I am looking for a good GRE prep book. Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I have more than one?
August 31st, 2009 | 
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Hi and welcome to my blog,
I opened this blog to help anyone who is preparing for his GRE exam.
I remember myself when I started - I was so lost and in such a panic.
Luckily I got this great Gre guide that helped me a lot
So study hard and good luck!
I am studying Art History, if subject makes a difference. This being said I am no good at my math and sciences!
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science isn’t tested so don’t worry. gre verbal is mostly vocab and the math is only up to high school level. this one article has good advice about what you should look for in a gre book, and the other has advice about test stress. what books work best depends on your strengths and how you study, but more than one book never hurt.
my advice is to take lots of practice tests. that way you’ll get used to the question types. after a while the questions will all seem very similar and your confidence will improve. i also think you’ll find that once you start studying, the math concepts will come back to you.
since there’s no calculator allowed on the GRE, you should practice simple things like times tables and long division. make math flash cards to go along with the vocab cards.
good luck
I used Kaplan’s book, the GRE Premier program 2009. Studied about 2 hrs a day for 3 weeks, scores: Verbal: 540, Quantitative: 790.
another good resource is http://www.gredic.com – great for learning vocab
There are several very good test prep books, see source below. However, I took the GRE and got a very high score by using this method – one I recommend to students and friends. Go to the library and check out children’s or young adult books in all the subject areas. These books hit all the highlights (need to know) information on the subject. The GRE rarely asks questions about little known or obscure facts. They want you to exhibit a broad knowledge of the most important content in each area. This is exactly what is covered in a children’s or YA book on the topic. You’ll also find those books much less dense to read and more enjoyable to study so you can easily read 3 or 4 books on each topic. Also, you don’t have to pick and choose which facts are the most important. All the facts in these books are the most important ones. Good luck on the test.