Can I use an older study guide to prepare for the GRE?

I’m thinking of purchasing a few study guides online to study for the GRE. I’m wondering if it would be alright to purchase older editions of study guides from a few years ago. Were there any changes to the test that would deter me from buying an older edition? How far back can I go?

Thanks for your help.

GRE study guides, need a little help please?

Hi everyone out there in cyber world,

I live in the UK and am at a UK university for my undergrad degree. Next year I’d like to go to grad school in the US so I gather I need to sit some extra tests to apply for that- the GRE general and the GRE physics tests. Since this concept of extra tests for postgrad study is completely alien to me over here I think I will need to get a couple of study guides for these two tests. I was hoping to sit the tests in mid November since then that should give me a month to get results back and complete applications for the earliest deadlines.

Could anyone advise me on the best study guides to get? There seem to be a few on the internet available. I need something that explains the whole sort of principles of these tests as well as tells me everything I need to know (or at least outlines it in enough detail so that I could then use other books). There isn’t anyone over here who knows anything about these so I can’t just pop along to ask what I need to learn next. If these requirements aren’t all met by one individual book then are the perhaps pairs you’d recommend?

Also, any study/exam tips? How much onus do the universities place on these tests? It would seem strange to me that they would consider them more important than the grades you have been getting during your courses for the last 3/4 years?!

Thanks for your help

What is the best Booklet and/or CD prep guide for the GRE?

I have to take the GRE near the end of November. I have around 5-6 weeks to prepare (I know, not that much time!) My university had been offering free classes for prep but for some strange reason they all ended last week and they don’t seem to be offering a new session. So that plan has been shot and now I need to prepare on my own, which I hate doing. I think I would learn best from doing a CD program (I did this for the ACT and my score was amazing); one with little exercises and progress or whatever. I especially need to have good practice at this math because I tested out of all the required math hours for my major so I haven’t studied math in 4 years. I am great at math, but it is all forumula memorization/practice and I since it has been so long I really need to review this. Any suggestions, anyone know of just such a computer program? Where can they be bought- Barnes and Noble? Best Buy? etc… thanks for your help!!