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Book Description
Are you ready for the GRE Verbal Section? You will be. Kaplan's GRE Exam Verbal Workbook, Third Edition comes complete with a targeted review of all the tested material on the Verbal section of the GRE, plus Kaplan's renowned test-taking strategies. This powerful combination makes Kaplan's GRE Exam Verbal Workbook the most effective way for you to score higher on what is often described as the most challenging section of the GRE. In-Depth Review of Analogies, Reading Comprehension, Sentence Completion, and Antonyms -- with practice drills in every chapter. Special Chapter on Analytical Writing to help you score well on this section of the GRE, including tips for writing clearly, concisely, and effectively. Exclusive Strategies to manage time, master all the question types, and succeed on the computer-adaptive GRE exam. A Mini-Dictionary for the Verbal Section of over 1,000 words -- including special tips for the "Top 200" words most often found on the test.
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 Good Book! December 1, 2005
Irene Music
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
I took my GRE in October and got 96% for Verbal. I think I owe it to this book (AND to Barron's Pass Key to the GRE). This book has a very helpful vocab list -- I especially like how they break down into which sets of words are most common, then next most common etc... I also found their analogies section and sentence completion section very helpful -- the 4 types of bridges idea for an analogy was next to revolutionary for me. Also learning that the answer choices for an analogy have to match the same order as the words in the analogy. I lived 27 years and NEVER knew that, I don't know how many times I've gotten questions wrong from having the correct relationship there but the answer words in the wrong order.
The other sections I didn't find too helpful, the reading comp. And their section on building your vocab starts with something like "read your whole life" haha, that was meaningless.
This book improved my GRE score markedly February 10, 2007
S. Callaway (USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I took the GRE a few weeks ago, and I had 2 1/2 weeks to prepare for it, having never seen or heard of the GRE before that time. I panicked and ordered four books. Kaplan's verbal workbook was a great purchase and it improved my verbal score - I got a 610 and I am not even born and raised in the USA.
I used Kaplan in conjunction with Barron's Passkey to the GRE Test and The Ultimate Verbal and Vocabulary Builder. Together, the three of them and 6 stacks of flashcards were the reason I did well on the test. The best part of the Kaplan book is the exercises and strategies given to help you through the challenging verbal section. I learned to make an educated guess even if I didn't know what any of the words meant and I got quite a few of them right. It is not so much about roots, prefixes and suffixes, but more about using the word in context with the other words and ruling out possibilities that are impossible. I strongly recommend making this book part of your GRE study regimen. I did one of each group of exercies per day. For reference, I studied on average 12 hours a day for two straight weeks. This book is worth your money and MUCH better than anything published by ETS which proved useless to me.
Solid Preparation - It can be amusing too...))) August 20, 2002
irina (Tallahassee, FL United States)
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
Two Important Points:1. Vocabulary... Nightmares of GRE takers, especially if English is not your native language... And even if it is...:-)
O.k., this book is indeed much better than, say, Barron's Verbal section in this way:
the authors use an innovative approach to the crucial but often neglected because the time lacks,- part of GRE Verbal - vocabulary lists. Even though you decide not to buy this one, apply this tactic: design your own WORD CATEGORIES - and you WILL NOT forget those words. List words you don't know on a sheet of paper in two colomns, each having a meaning opposite to another (HESITATE : ACT QUICKLY, for exemple. Hesitate: Dither, Falter, Waver, Luggard...; Act Quickly:Apace,Impetuous, Precipitate etc..).
More possible groupings:
RUDENESS : POLITENESS
SMART: STUPID
WAR: PEACE
MAN MADE : NATURE MADE
..... Working so will make ANTONYMS section of the GRE a piece of cake, and, for sure, will boost your ANALOGIES score.(cause what do you think you were doing, making up your word groups? Preparing indirectly for exactly those GRE sections:-) This book presents the vocab in exactly this manner. The only disadvantage is that they give a limited number of words. As for me, I had to complete the categories they suggested with words taken from "Barron's: How to Prepare For the GRE" 3,500 word list. 2. As for helpful techniques for specific GRE VERBAl sections, the book is fraught with very efficient hints. I Highly recommend it, really. Good luck on the test!
Great Workbook and More November 5, 2006
Y. Chen (Austin,TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just took my GRE yesterday and I can tell you that every word on the verbal portion (excluding the reading portion, of course) was in this book. The vocabulary building section was the most useful for me. I bought 3 sets of the flash cards - very useful, too. These 2 tools helped me get the verbal score I need to get in to the graduate school of my choice. Just beware that there are some errors in each one of them. Oh, a great companion to these two is the website dictionary.com. Study hard with these and you'll see great result.
GRE Exam Verbal Workbook September 18, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I needed some extra help boosting my score on the verbal section, and this book did the trick! It was very thorough, and the strategies they give really worked. I also liked that there were lots of practice questions, and the detailed explanations for every answer helped me understand the ones I got wrong. Also, there's a great "mini-dictionary" with tons of words that are often found on the test.
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