GRE The Official Guide to the Revised General Test, Second Edition Author: Educational Testing Service | Language: English | ISBN:
B008J58DF2 | Format: PDF
GRE The Official Guide to the Revised General Test, Second Edition Description
Get the only official guide to the GRE® revised General Test that comes straight from the test makers!
If you're looking for the best, most authoritative guide to the GRE revised General Test, you've found it! The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test is the only GRE guide specially created by ETS--the people who actually make the test. It's packed with everything you need to do your best on the test--and move toward your graduate or business school degree.
Only ETS can show you exactly what to expect on the test, tell you precisely how the test is scored, and give you hundreds of authentic test questions for practice! That makes this guide your most reliable and accurate source for everything you need to know about the GRE revised General Test.
No other guide to the GRE revised General Test gives you:
- Online access to additional practice tests
- Hundreds of authentic test questions--so you can study with the real thing
- In-depth descriptions of the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning measures plus valuable tips for answering each question type
- Detailed overview of the two types of Analytical Writing essay tasks including scored sample responses and actual raters' comments
- Everything you need to know about the test, straight from the test makers!
- File Size: 43244 KB
- Print Length: 563 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2 edition (July 17, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008J58DF2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I've been tutoring the GRE since 2008, I've taken the Revised GRE, and I've written two preparation books for it (Barron's 6 GRE Practice Tests, and GRE Vocab Capacity). So I'm very familiar with the test (maybe a little too familiar).
This version of the ETS Official Guide to the Revised GRE is exactly the same as the old version except for a couple of important things:
1. There's a new paper practice test. This is great, since it brings the number of authentic GRE practice tests available to four.
2. Sample responses to the 2nd paper test's essays are included with grader commentary. This is useful since you can see what the real graders liked and what they didn't.
Things I like about this book:
1. The AWA (analytical writing assessment) chapter is well-written. Not only does it clearly explain how to score well, but it includes real sample essays (and there are more sample essays + commentary at the end of each paper test).
2. The book and CD have real GRE questions and tests (obviously). Using real questions is much more valuable that using those written by a third party because they are always more realistic and therefore are MUCH better preparation for the real GRE you're going to take. The computer tests are exactly like the real GRE I took.
3. The book covers all question types and *almost* all of the math concepts.
Things I don't like:
1. The question explanations are often inaccessible to the average student, too technical/highfalutin, or too presumptive that the student understands certain concepts. I realize that the book can't explain everything, but more question explanations could be written in layman's terms.
As many other reviewers have noted, this is the only book on the market that is produced by ETS, the company that writes and administers the GRE; however, please know that this does not mean that buying this book is a no-brainer. Far from it. The book may be helpful to you in some respects, but I would never recommend purchasing only it to study for the GRE. I would buy it perhaps as a supplement to a book published by a third-party (like Barron's, the Princeton Review, Kaplan, etc) or not at all. These third party books really are likely to serve you FAR better, as I will try to explain. Here are the things I think you should consider as you decide whether to purchase this book:
1) The majority of the practice questions in this book are available for FREE on the ETS website. Just check out their "Prepare for the GRE" page for pdfs.
2) The POWERPREP II software (including two practice tests) which is contained on the disc accompanying this book is also available for FREE on the ETS website. Just check out their "Prepare for the GRE" page for a download.
3) Whether you go with the book or get it online, the POWERPREP II software is Windows/IE-compatible only. (Ridiculous.)
4) The Math Review section of this book is also available for FREE on the ETS website. Just check out their "Prepare for the GRE" page for a download.
5) Many of the other explanations and general tips contained in the book are also included in the free online materials (I think it's called the Practice Book) on the ETS website.
6) All that said, if you prefer to work on paper rather than on a PDF, and you don't want to print out a giant stack of pages, you may like the idea of having ETS' materials nicely printed and bound as they are in this book.
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