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 - Not the best preparationFirst of all, do not use this book as your only means of studying--it only contains practice tests with brief answer explanations. I would recommend the "Cracking the GRE Psycholgy" by Princton Review in addition to reviewing your old text books. Second, after taking the actual GRE psychology test, I realized that the tests in "The Best Test Preparation for the GRE Psychology Test" are not very representative of the actual thing. The tests in this book contain a lot of "none of the above, all of the above, only A and B, only C and D" type questions. There were none of these on the actual test. These questions made it more difficult to practice process of elimination techniques and made the questions more difficult to make educated guesses on (which you will be doing a lot of on the actual exam). Perhaps this book would be helpful in learning to pace yourself and building up stamina for such a lengthy test, but I would recommend getting practice tests from ETS rather than a company who "bases test questions off of ETS questions." Rating: - The Best Test Preparation for the GRE Psychology TestAfter taking the GRE, I realize that this book did not help me in my preparations. All it managed to do was upset me into thinking I was going to do terrible on the exam. The questions were 10x harder than the exam itself. Also, to my chagrine, the book did not have any review outlines in it - an essential part of test preparation. Rating:  - THUMBS DOWN!All that this book contains are practice tests, which although helpful, are not sufficient review material. There is no review section, and answers to questions are not well explained, despite what the author's might think. The answers only discuss the correct answer, and do define the other terms or indicate why they are wrong. As well, the test questions are not broken down into subtests, even for scoring purposes, so they are of little diagnostic help. Rating:  - Just what you need!An excellent book because all you really need to study for the psych GREs is a good introductory psych textbook and and some practice tests that this book provides. I should know, I scored a 99th percentile! page 1 of 1
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