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I could have bought a cheaper copy and be satisfied with it. I regret that I spent so much money- $13 and above for that book. I left about two or three messages to no avail and i have given up but I am not happy and not satisfied.
I could have bought a cheepaer one at a few cents but i chose this one becasuse it was supposed to have a DVD. I called Wachil right away and asked aboput the missing DVD and he simply said send it back. I received this book in good time but the description given in the advert indicated that the book was good new and that it had a DVD.
Following advice from Amazon i decided to call him for further discussion and he would not answer. I have bought many books from amazon and they are so new at very little and the descriptions are apt.Mary I was so disappointed not to find one.
Besides the book has a lot of writting all over and e ven in ink.
She has mentioned several great things she has read and likes the general layout and practice tests. Arrived quickly and has been a great resource for my wife, who is taking the GRE to apply for physician assistant schools.
It leaves out explanations of key concepts that are necessary for success, sample questions for each concept are minimal, some basics aren't taught until much later in the math section that would have been useful earlier, the instruction is vague, sometimes misleading and in some cases its more difficult to figure out WTF the instructor is trying to say than the actual math concept itself. I'd rate this a ZERO, but Amazon wouldn't allow it. With every concept and every subgroup within each section, I was left with a feeling of "is that it.". You are warned.
You'll spend a lot of money, waste a lot of time and it will leave as prepared as if you did nothing. I wish I could get back the time and money I wasted on this book. But for God sakes, don't waste your time or money with the Princeton Review. They both are comprehensive, well written, and well organized.
It just isn't enough instruction for the actual test. Both combined will give you all the tools you need to do the best that you possibly can on the GRE. I spent 2 months carefully working through this book. I highly recommend the Barons comprehensive exam prep and the Kaplan Math Workbook.
However, the math section is totally and completely worthless in preparation for an actual exam. I was wanting more in every case. The verbal section was inadequate, but a passable review of concepts if you already know them and simply need a refresher.
Verbal 700/800 = 97th percentile.Did Princeton Review help. Ok for learning GRE test taking techniques. I thought that the techniques for some test portions, esp analogies, were better dealt with than they were in Kaplan, but Kaplan had better quizzes - some of the PR stuff was simplistic in the quizzes they gave.Update: I applied to, and was accepted by, Columbia for an MS in Operations Research, so the Quant score proved to be good enough. Certainly. I thought Princeton Review had better techniques, but Kaplan had better questions and quizzes were longer and more complete.It cannot make studying fun, because this is a BORING test for which to study.I did OK on the quant, but might have done a little better if studying for the test was not so mind-numbing.I scored 1460/1600 which is good, but I was hoping for a better quantitative score. Results were:Quant 760/800 = 86th percentile.
I was disappointed, however, that the CD was not included with the book. The condition of the book was not new, but in very good condition.
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