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Peterson's Gmat Success 2000

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I just began it with the first two chapters and found that I could hardly get it through. There seem some errors in the book and the tests differ from the real ETS tests so much! If you have a lot of money, try to get other books instead of this one. Don't waste your time on it.

I took the GMAT yesterday and I wish I had read these reviews beforehand!

The questions in the verbal section were, as others have noted, EXTREMELY arbitrary. I was consistently scoring dismally low (55-65%) on the practice exams, but achieved a ranking in the ninety-first percentile for the actual exam.

On the other hand, the focus of the math questions made me think it would be easier than it actually was, and I was somewhat unprepared -- only seventy-fifth percentile for the actual exam!

I'm donating mine to the library because the newest one they have is from 1997, but I'm writing inside the cover first -- telling everyone to go buy a different book!

This is a very...book and the questions are so easy and simple. It might be ok if you are in the 500-650 range, but if you want more, go for Kaplan and Princeton Review.

The tests in this books are pathetic - I was not able to understand a lot of critical reasoning questioning, let alone answer them (fyi, my GRE anlytical score is 760/800). The introduction to the verbal section was somewhat useful, but the practice tests will really dampen your spirits.