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Literature in English Test (Practicing to Take the GRE)

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The first clue to the usefulness of the book is to look at the publisher. This is from ETS which runs the GRE. Although the company wants to assist you, I don't believe it is in its best interest to tell you how to beat the test.

First, they give you general information about the test such as how it is administered and what the general percentage breakdown is (so many interpretation questions, so many diagnostic questions....). Then, they give you a section with sample questions of the different question types they have. Lastly, they give you two sample tests.

The problem I have with this is that there is no explanation of the answers. You can check to see if you got it correct (and check how your score ranks), but you can not see why a particular answer is correct or wrong. For that reason, I would recommend other titles for studying purposes.

The main positive for buying this book is that the questions are coming from from the creator of the test. You know that by taking this, you are seeing questions similar to the ones on the test.