The Princeton Review realizes that acing the GRE is very different from getting straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about mathematics and essay writing–only the techniques you’ll need to score higher on the exam. There’s a big difference. In Cracking the GRE, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and -Eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool you -Raise your score by mastering the vocabulary words found most often on the GRE -Use Process of Elimination, Ballparking, and Aggressive Guessing to ace the exam -Master even the toughest Analogies, Antonyms, Equations, and the Essay section -Practice taking the GRE in an online testing environment with instant scoring analysis
This book gives you 120 practice test questions covering each section of the exam, plus a CD-ROM with 4 full-length practice GRE tests and instant score reporting. Our practice questions are like the ones you’ll see on the actual GRE, and we explain every solution.
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the verbal section is good...the vocab words listed as commonly used comprised at least half the words on the gre vocab related sections. the math section was difficult to follow since i'd long since forgotten the concepts, and i needed to get a separate book for math. the outline for the analytical section was very useful. the cd-rom was kind of lacking; there was not enough of a pool of vocab-oriented questions to be able to take more than one practice test without using the same questions several times.
My verbal score improved by 180 points since the practice test and my math score improved 190 points since the practice test.
i did not use any other prep methods apart from the math book and a website called mathisfun.com