Gre: Practicing to Take the Computer Science Test (3rd ed) (Paperback)

by Educational Testing Service (Author)

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Product Description
A GRE computer science test practice book, containing: actual tests; complete instructions and answer sheets; answers; score comparison data; and test-taking strategies.

About the Author
Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the world's premier educational testing organization and the only publisher of GRE and TOEFL test preparation materials containing authentic test questions from start to finish. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Educational Testing Service; 3rd edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446396281
• ISBN-13: 978-0446396288
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #271,546 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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151 of 151 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars looking for CS GRE books? this might help, October 31, 2001

By	"sameerraj" (Lewiston, ME United States) - See all my reviews

This books gives you general idea of test and let's you know what are the things you might not be prepared for. I don't have much else to say about this.

Well, I searched for CS GRE books everywhere, couldn't find any; but finally found few books which might be of help if you are giving CS GRE.

You mainly need books for

Introductory programming (Pascal and C)
Logic Design
Data Structures
Theory of Computation
Computer Architecture
Mathematics

some operating system and compiler

So get 5 solid books for these and you will be all set. And here are good books I found for preparing these topics. Finally :-( ( I have only a week left to prepare when I found these books)

Schaum's outline in digital logic
Schaum's outline essential computer mathematics

these two (above) are excellent

and
schaum's outline Data Structures in C++
schaum's outline Operating Systems
schaum's outline theory and problems

are good

All of these books have required theory in them, followed by problems and solutions. Very well explained, easy to follow and just the right amount of info needed for CS GRE.

Hope this helps. Good Luck ~ sameer

81 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Other sources for help, October 20, 2000

By	Carlos Henrique Romao Paiva (Recife, PE Brazil) - See all my reviews

My intention with this review is actually not to evaluate this book, but insteado to suggest to other graduate applicants some very interesting sources of information for the GRE/Computer Science test.

The first book I would like to recommend is Fundamentals of Data Structures, by Ellis Horowitz and Sartaj Sahni. It helped me to review subjects like binary trees, hashing, sorting, searching, and graphs.

The second recommendation is Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, by Aho, A., R. Sethi, and D. Ullman. There are many questions related to context-free grammars in the exam, and this book helped me to solve many of sample questions in the GRE:Practicing to Take the Computer Science Test book.

There are some questions related to digital logic and binary arithmetics. One book very well written that could help on practicing binary operations is An Introduction to Computer Logic, by H. T. Nagle.

In addition, the test generally features some questions with a small algorithm or piece of program, written in C, Pascal or structured english. A very good book, which has helped me not only to practice for this questions, is The C Programming Language, by B. Kernighan and D. Ritchie.

Moreover, there are some questions related to computer architecture. A good source in this field is Computer Organization and Architecture, by W. Stallings.

Finally, a good book that covers almost all the subjects is Computer Science, an Overview, by J. Gleen Brookshear. It is a nice material for a final review, and also comes with questions/answers of binary arithmetics.

I hope this essay be helpful for you as a guide to find material to complement the practicing tests.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, December 9, 2001

By A Customer

Textbooks and notes from past classes would be far more helpful than this book. The only valuable pieces of information are the section describing the content of the test and the practice test. Both of these are available in the free booklet you can download at the GRE site. (The practice test is exactly the same.)