Verbal Workout for the GMAT

by Douglas French

WE KNOW THE GMAT The experts at The Princeton Review take the GMAT year after year to make sure you get the most up-to-date, thoroughly researched book possible.??This book contains a comprehensive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375754172
• ISBN13: 9780375754173
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Princeton Review
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Neat and Concise

I feel the book is a must for anyone who wants to improve his verbal score. The book is written in a laidback, easy-going ,fun-loving manner which is such a welcome change from the traditional style of most of the other GMAT books that proliferate the market . The tips are very handy and the sample essays provided are a big help in improving your AWA score. For a little over 10 dollars, the book is worth every penny. Go for it.

Excellent Verbal Help for GMAT

I was having difficulty getting the verbal parts down tight. This book lets me DRILL, which is the way I learn best. If you need to increase your verbal score on the GMAT, and you're still below the 85 percentile, this book can probably help you move your score up. It's sure helped me

Coverage of all the important topics

I am an engineer, hence strong in the quantitative section of the GMAT, weaker in the verbal section. Or so I thought until I purchased this book.The Verbal Workout book covers all three types of verbal questions (Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension). The author leads you by the hand and feeds you with very useful, very applicable information. No fluff and no screwing about, let's just get down to it.The author doesn't pretend to do all the work for the student. In fact, just reading this book will get you nowhere. But after applying yourself to the exercises and tackling some real questions (the GMAT Official Guide is a MUST have to get full advantage from this book) with the techniques provided, you will find an improvement in your scores. I did.The book is well laid out, well thought out and well edited; I haven't found any errors or contentious problems in it yet!This book is a star performer, and I have others to grade it against (Arco's Teach Yourself the GMAT CAT 2000 Edtn, Official Guide, 800score.com on-line guide, etc).Add it to your collection if you're serious about improving your verbal score.

Strengthen your verbal score

Without doubt, Princeton Review has the developed the best approach to taking the GMAT Verbal section. This book is a microcosm of their expensive test-prep course. So if you wish to build up your verbal and critical reasoning skills this book will prove invaluable. I looked at other test-prep books, but PR was the only one that got me to understand what the critical reasoning questions were really asking. Thanks to PR my verbal score rose from the 65-percentile to the 93-percentile.

Targets verbal section perfectly

I feel so lucky to have found this book. I didn't need to work on my performance on the quant section of the GMAT, so I was specifically looking for a guide to help me increase my accuracy on the verbal section. This book was exactly what I needed; detailed explanations of how to solve verbal problems and targeted practice. I also appreciated the author's cynical approach to the test itself, which I think helped me to relax about the whole thing, which in turn helped me perform better on the test. I'm going to post anonymously, so I guess I can say that my score went up 70 points, and that's without having done any work on quant. This book is easily worth the price.