GRE: How to Prepare for the Graduate Record Examination General Test

by Samuel C. Brownstein

Offers a math and verbal review, test-taking strategies, and sample tests, and discusses the computerized GRE. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812097246
• ISBN13: 9780812097245
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.9" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

The only book you will need to prepare GRE

Barron's GRE book is the best. In addition to Barron's, I used different books suc as Kaplan and Princeton review. I found that if you study this Barron's book diligently, you can do very well on your GRE test. The 3500 word list is very very very helpful.The quantative questions may be harder than the actual exam. However, if you can master these questions, you should do well on the actual test.All in all, it's an excellent book. Please give yourself two months as there are a lot of material to be learned and studied.

Great Help

I found this Barron's book a much better help than any other GRE book I used or looked at (esp the Priceton Review book - very bad). This book has a huge number of example problems and exercises (and practice tests) that are really beneficial. The tips about each section of the test are helpful, informative, and well explained. The vocab section is tremendous - with many many words and quizzes to test yourself. If you are considering a GRE study book, I highly recommend this one as the only one you'd need.

Extremely useful, but model tests & software are irrelevant

Use this book in addition to the official Big Book and PowerPrep software. Read the strategies and hints and learn the 3500-word list, but disregard the model tests and software: they have almost nothing in common with real tests. I started learning English only after high school, but this book helped me score 2320 on GRE. I must say that most of your preparation time should be spent with the Big Book and also familiarize yourself with the CAT GRE several days before the test date. However keep in mind that GRE tests your life and language experience of many years as well as overall educational background. So the sooner you start preparing, the better.

An indispensable source for the GRE test takers!

This was my first GRE reference and practice book and it has proven to be the best. There couldn't have been better explanatory advice and comments that you could find in other GRE references of this nature. I personally find the verbal part in the book very useful in expanding my lexicon that was required for the test. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is serious about taking the GRE!

Great helper for Analytical and Vocabulary !

Though i found the Barron's analytical problems a bit harder than any other analytical problems in all the other books like Big Book, Arco's, Kaplan and Princeton Review but they helped me alot in building the true understanding of how to solve the difficult ones in the GRE. In my opinion the time limit given for analytical sections should not be taken into account and tests should be taken untimed and the real goal should be to get all the questions right. Using the above mentioned process when i finished the 10 analytical test sections i got almost perfect in solving the analytical type questions which are logic games etc. To develop speed, however, big book which then looks easier after doing all these problems should be done and then timing for CAT can be developed taking some software tests of Kaplan, Princeton Review and in the end Powerprep. I got 790 in Analytical as a result of all this. The words given in word lists are very important and often come in the real GRE. So if you are able to cram all these words then you'll definitely score high in GRE.