- Paperback: 243 pages
- Publisher: Random House USA Inc (July 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 067977890X
- ISBN-13: 978-0679778905
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.1 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,185,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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GRE Verbal Workout is the only book on the market devoted exclusively to raising students' scores on the demanding verbal section of the GRE
Features proven techniques for acing the analogy, reading comprehension, antonym, and sentence completion sections of the test
Contains the Hit Parade--a computer-generated list of more than 300 words that most frequently appear on the GRE
Features proven techniques for acing the analogy, reading comprehension, antonym, and sentence completion sections of the test
Contains the Hit Parade--a computer-generated list of more than 300 words that most frequently appear on the GRE
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PROVEN TECHNIQUES FOR SCORING HIGH
GRE Verbal Workout offers in depth instruction on the skills covered by the verbal section of the GRE exam. Written by The Princeton Review, the worlds leading authority on test preparation, this volume is the only book on the market devoted exclusively to raising students scores on the demanding verbal section of the GRE. Features proven techniques for the analogy, reading comprehension, antonym, and sentence completion section of the test. Also included is the "Hit Parade" --- a computer generated list of more than 300 words that most frequently appear on the GRE.
GRE Verbal Workout offers in depth instruction on the skills covered by the verbal section of the GRE exam. Written by The Princeton Review, the worlds leading authority on test preparation, this volume is the only book on the market devoted exclusively to raising students scores on the demanding verbal section of the GRE. Features proven techniques for the analogy, reading comprehension, antonym, and sentence completion section of the test. Also included is the "Hit Parade" --- a computer generated list of more than 300 words that most frequently appear on the GRE.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book gave some reasonable strategies for picking up points on the GRE verbal section. However, I wasn't impressed by anything about the book. It was just sort of there, without real substance and power. A better alternative for the reading comprehension section would be ARCO's GRE-LSAT-GMAT-MCAT reading comprehension workbook. For the other components of the GRE verbal section, something like 1500 More Words You Should Know would give more bang for your buck, since analogy, antonym, and sentence completion sections are strongly vocabulary depende
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61 of 65 people found the following review helpful
Effective techniques, learnable in a few weeks
11 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
As a result of using this book, my GRE verbal score improved from 250 (1%ile) to 610 (86%ile) in one month. The GRE has nothing to do with what you learned in college, and everything to do with the techniques outlined in this book. Learn how to get the reading-comp questions right without actually reading the passages. Learn how to get the analogies and even antonyms right without knowing most of the words. Each chapter of the book is geared to a particular type of question. Each chapter starts by explaining how you can go wrong, and then guides you through techniques with many carefully chosen practice examples, giving you great confidence and speed on the real GRE. If you plan on taking the GRE, you must have this book because it is simply not possible to do well on the GRE verbal test without the help of those who have studied its workings and devised suitable techniques.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Needs to be updated. Quickly.
22 Feb 2003
Format:Paperback
This review is aimed at those in the upper scoring echelon of the population. If you are getting 200 and wish to improve by a few hundred, this book can help, as most books will.
But for those of us who score in the 650+ range who want to shoot for an 800, you need to read this with caution. A lot of the techniques, while timeless in a general way, do need to be modified for the recent exam. This book was published in 1997 and it's getting long in the tooth. Pick up the PR 2003 GRE to know the current state of affairs for strategy. Those who are verbally gifted will also notice more than quite a few errors in this book. Most of the errors will fly under the radar for the general population and so it won't matter, but if you're shooting for 800, you make no mistakes.
The vocabularly list is a subset of larger ones in other PR books. Word Smart 2 is a great addition to anyone's library.
34 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Acceptable but too superficial for my tastes
13 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
This book gave some reasonable strategies for picking up points on the GRE verbal section. However, I wasn't impressed by anything about the book. It was just sort of there, without real substance and power. A better alternative for the reading comprehension section would be ARCO's GRE-LSAT-GMAT-MCAT reading comprehension workbook. For the other components of the GRE verbal section, something like 1500 More Words You Should Know would give more bang for your buck, since analogy, antonym, and sentence completion sections are strongly vocabulary depende
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