a 720 on the actual test, so it definitely seemed to be a good investment.