Product Description

Whether you’re a college senior or someone who graduated years ago, you’ll want this friendly guide to help you ace the GRE and get into the grad school of your choice. Suzee Vlk, a test–prep guru with nearly thirty years of coaching experience supplies you with:

• Up–to–date sample questions
• Two complete practice tests
• Guidance on how to approach each type of question
• Tips on how to avoid test tricks and traps
• Relaxation techniques that keep you calm and focused
• Hints on how to beat the clock
• Comprehensive reviews of the basics in all categories

With Suzee as your guide, you’ll discover how to think the GRE. You’ll identify the point behind each of the various styles and types of questions and understand what each is meant to test. And you’ll gain the confidence you need to:

• Have the last word on sentence completions, antonyms, analogies, reading comprehension, and analytical writing questions
• Take the full measure of the geometry and algebra questions
• Hand in an incomparable performance on quantitative comparison and problem–solving questions

Revised to address the test’s new computer–adaptive format, The GRE Test For Dummies arms you with everything you need to vanquish the beast standing between you and the graduate program of your choice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #320677 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Back Cover
Features test–taking tricks and relaxation tips

Prepare for the test quickly and painlessly and fine–tune your skills

Whether you’re a college senior or someone who graduated years ago, you’ll want this friendly guide to help you ace the GRE and get into grad school. Revised to address the test’s new computer–adaptive format, this book prepares you for everything from analogies to algebra to analytical writing – with plenty of hints for beating the clock!

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear–out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
Suzee Vlk has taught test preparation for more than 25 years. She is the author of more than 10 test preparation guides in the For Dummies series.

Customer Reviews

Worked Well For Me
This book is more useful than the other main GRE guides out there, such as Kaplan's. It's entertaining and accessibly written, as you'd expect, but also covers an awful lot of ground very quickly.

One quick note of warning: the practice tests, in my experience and that of others who have taken the GRE, are slightly skewed. In reality, the Quantitative section will be slightly easier than depicted in this book, and the Linguistic parts are in fact significantly harder than they appear here.

Bear that in mind, and you'll find this a very good preparation for the exam.

It's all you need.
Perfectly adequate, full of helpful tips. Nothing on the exam was a suprise. What more could one ask for. Don't waste your money on anything else.

A Good Strategy Book
I agree with the below reviews in that this is a very good strategy book. The dummies book is not written for dummies but is written in an intertaining and logical way. I do have a couple of critical comments, however. First, I think something is lacking in the verbal section. Susan Vri's idea is that you must only study the roots of words as opposed to memorizing a whole bunch of words. While I found her "root strategy" to be very helpful, I still missed the obligatory word list. So I bought a GRE verb book and memorized 900 words. Believe, this can be done in a week, if you do it in a systematic way. Secondly, her math section was not structured in a logical way. She presupposed certain knowledge when explaining. Later, she would reveal that knowledge which impeded you understanding in the previous section. I felt that I needed to supplement her book with another math books.