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Verbal Workout for the GMAT, 2nd Edition (Graduate School Test Preparation)

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I recently, completed reading this book.
This book's decent reviews attracted me as I required some extra practice.
But after reading the book I am surprised why people have given good reviews to the book.

Here is my take:
Positive:
1. The book is OK for beginners who need guidance on very basics.
2. I can't think of anything else good about this book.

Negatives:
1. The book has very few sample questions
2. The introduction to each section is useful for very beginners. Anyone who has read kaplan or OG would not find the theory interesting.
3. The most important: The answer choices in critical reasoning/reading comprehension not similar to actual test. Some of the explanations are actually silly and it's hard to agree with the book at several places.

I would not recommend this book to anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Verbal was all I needed to focus on for the GMAT. Rather than spending $$ on taking a class, I just bought this book and read it cover to cover. The result: my berbal percentile went from 58% to 93%. No joke!

I have been a GMAT tutor to ESL test takers for over 6 years and I have to say that the PR strategies are by far the most useful for students who don't speak English as their first language and need to focus their efforts on the score raising essentials. IMHO the main weakness of this book is its lack of isolated concept drills to drive home each strategy.

Howard Spencer-EES Executive English Solutions Chile

I got this book because English is not my first language. This book really helped me on the GMAT. I scored 90th percentile on the verbal section and 700 total. The book is very well structured and fun to follow. I think the sentence correction section is the best! My math is strong, so I didn't buy any math review books. I think for those like me, the official guild and this princeton review should be enough. Good luck!

I used this book to practice for the verbal part of the GMAT Test. My specific problems for the GMAT test lies on Critical reasoning and reading, because english is not my first language. The book improved my skills on it. Of course, it works only for the verbal part but I think is useful for a complementary course.

This book is filled with step by step instructions for improving your verbal scores on the GMAT. It looks at each type of verbal question in depth and not only teaches you all the rules you'll need to know, but also has lots of examples. After I took the GMAT, my verbal scores were WAY up there -- I attribute much of that to this book. This book is a must for the GMAT.

Not so useful, the verbal section is much better covered in Cracking the GMAT with DVD, 2007 Edition (Graduate Test Prep).
If you are reffering to 2007 Edition you don't need to buy the verbal Workout book.

After going through the verbal workout and comparing it with Kaplan, the verbal book is a complete waste of time and money. The book spends too much time on how to "game" the test instead of teaching you the basic building blocks and strategies to solve the questions. The practice questions hardly resemble what GMAT verbal questions are. In many cases, the explanations confused me more. The only bright side is that the book has an extensive list of logic phrases and grammar which might be helpful if you don't them.

Excellent preparation for the GMAT verbal section. Provides a general english usage refresher, how to select the correct answers to tricky questions and how to spot common tricks used by the test creators fool the test taker into answering incorrectly.

This is a great review for someone who needs extra practice for the verbal section of the GMAT. It is set up with some review instructions for each section (sentence correction, argument, and reading comprehension) with a set of practice questions afterwards. At the end, there is an entire practice verbal section.