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 - Great book for people who want to brush up math skills !!I am writing this after trying different books and methods at teaching math for people who want to take GRE. What I have seen and experienced is that this book breaks the concepts down into lucid and simple terms and walks the person through each step. It has been a very good tool atleast for me during my teaching. My student was able to understand the concepts when they just looked at how it was solved. It is good for beginners and for people who have relatively less background in math. Rating:  - The Perfect ReviewI have been doing math continuously in college, but even then, I could not remember how to do the basics required of the GRE. This book was a perfect way to get reacquainted with the technical minutia, and even if I knew it, the book gave me the practice I needed to do the math quickly and efficiently. I would highly recommend this as a refresher, but it is too easy as a primary course of study for the quantitative section. The best part is all the problems are explained in detail, so one can simply follow along. THe entire book took me a week to do, and it was definitely worth purchasing along with another GRE book. Although the other books go through reviews as well, they just teach you the questions on the test. However, you won't get them if you can't manipulate numbers quickly enough, and thereby you won't have the ability to go through the more diffcult questions. Rating: - Thought all math texts were horrid...until this book.I am working on studying and taking my GMAT exam and I always struggled with math. I found a lot of this was due to the fact that incompetent individuals taught and ONLY showed you the text book examples which only managed to show the EASIEST question. For example what do you do with polynomials with inverse exponents if you (like me) don't generally toil with text book math in my spare time I learned with this book though that it is the material and how it is presented. The author is very helpful and everything is broken down so you can observe multiple problems and then practice them. At the end of each section you can practice what you learned to ensure that you have the hang of it. The lessons make sense, steps are generally not skipped. While I can't say that the information therein will allow me to break the 700 mark (hey i'm too practical...can't justify the 45k for the top tier schools requiring these scores...it's JUST school I've looked at a lot of different prep resources and most of them I find are lacking. X=34 and there is like no explanation nor any tips with how you got that. With the 4th purchase of GMAT study guide books...still go back to this one. I'm working with the GMAT prep software, this text, and McGraw Hill's GMAT study book (stay away from the GMAT Baron's study guide!!!!)...and between the three resources...should be good to go. In conclusion, after spending a few hours researching texts out there and about 20 hours working through it question by question, I have no reservations in recommending this book to those that have any questions/concerns or desire to ensure your math is bulletproof on the GMAT. It teaches you from the basics (most math is based on simple algebra and arithmetic and if you have picked up bad habits over the years... Rating: - Good study guideThis guide helped bring my score up. There are some things I really liked about it and some things I really hated about it Liked- Started at the very basics and worked your way up. Disliked- Didn't explain all of the problems. If you got them wrong you had to figure why yourself (typical math book skipping steps) and there were a lot of mistakes in the book Overall, if you have forgotten everything you learned in 7th and 8th grade math get this guide it will really help you prepare for the GRE's Rating: - Well Worth It!I'm self-proclaimed "Math Stupid." It had been nearly 5 years since my last basic algebra course and I had forgotten it all, so I purchassed this book in order to "relearn all my math" for the GRE. I gave myself roughly a month to steadily work through the book's sections and practice questions...and walked away with a great understanding and ability. I even learned things that didn't make sense to me throughout highschool or college. The format of this GRE/GMAT math review is very easy to follow. It gradually builds on itself and has fantastic, clear, easy-to-understand explanations. There are also several full-length practice tests. If you need to relearn your math/algebra/geometry for the GRE or GMAT, do not rely on the brief math reviews in general study guides: the ARCO GRE/GMAT Math Review will start you from scratch and, before you know it, you will know what you're doing! (I scored higher on math than verbal because of this book...and I have an English degree!!) In association with Amazon.com | |