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Sparknotes Guide to the GRE Test
SparkNotes Guide to the GRE Test will help you master the skills required for success on the Graduate Record Examinations General Test. We focus only on what the GRE actually tests--no more, no less. This book provides you with all you need to ace the three scored sections--Analytical Writing, Verbal, and Quantitative.
SparkNotes Guide to the GRE Test includes:
* Essential Strategies and Guided Practice for tackling every question type on the test
* A Full-Length Practice Test, with detailed explanations
* A Tear-Out Chart that lists the 400 Most Commonly Tested GRE Vocabulary Words
* An Access Card to a free online practice exam
* Proven techniques for mastering the two GRE Essays
* Special focus on the New Question Types
Access to the online GRE Test Center includes:
* A short mini test that gives you a quick taste of the GRE.
* A full-length practice test with answers and thorough explanations.
* A fully searchable and extensively hyperlinked version of the printed book.
* Message boards to help you connect with other students taking the test. Trade strategies, get help on specific details, or figure out the answers to the test you just took.
SparkNotes Guide to the GRE Test includes:
* Essential Strategies and Guided Practice for tackling every question type on the test
* A Full-Length Practice Test, with detailed explanations
* A Tear-Out Chart that lists the 400 Most Commonly Tested GRE Vocabulary Words
* An Access Card to a free online practice exam
* Proven techniques for mastering the two GRE Essays
* Special focus on the New Question Types
Access to the online GRE Test Center includes:
* A short mini test that gives you a quick taste of the GRE.
* A full-length practice test with answers and thorough explanations.
* A fully searchable and extensively hyperlinked version of the printed book.
* Message boards to help you connect with other students taking the test. Trade strategies, get help on specific details, or figure out the answers to the test you just took.
448 pages, Paperback
Published January 3, 2008
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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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