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 Deja Vu. I have answered these questions before January 4, 2009
I purchased the Kaplan Premier 2009 book. Currently I am reviewing the verbal portion of the GRE. I picked up this Kaplan Verbal Workbook because I want a stellar score. I am finding that many, if not most of the questions in this verbal workbook are questions I have seen before in the premier quide.
Kaplan, I am grant you one star for your indolence. Hopefully when I take the full GRE practice tests, all of the questions will be fresh.
An additional criticism of the Kaplan Premier 2009 book is their predilection towards Windows. There are technologies that are OS independent, ie. HTML/Java/Flash. Your programming foundation excludes Mac and Linux users. I am able to use the CD, as I own a Windows box and use Parallels on my MacBook Pro.
Not sure if I will give the Quantitative review a look or not. I may have to physically review the quantitative book in a store to see if there were as lazy as I have noticed in this book.
 Not so great November 11, 2007
I went through and I read the whole book, took all the practice tests, and even learned all of the words. Come test day none of the words were even on my GRE and I had been so worried about following the book that I think I may have done better without it. The book was good in improving my vocabulary, however, don't expect it to help you out a whole lot.
Not a good test prep October 20, 2007
I used this book diligently over the course of a month to prepare for the verbal section of the GRE, but found that I was totally unprepared for taking the test. I do not recommend purchasing it for preparation. Instead look to the Princeton review. It's also a little cheaper for poor college students.
 Brand New Item ! September 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought a brand new item from amazon and it's really brand new with reasonable price.
 fantastic vocab sections, but so-so on question types April 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Kaplan Verbal Workbook has a great vocabulary list, often with related words and synonyms in the definition. There's a word root list comparable with other GRE prep books, but the Workbook takes word recognition one step further with its Word Groups (eg audacious, courageous, and dauntless are all degrees of boldness) and Opposite Drills--good strategy for GRE, since GRE doesn't test the exact word definition, but your recognition of the best answer choice.
However, I found the exercises on the actual four types of questions to be different from ETS published exams. The "best" answers were sometimes not as clearly differentiated from the rest of the choices. I prefer to do test simulations with ETS's past exams or from Barron's books.
Despite my doubts on the questions, I would still buy this book again for its stellar vocabulary-building sections.
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