Verbal Workout for the GRE Exam (Princeton Review) [Paperback]

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Publication Date: July 8, 1997 | ISBN-10: 067977890X | ISBN-13: 978-0679778905

GRE Verbal Workout is the only book on the market devoted exclusively to raising students'  scores on the demanding verbal section of the GRE


Features proven techniques for acing the analogy, reading comprehension, antonym, and  sentence completion sections of the test
Contains the Hit Parade--a computer-generated list of more than 300 words that most frequently appear on the GRE

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GRE Verbal Workout is the only book on the market devoted exclusively to raising students'  scores on the demanding verbal section of the GRE


Features proven techniques for acing the analogy, reading comprehension, antonym, and  sentence completion sections of the test
Contains the Hit Parade--a computer-generated list of more than 300 words that most frequently appear on the GRE

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Review (July 8, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067977890X
• ISBN-13: 978-0679778905
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,360,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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61 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Effective techniques, learnable in a few weeks, December 10, 1999

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Karl Papadantonakis (Ithaca, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Verbal Workout for the GRE Exam (Princeton Review) (Paperback)

As a result of using this book, my GRE verbal score improved from 250 (1%ile) to 610 (86%ile) in one month. The GRE has nothing to do with what you learned in college, and everything to do with the techniques outlined in this book. Learn how to get the reading-comp questions right without actually reading the passages. Learn how to get the analogies and even antonyms right without knowing most of the words. Each chapter of the book is geared to a particular type of question. Each chapter starts by explaining how you can go wrong, and then guides you through techniques with many carefully chosen practice examples, giving you great confidence and speed on the real GRE. If you plan on taking the GRE, you must have this book because it is simply not possible to do well on the GRE verbal test without the help of those who have studied its workings and devised suitable techniques.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needs to be updated. Quickly., February 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Verbal Workout for the GRE Exam (Princeton Review) (Paperback)

This review is aimed at those in the upper scoring echelon of the population. If you are getting 200 and wish to improve by a few hundred, this book can help, as most books will.

But for those of us who score in the 650+ range who want to shoot for an 800, you need to read this with caution. A lot of the techniques, while timeless in a general way, do need to be modified for the recent exam. This book was published in 1997 and it's getting long in the tooth. Pick up the PR 2003 GRE to know the current state of affairs for strategy. Those who are verbally gifted will also notice more than quite a few errors in this book. Most of the errors will fly under the radar for the general population and so it won't matter, but if you're shooting for 800, you make no mistakes.

The vocabularly list is a subset of larger ones in other PR books. Word Smart 2 is a great addition to anyone's library.

34 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Acceptable but too superficial for my tastes, March 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Verbal Workout for the GRE Exam (Princeton Review) (Paperback)

This book gave some reasonable strategies for picking up points on the GRE verbal section. However, I wasn't impressed by anything about the book. It was just sort of there, without real substance and power. A better alternative for the reading comprehension section would be ARCO's GRE-LSAT-GMAT-MCAT reading comprehension workbook. For the other components of the GRE verbal section, something like 1500 More Words You Should Know would give more bang for your buck, since analogy, antonym, and sentence completion sections are strongly vocabulary depende