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Sparknotes Guide to the GRE Test by SparkNotes
By October 2007, the GRE will be completely transformed. Our comprehensive study guide features step-by-step coaching and in-depth reviews that cover all sections of the test. Practice includes questions just like the real GRE exam with full explanations and special strategies for acing the test.
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Eric K. Goodman
9 books16 followersEric Goodman is a graduate of both Yale and Stanford University, where he received an M.A. in Creative Writing.
He has published four novels: Child of My Right Hand, In Days of Awe, The First Time I Saw Jenny Hall, and High on the Energy Bridge. During his notorious Los Angeles years, he wrote episodic television scripts and feature-length screenplays, a practice he continues to this day. Other publications include short stories and more than 150 non-fiction pieces in national publications including Travel & Leisure, Saveur, Travel & Leisure Golf, GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Departures, Glamour, Life and Buzz.
By day, Eric is a Professor of English and directs the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is hard at work on his fifth novel, Identity Thief, a story of race, love and history set against a backdrop of racial problems in Cincinnati in 1841 and 2001.
He has published four novels: Child of My Right Hand, In Days of Awe, The First Time I Saw Jenny Hall, and High on the Energy Bridge. During his notorious Los Angeles years, he wrote episodic television scripts and feature-length screenplays, a practice he continues to this day. Other publications include short stories and more than 150 non-fiction pieces in national publications including Travel & Leisure, Saveur, Travel & Leisure Golf, GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Departures, Glamour, Life and Buzz.
By day, Eric is a Professor of English and directs the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is hard at work on his fifth novel, Identity Thief, a story of race, love and history set against a backdrop of racial problems in Cincinnati in 1841 and 2001.
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August 27, 2009
Obsolete. That one word accurately sums up the entire book. What a shame, too. The Internet links that I tried did not work. The card for a pre-test in the back of the book did not work. SparkNotes removed the GRE from their home page listing so I wasn't able to access the pretest that way either.
As for the contents? The book is written in a light-hearted manner with little jokes interspersed. It explained exactly what to expect on the GRE, how long each portion took and provided significant data to help understand the sections. However, I found the examples in the Comprehension Section to be very short while the actual test had very long paragraphs to read. When I took the sample test inside the book, I had plenty of time to finish, but on the actual test I was pushing it due to very long passages of text to read and obscure questions to choose from.
The Math sSction was well done. It offered some neat tips and tricks in lieu of attempting to solve an entire problem since a person has 45 minutes to answer all the math questions. The Data Analysis Section starts off with easy to understand and answer questions, but the questions on the GRE are geared to gauge your knowledge then dive as deep as they think you can go. The book goes deep. FYI!
A great deal of the material that I saw on the actual GRE was not accurately represented in this book. Furthermore, the potential questions that are currently being evaluated at the end of the actual GRE make this book even further obsolete in the very near future.
In my opinion, this book should be pulled off the shelves.
As for the contents? The book is written in a light-hearted manner with little jokes interspersed. It explained exactly what to expect on the GRE, how long each portion took and provided significant data to help understand the sections. However, I found the examples in the Comprehension Section to be very short while the actual test had very long paragraphs to read. When I took the sample test inside the book, I had plenty of time to finish, but on the actual test I was pushing it due to very long passages of text to read and obscure questions to choose from.
The Math sSction was well done. It offered some neat tips and tricks in lieu of attempting to solve an entire problem since a person has 45 minutes to answer all the math questions. The Data Analysis Section starts off with easy to understand and answer questions, but the questions on the GRE are geared to gauge your knowledge then dive as deep as they think you can go. The book goes deep. FYI!
A great deal of the material that I saw on the actual GRE was not accurately represented in this book. Furthermore, the potential questions that are currently being evaluated at the end of the actual GRE make this book even further obsolete in the very near future.
In my opinion, this book should be pulled off the shelves.
July 17, 2010
accessible language, which is a good thing considering how long I have been away from some of these concepts (I'm looking at you, math)...
...not that it helped me a whole lot when it came right down to it, but oh well.
...not that it helped me a whole lot when it came right down to it, but oh well.
August 14, 2008
This study guide has a very lighthearted tone which definitely helped me get through it! The pop out vocabulary list was also convenient.
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