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Kaplan GMAT Verbal Workbook

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This is an excellent book ... by itself. The quality of the lessons, appendices and the rest of the material is great. The section on usage is very good, too.

However, if you have already purchased Kaplan's GMAT CAT with CD-Rom, then all the practice questions - 3 sets each for sentence correction, reading comprehension and critical reasoning - from this book (with explanations )are available on the CD-Rom. I, felt, sort of, cheated of my $$$.

In summary, buy this book only if you do not have the Kaplan GMAT CD-ROM. Save yourself some money. Don't spend your money twice for the same material!!

Having taken a couple of practice GMATs, I had the math down cold but needed some help on the verbal. I hadn't written an essay in about 7 years (since college). I bought this book and it paid off. I ended up acing the GMAT. To practice for the verbal, I ...

1) mercilessly drilled idioms
2) learned every verb tense and the proper use (from an English as a Second Language website)
3) did every problem in this book. drill, drill, drill.

I studied for about 40 hours, at least, but it was worth it. 760 total and a 5.0 on the AWA.

Good luck on GMAT!

This book is very helpful as long as what you're needing is additional practice to build up your performance and confidence for the verbal sections of the GMAT (note that it covers the Analytical Writing section as well, however it does not do so as well as it covers the other verbal sections). It takes you through each of the three types of verbal sections (Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction), with strategies on how to excel at each. But the basics you need for each can be found in the GMAT with CD-ROM book by Kaplan. Get this book only if you really need to improve in any of the three verbal sections, as you will be able to take a set of practice questions and three additional practice sets for each of them, followed by a comprehensive verbal section that should bring you up to speed even if your idioms and your grammar is a little rusty. Rounding up the book are precisely a Gramma Reference, a Guide to GMAT's most common idioms and a Guide to Usage and Style.

This is a no nonsense workbook that gives good strategies for many verbal sub section(critical reasoning, reading comprehension, senetence correction and yes the dreaded AWA) in GMAT. Explanations are given with very good examples. Practice tests are so far the best I have seen in many GMAT guides.
It has a good deal of reference material on grammar and idioms. Though the atrategies given for writing the essays are good, I didn't find them very clear initially. It took some time to digest that part.
Before going through it I had a sort of phobia for GMAT (and had actually postponed appearing GMAT for several years). No more. For me the benefits have been beyond just the GMAT. Now I am actually applying the techniques in my everyday reading at work.

This book is absolutely worth every penny that it cost. Considering how much you can get out of a quality MBA program, it pays to invest into getting into the best possible school.

This book is great for anyone who did well on the math sections of the SATs/GREs, but needed improvement on the verbal section because this book focuses specifically on that. While it provides great and practical good tips for the average test-taker to score higher, it is not a miracle worker. It isn't a quick fix, and will not double your score.

Having said that, I still consider this book a must have. You will be thankful that you used it. I was.

Good luck on your GMATs.

I first took the GMAT and got a 41 on the Verbal section. After using this book, I got a 47, and I credit most of my gain to this book. My main advice is to give yourself enough time to use the whole book the way they intended. I also recommend the Official Guide from ETS, which gives you loads of real questions.

I found this quite good. No match for this in the verbal section in the available book market.

I just had to prepare for the verbals and I think this was the book for me. It helped me reduce the number of mistakes for 15/41 to around 7/41.

I finally got 99 percentile on verbals.

This book really prepare test takers. Teach you what to look for in the verbal section to correctly answer every question type. Much better than the Official GMAT book which does not give any directions, just give you a bunch of questions.