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 - Very Helpful Study GuideThe Kaplan guide was a very helpful study guide. I am a good test taker, but this guide offered great test-taking tips as well as study tips. The vocab I learned from the guide was actually on the test! Rating:  - Online component not available till JuneShame on Amazon (but I can't leave a bad review for them) for not mentioning that the online component isn't available for premier package 2008 users until 1 June. I realize there are only a few days to go but that information would've been helpful last month when I ordered the book. The book has alot of test taking strategy but I won't know how effective it is until I take the GRE. I guess its alright if you can get past the abundant self-promotion from Kaplan. Every other sentence is promoting Kaplan or advertising some other Kaplan product you can spend money on. Rating:  - Comprehensive and Good TipsThis book offers lots of little tips for studying, explains how to approach the different types of problems. I found it interesting reading. At least as interesting as it can get given the subject matter. Rating: - GOOD FOR ORGANIZATIONIt was a good product for organizing study time, etc. I didn't like that it didn't give me a score on the tests. It gave me a % correct. I couldn't translate this to 200-800...Overall, it was helpful. Rating: - Great investment!I'm so glad I ordered this book! I always read reviews exhaustively before I ever purchase books, so I picked this one out. My review is just of the beginning of the book (I just started it), but I feel like it's so good I can't wait to tell people that they should get it! I graduated with a 3.something Bachelor's degree and have been out of school, and pretty much out of a real job, for a couple years now. Finally I figured out that I want to get a Masters, but I've been out of it for so long- I needed help! So I just started this book the other day from page one. What I love about it is that it is going through everything I need to know in an honest, cool conversational style that isn't putting me to sleep. Yet the language and content is still intelligent- unlike other "Dummies"- type guides that kind of talk to you like you're, well, a dummy... and have no common sense or basic knowledge. Also, it tells you how the test grading works- the test itself is a dynamic computer program that changes difficulty/ amount of points you can get for a limited number of question- so you can trick it out to get the most points for what you know without having to be a genius. Also, the book is so logical, it's like, "Oh, that's why I suck at these questions! And here's the way you're supposed to think about the questions to get them right. And here are the tricks (well, it's logic, not really tricks) for how to guess the right answer- even if you have no clue!!!" Sweet. There's also a section on how to get into grad school- sweeeeet for the clueless like myself. So the first 50 pages of the book are awesome so far. I think the rest will be, too. I haven't looked at the math stuff yet. I actually ordered another couple math books- the one review one with the giant pi on the cover and the blue EZ Solutions Math Strategies one for getting them done faster. Grad School or bust! Was this too long? I hope it helped! In association with Amazon.com | |