GRE Prep Course [With Disk]

by Jeff Kolby

Book Overview

Every year students pay as much as $900 to test prep companies to prepare for the GRE. Now you can get the same preparation in a book. GRE Prep Course provides the equivalent of a two-month, 50-hour... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188905710X
• ISBN13: 9781889057101
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Nova Press
• Length: 618 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.2" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Most thorough prep ever!!!

I had both the Kaplan and Princeton Review books. But the Nova GRE prep was by far the most thorough guide. Warning...this book is not for the weak...there's not a whole lot of white space in it. While princeton review is great if you want quick strategies, I think the Nova is best for those who really have the time to study for the GRE. Also in terms of difficulty, the problem sets in nova are more complex I think.. and the math is a bit more challenging, compared to the Kaplan and Princeton Review books. I only wish I had started with and focused completely on the nova prep guide. I felt like I had wasted my time on the other two books because of the name. The other two have good stuff, but I'm saying if you really want to drill yourself and if you've been away from math and words for very long, go with the nova...it will get you up to speed if you take the time to go through it. there are a couple of mistakes here and there in the book but not enough to detract from the overall value. Man I wish I started on Nova sooner!!!

To all who had a part in writing the GRE Prep Course book.

I took the GRE for the first time in November 2004. I used books like Princeton Review and Peterson's material put out by ETS. I used these books to study mostly on my weak area, math. I decided to take the test again in December 2005. I only studied math and used the GRE Prep Course book. It was hard at first. The book was different than the rest -- it actually had hard math problems in small print on 300 pages, instead of large print baby problems like in the Princeton Review. I've never done well in math, but your book made sense. It made the other prep books seem like they were written to make you have to take the test twice. Anyway, when the date to the test came around, I felt prepared. I got up at 4 AM on the morning of the test to drive 2 hrs. to the testing site. On my way, my car started to have problems. I called my mechanic uncle and he said the car wouldn't make it. I was passing the airport, so I pulled into a rental car place, rented a car and got myself there with minutes to spare. Two hours late, I got my scores: 240 points higher on my math! Your book works, Thank you, Leah

gre prep course

Obtained very good score after 4 weeks of preparation. Excellent for the analytical section, you get a full review for 1 week revision. It is in this book that I really understood analogies and it became very easy when you apply the techniques. The 4000 words given in the dictionary is too much. It should give the top 600 words which I think is quite appropriate for 4 weeks learning. I've also bought Kaplan and GRE secrets. They have a very reasonable amount of words to memorize. For all the three books, I have bought the e-book version. Apart from GRE secrets, you cannot either copy or print the other two books. It is a big problem because you have to stay all the time on the same computer. I have reconfigured windows, and I could not open the e-book again. Hence, I believe that the publisher should have an e-book version that can be printed. I agree that it will be a bit more expensive. I have choosen to buy e-book version because I knew that the printed books would take a few weeks before it arrives in my country. I needed them urgently.

Worth it

Though several other reviewers seem to find this book mediocre at best, I found that it was very helpful in a lot of ways. The questions seemed a lot harder than actual questions on ETS practice tests as well as on the real GRE, so when it came to actually taking the test I felt that everything was pretty easy by comparison. My score was much better after having studied this book than it would have been without it. Granted, I did come across some wrong answers in problem explanations, but very few when considering the sizable quantity of practice questions in this book. The Quantitative lessons were the most helpful to me, as they provided in-depth reviews of all the concepts that are likely to be encountered in the exam, with practice problems for each concept. The logic sections were also very helpful, especially when it came to practicing how to concisely jot down the conditions of a problem and how to draw the right kinds of diagrams quickly. Finally, the verbal section provided a good review, including a list of 4000 important vocab words. Unfortunately, the vocab definitions provided were extremely brief, and I found it necessary to turn to another study guide for more extensive definitions.Overall, though I didn't manage an 800-800-800 like some reviewers who used this book (I wish I could have gotten that score!), I did very well (well enough to feel no inclination to take the test again). I found that the only factor that lowered my scores at all was the fact that I had trouble finishing all the questions on the quantitative and analytical secitons within the time limits (damn those time limits! damn them to hell!). I was much better off for having studied with this book and I would recommend it to anyone, although I'm sure that most study guides are fairly equivalent. What really makes the biggest difference is the time and effort you're willing to devote to studying this or any other guide.

Great book but order way in advance

This book is great, it has a lot of excercises but be sure to have enough time to study, at least 2 months, before the exam.Most of the exercises are of equal or high complexity as the actual exam.This is the book to study from.