The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test [Paperback]

Educational Testing Service (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071700528 | ISBN-13: 978-0071700528 | Publication Date: December 15, 2011 | Edition: 1

Get expert advice on the GRE revised General Test from the test makers themselves!

Get ready for the new test debuting in August 2011! The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test with CD-ROM comes straight from Educational Testing Service (ETS)--the people who make the test. Filled with vital test-taking information, sample questions, a full-length actual GRE exams on CD, and ETS’s own preparation tips--this only official guide is the essential study resource you'll need for the exam.

Features:

• Complete coverage of all the brand-new test features and question types
• Authentic GRE questions and answers
• An actual GRE test on CD-ROM
• The test-makers' own strategies for scoring high

Topics include: Introducing the GRE Revised General Test, GRE Verbal Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions, GRE Quantitative Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning Practice, GRE Analytical Writing, GRE Math Review, Authentic GRE Practice Test

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About the Author

Educational Testing Service (ETS) is a private, nonprofit organization devoted to educational measurement and research, primarily through testing. ETS develops and administers millions of achievement and admissions tests each year in the United States and 180 other countries. These include the TOEFL, SAT®, GRE®, PRAXIS™ and other standardized tests.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 15, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071700528
• ISBN-13: 978-0071700528
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.9 x 10.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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98 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You'll Need To Look Elsewhere for real GRE Prep, April 9, 2011

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This review is from: The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test (Paperback)

This book is one of the earliest books available for the new revised GRE available in August of 2011. Most books are even weeks or months from even being released now and its already April of 2011. So in that regard, it was a valuable tool for people to get a jumpstart on the masses and see what is going on with this new test and what will be expected.

I loved the changes made to the reading comprehension sections. The book does detail all of the things that have changed from the old GRE. Getting this information straight from the test makers at least gives you confidence that they do know what they're doing.

An issue I had with the book is that it has review sections in math that glosses over an area and moves on. They mention that if you don't understand a concept or need more explanation, you will need to purchase some other book or review an old text on the subject. As I was working through the math section, I got an answer incorrect on a triangle problem. The problem was that when I went back to the triangle section, there wasn't any examples exactly explaining how to solve such a problem. This book does not provide an explanation for the review questions. They just give a list of answers. I think most of us learn by working a problem, then seeing where we went wrong in the process. It is a real drain to have to go back to another text to solve a problem. I had to go back and get my Barron's GRE book from last year to solve the problem. Barron's by the way has one of the most complete and almost too complete reveiws in math and vocabulary.

I took the test provided in the book and did pretty good. I will buy one of the other books when they come out in June or July and work through them and finally take the cd-rom version of the test in this book to see how I do. If you are looking for a good GRE book and it is already July or August, there are going to be books much better to choose from by this time.

Good luck on your GRE. I hope we all do well!!

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GRE revised test book, August 3, 2011

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Lizzy - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test (Paperback)

This book was helpful and accurately represented what was on the new GRE. The CD was especially helpful because the practice tests were in the exact format with identical on screen calculator and timers as the real test. After reviewing with the CD there were no surprises when I took the actual test. The practice tests are also very representative of the questions on the real test, I got almost the exact same score on my practice tests as I did on the real test. Overall it was helpful and I would recommend it to other test takers.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This shouldn't be your only GRE preparation book..., June 8, 2011

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Dr. Kent Chang (Cupertino, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test (Paperback)

I am tutoring students on the GRE and I believe that this book, although helpful, should not be the only GRE preparation book to use. I found that there are too many simple questions and not enough hard questions that will really make you well-prepared for the GRE exam. The solution explanations in this book can also be unclear at times. If you look at the explanation on page 196 in this book compared to the explanation on page 413 for problem 16 in other book " A+ Notes for GRE Revised General Test by Rong Yang", you can see that Rong Yang does a better job explaining the solution. Overall. this is a good preparation book, but I suggest using the A+ Notes for GRE Revised General Test book along with this book for the best preparation.