Pass Key to the GRE (Barron's Pass Key to the Gre) |  | Authors: Sharon Weiner Green, Ira K. Wolf Ph.D.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Edition: 5
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ISBN: 0764142011
Dewey Decimal Number: 378
EAN: 9780764142017
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Publication Date: September 1, 2009
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This compact version of Barrons comprehensive GRE test preparation manual presents an up-to-date overview of the exam, answers students commonly asked questions, and explains what they need to know about the computer-adaptive GRE. The book presents review and exercises covering the GREs verbal ability and analytical writing questions, and offers a GRE high-frequency word list for vocabulary building. A math review covers facts and formulas, general math tactics, discrete quantitative questions, quantitative comparison questions, and data interpretation questions. The book concludes with three model tests with answer keys and answer explanations.
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 Somewhat helpful, but verging on obsolete July 30, 2000
Christina P. Branson (Farmington)
I'm certain that I did better on the GRE than I would have without having read this book. However, there must be better books out there. For one thing, this one (2nd edition) spends an awful lot of time on strategy for the pencil-and-paper version of the GRE. I don't know of any place in the US that doesn't offer the computer-adaptive version, and it's my understanding that the vast majority of US test sites will not *let* you take the pencil-and-paper version. Let's hope the book's 3rd edition takes that into account and gives more strategy info on the computer-adaptive test.Then there were all those typos. Big ole honkin' errors everywhere. So the practice tests were almost worthless. They were also arranged in such a manner that I had to use three bookmarks to refer back and forth after each section. Very annoying, and the book's squat shape wouldn't let the pages stay open by themselves, so I always had to use a hand or a knee or something to anchor them down. Where the book does give useful information, it doesn't give enough. There was a little section (about a page) on math formulas, which was nice, but what I really needed was a page or two of those little math "tricks"--those shortcuts you learn in high school and promptly forget until the next time you take a math class (which is a looooong time for some of us). I would have given this book one star, but a) it was better than nothing, and b) there *is* a 3rd edition out, so maybe there's hope.
 This book is a piece of junk November 9, 1999
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
All of the study suggestions and coaching seemed very helpful...UNTIL I took the three practice tests in the book. Several of the answers the book gives are totally wrong, mainly typos on math problems. This casts doubt on the accuracy of the rest of the material in the book. Typos are to be expected in any book. But somebody should have checked to make sure the answers matched up with the questions before this thing was published. This is a seriously sloppy editing job. I'm sure there's a better GRE study book out there.
Poor proof-reading undermines this book's value. November 9, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This pass key could benefit from a more careful locksmith. Multiple proof-reading errors_in questions, answer keys and solution explanations_made studying with this book almost as challenging as taking the test.
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