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 Will Improve Your GRE Verbal Score September 25, 2009
Akua A (Ann Arbor, MI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was only able to make it halfway through this book, and it helped me to improve my GRE Verbal score by 90 points. It makes it really easy to learn the words, and the word roots units in the end are highly useful. Even if you do not have time to go through this entire book, it is still a great buy.
In addition, I did not think it would be such a great help with the reading sections, until I realized that the GRE passages are crawling with the words taught in this book. Highly recommend!
A Great and Helpful Book September 17, 2009
Dr. Bruce N. Alick (Eastern USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Barron's Essential Words for the GRE is an excellent resource for vocabulary preparation for the Graduate Record Exam. There are exercises that enable the student to test their knowledge of the words studied in proper context as well as a post test to gauge one's readiness for the actual exam. The book is very practical and well written! I highly recommend it.
 awesome book September 12, 2009
S. Marshall (bessemer, al)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great for studying vocab for the gre. It helps by giving you examples of how the word can be used in a sentence and matching the word with the definitions. It also points out the most frequently used words as well as the other words that could appear on the gre. It worth the money.
Good words. Layout could be better. September 3, 2009
hubert33 (Philadelphia, PA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book helped me a lot when I was preparing for the GRE. One of these words was a question for me on the test and a good number of the other words appeared as possible multiple choice answers. Learning all of the words in this book will definitely improve your score on the GRE, as the word selections and definitions seem to be very appropriate for the vocabulary level of the test.
I didn't really like the layout, however. The exercises were too brief and too easy, and I ended up making flash cards to learn the entire book anyway. As a few others have mentioned, the alphabetical order made the book more confusing than it had to be, as you had entire units of words that began with pre- or pro-, for example.
Overall though, a useful preparation aid.
worth getting, but imperfect August 11, 2009
kbizzle (san francisco, ca)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is certainly helpful and well organized. I would strongly suggest that you also get the Princeton Review general GRE book and also learn all of the hit parade words. I systematically cross checked all the words from the PR with this book and while there is some overlap it is definitely worth having both. It is slightly frustrating that Barron's doesnt go into a lot of second meanings for words, which is something you should definitely know for the GRE. I spent 9 weeks with a ton of flashcards working through both word sets and got a 630 V. The verbal section is HARD so practice and be prepared to make plenty of flashcards. Kind of knowing a word is not sufficient. I never got through the latter 2/3rds of the root section, but I can definitely see how that could help give you a high score. I'd say 10 weeks with this book if you plan to realistically ingest and retain all the information.
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