Is Peterson’s a good study guide to use for the GRE?
August 9th, 2009 | 
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Please reply asap as this is urgent. I’ve been using Peterson’s to prepare for my general subject GRE test which is on September 9th for a while now but my cousin who aced her GRE’s (just started her master’s at Harvard University last month) recently suggested that I use the Princeton Review, Kaplan or Barron’s. She didn’t mention Peterson’s so I don’t know if I should take that to mean that Peterson’s is not a very good guide to use for studying.
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I haven’t heard of Peterson’s. I’ve been using Princeton Review, Kaplan, ETS, AND Barron’s. (I have my favorites, but they’re all similar.) I’d suggest you go to the bookstore and see if Peterson’s is similar. You might also want to pick up a second book.
Don’t worry. I haven’t used Peterson’s myself, but the general quality of all the major books — Kaplan, PR, Peterson’s — is about the same.
But don’t take my word for it, grab a copy of the official GRE book, do a couple tests outta there, and judge for yourself. The downside is that all but one of the tests therein lack answer explanations. But if you work to understand the ones you got wrong, and hire ask a mathy-friend to explain the rest, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
Big picture: how you study matters much more than what you study. Focus on the questions you get wrong, and, after you forget them, come back and re-do (not re-view) them. The third or fourth time through, the problem type will suddenly click, and you’ll never get that sort of problem wrong on the actual test. Otherwise, the stuff you learn is likely to be forgotten.
- brandon, rose from a 1370 to 1530