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| | Description | An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam. This revised and updated test preparation guide presents 800 college-graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam, while also familiarizing test takers with how the words are generally used in various contexts.
Additional features include a pretest that serves as a diagnostic, a lengthy word list with extensive sentence-completion exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a detailed posttest. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the posttest. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Philip Geer | | Paperback: | 400 pages | | Publisher: | Barron's Educational Series | | Publication Date: | July 01, 2010 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0764144782 | | Product Length: | 9.0 inches | | Product Width: | 6.0 inches | | Product Height: | 0.7 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.17 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 44 reviews |
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47 of 47 found the following review helpful:
 All GRE takers should buy this. Now. And rush the shipping. Feb 27, 2011
By AKB
I just finished taking the GRE last month - I had only 3 weeks to study because of an administrative glitch, so I needed a good resource and some quick shipping (thanks, Amazon). For my overall study guide, I picked Princeton Review based on previous use of their products and the overall positive reviews, and I was generally very pleased with it and its ability to help me work through the entire test prep matter in 3 weeks. That said, I could not have achieved my verbal score of 770 without this book from Barron's. I'm actually not sure I would have come closer than 700-720....it's that good. A reviewer for the Princeton Review general guide recommended this Barron book and I must second that review and all other five-star reviews here. The word list is EXTREMELY comprehensive and the exercises and 10-word unit breakdown really help you learn. I wound up going unit by unit. For each one, I'd read all the words and definitions and identify the ones I didn't know (or didn't "really" know...maybe I had a hunch but not a clear sense). For those unknown words, I wrote them down in a notebook, with a definition in my own words and a sentence I made up myself (Barron's also has sentences which will help you understand the word better but I think making up your own definitions and sentences and then writing them down helps it sink in). After working through all 80 units (whew) I turned to the notebook list of "trouble" words and basically quizzed myself and had others quiz me in multiple rounds, where in each round I highlighted the words I still didn't know, until that list got smaller and smaller and then disappeared. It was a lot to do in three weeks but Barron's really helped me focus. Seriously - get this book and you will maximize your score. For people like me whose verbal and essay scores are most important, this book is really worth the time it takes to work through. Get it! Get it now! Good luck, everyone!
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Great help! Jan 01, 2011
By Tracy
After taking a few GRE practice tests, I determined that my score was being lowered because I didn't know the definitions of certain words at all, making it quite difficult to discern the correct answer! I figured any improvement in my vocabulary would help on the test. I took the words in the book and made flash cards of the ones I didn't know. They really helped! I am going to continue trying to learn more words from this book so I can be a better scholar.
I was averaging around 550-600 before using this book, and I ended up with a 660 Verbal score after learning these words. I would highly recommend this book!
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 great book but not enough for higher score! Nov 18, 2010
By U. Salim
In order to score 1400 or higher this set of words might not be enough. I learned the entire 800 list and maybe a 100 more from here and there but there were still few words that I didnt know on the actual test.
However, this is a great book. The words are explained and used in a sentence. Then there is a mini quiz after every 10 words which is extremely beneficial.
This is an extremely must have book but dont rely on it completely. If you have time and you are motivated enough, look for other word lists, e.g princeton review ones.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
GREAT for the New GRE (a few analogies included) Sep 21, 2011
By xot98
This book has been a hit with GRE students since the first edition came out in 2007. It greatly increases verbal reasoning scores. The general scholarship and selection of words that appear with high frequency on the test put this book far ahead of other GRE vocabulary prep books on the market.
Both editions that Amazon sells (2007 and 2010) were published before the GRE format changed in 2011, so a few examples of analogies and antonyms (these had not yet been dropped from the test) still appear in the introductory material, pretest and posttest; however, they do not appear anywhere else in the book. The main part of the book focuses on teaching the essential GRE words and their meanings using excellent illustrative sentences and quality exercises which are a mix of true/false, matching, and sentence completions.
Serious students want to improve their vocabulary to score well in the new verbal reasoning section of the GRE, and Essential Words for the GRE achieves results for them. The few examples of analogies and antonyms do not in any way detract from the effectiveness of this excellent book!
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Practice, Practice, Practice May 19, 2011
By SA1230
As a teacher, I can attest that this review book is effective in large part because of the layout of the book and the amount of practice that it offers each reader.
Regarding the layout, the structure is quite simple: The book has 800 high frequency words divided into 80 units of 10 words each. The words are conveniently alphabetically ordered in categories such as the following: abate to abstinence, abysmal-affinity, etc.
Then within each unit you will find definitions of all 10 words in addition to sentence examples with the key words embedded. All of this is followed by LOTS OF PRACTICE:
1) A matching section
2) A fill in the blank section
3) A sense or nonsense section (Based on your understanding of the new vocabulary, you have to read whole sentences and assess completely if they make sense).
At this point you, the reader, have read the definitions, seen examples of how they fit in sentences and completed three forms of practice.
That's the equivalent of 5 levels of exposure and it's given to you in bite size chunks that you can digest within 10 minutes each. This level of repetition and exposure flat out works!
In fact, this type of learning would work extremely well for some of the English language learners (students who struggle with English) that I teach, because they require much practice to truly internalize vocabulary. I suspect that if you are looking to cram and forget the words right after the exam then simple flash cards would be better suited. That said, I think that this book's structure and amount of practice make it a pretty fail safe solution to improving your reading comprehension score via vocabulary memorization.
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