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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9781890982041 ISBN: 1890982040 Label: Easy-Prep Manufacturer: Easy-Prep Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 2004-09 Publisher: Easy-Prep Studio: Easy-Prep Related Items:
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 Rating: - helpful, but terrible timing!I searched and searched for flashcards to boost my GRE verbal score and Easy Prep is what I found. I decided to order all 4 sets and I paid priority shipping because I was heading out of town for a few weeks. I ordered 2 weeks before my scheduled vacation. I called after one week because I hadn't received an email confirmation and they didn't answer. I called the next week and the gentleman informed me that he'd sent them out, but that the company was having some financial difficulties and were getting ... Read More Rating:  - Good for beginners, but not for fine-tuningThese flash cards are useful if you're really haven't been exposed to the words, but they're not good for fine-tuning your understanding. They'd be good for a non-native speaker or a beginner-- they might take you from a 400 to a 600 score, but not a 600 to 800. The problem is that the definitions are oversimplified: for example, compare their definition of "acumen" as "insightfulness" or "diffident" as "lacking self-confidence" to the definition in a good dictionary, and you'll see how much nuance is ... Read More Rating:  - effective way of studying GREIn my opinon, these flash cards are pretty effective. If you are trying to memorize words from a list you usually remember the positions of the word on the paper. However using these flash cards, you can shuffle to solve this problem. Moreover, I needed to contact to customer service once, they really helped me in a professinoal manner. I have ordered three sets, and when I have received them, I was a little upset because of the handy carry bags. They were using these bags everywhere as an advertisement, ... Read More Rating: - Functional, not very well madeThese cards do as they're advertised, but the quality isn't that exceptional. The printing is crude/obviously word-processed, and they're printed on cheap and relatively fragile paper stock. Rating: - Good vocab prepI found the High frequency words pretty useful, and I think these words only matter anyway. Only I find carrying the flash cards and flashing them around a pain, and they write GEEK all over me. I actually found this cool application that works on the cell phone and has tough GRE words. Google with "GRE tough words" to find it. Best part I liked about it was that the words are on-the-mark and app is well designed for cell phone use. 
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