Barron's GRE: Graduate Record Examination |  | Authors: Sharon Weiner Green, Ira K. Wolf
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Edition: 17
Pages: 560
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ISBN: 0764179497
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
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Publication Date: August 1, 2007
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This 17th edition of Barrons GRE manual reflects recent Graduate Record Exams and presents six full-length model exams with all questions answered and explained. Tests are similar to recent actual GREs in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. The manual also reviews all GRE test topics: antonym, analogy, and sentence-completion questions, reading comprehension, analytical writing, quantitative comparison questions, data interpretation, and math. The enclosed CD-ROM contains computerized versions of the books subject reviews and practice tests.
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Barron's GRE (18th Edition) October 19, 2009
Julia Gulia (San Diego, CA USA)
This book didn't come with a cd-rom, so I can't comment on that. The book was very helpful, though. It offers some good testing strategies and tips. The math examples are also pretty good in the variety of questions that are shown. I just took the GRE general exam and saw a problem identical to a practice problem in the Barron's book. The "Math Review" material is concise, covering general ideas and trends found in the GRE. If you are looking for an extensive math review, I probably would supplement this with another book, or look for another book altogether. There are only 2-3 full-length practice exams offered, which also might be a problem for some people, but you can find extra practice exams on the GRE website.
 was just good!!! October 17, 2009
Kwadwo Adu Twum (ITALY)
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 Felipe Rodrigues September 22, 2009
Felipe Rodrigues (Curitiba, Brazil)
Pay attention to the fact that this edition doesn't come with the CD.
Otherwise, the material is a good start.
i did not get delivery of the book, barrons gre2009, September 6, 2009
Olufemi Akintounde (USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I did not get the book at all, and I really need it, i did not know how to track the book online to know the status. This is the first time this has happened to me after a purchase from amazon, I want to be sure what happened. Thank you
Good test review book with some limitations September 3, 2009
C. Fox (Jacksonville, FL)
The Barron's GRE book does a good job familiarizing test takers with the format of the test as well as providing good test review on both the quantitative and verbal portions. A few thoughts on the particulars:
-The computer based test CD that came with the book reproduced the feel of the test fairly faithfully, although the test question bank was limited, so if you take it several times within a few days, you're likely to see the same questions repeated and get an artificially higher score.
-The quantitative review is very good, especially for people like me who have been out of the academic environment for a few years and who don't use coordinate geometry in their daily life. I also used the sparknotes website to study math review, which was perhaps an even better resource.
-Even though I didn't use the verbal review section to study word lists, roots or prefixes, the strategies presented - like mulling over the word pairs to establish relationships before looking at the list, rather than just looking to see which pairs were 'like' the first one - were a great help and helped me in the test.
-The essay portion was good mainly for introducing the types of essays.
The book lacks the new types of questions which have recently been incorporated into the GRE, and while they are fairly benign, I had to go elsewhere to study for and research them. Also, I believe the book gives 30 minutes for the quantitative test, rather than the 45 that is currently allowed. In the actual test, this increase in time threw off my timing, as I worked the first half much more slowly than I had been used to until I realized that I was running out of time.
I bought this book and the ETS book as they were the most economical ones, studied them both hard for three weeks or so, taking seven or eight practice tests between them, took the test and scored 730 on both quantitative and verbal. On the first few practice tests I scored in the 500's on the quantitative side and in the mid 600's on the verbal. Verbally, the only thing that changed was my familiarity with the question types and verbal reasoning strategies; I didn't learn any new words. Quantitatively, I both reviewed a lot of dormant geometry, algebra and word problem skills and learned some excellent test taking strategies that frequently negated the need to actually solve the problem.
On the whole, it's a good buy at a mere fraction of the 150 dollar test fee.
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