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IonMoon -> RE: GRE study guides (12/30/2007 7:14:08 PM)
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I took mine in Dec 04, I believe (Wow! Was it THAT long ago?!?). I had Peterson and Kaplan. One, I don't remember which, was GRE/GMAT. They were both good and the biggest help to me was the vocab lists. I memorized both and did very well on the language portion. I suggest starting with the top 100 lists that are out there and then if time permits, just learn them all! Both books were good, and they were different enough that I was glad to have used both. I made flash cards for the words with a short- one-five word definition and a sample sentence. I sorted them in different ways- like matching synonymns or antonyms, forming analogies, etc. rather than just rote memory. I kept them in my pocket and pulled them out every time I had a free minute. Nearly EVERY word I ran into on the test was on these lists (and, as a trivial side note, I read "Wicked" at the time and EVERY page had at least 1 GRE word- I think he did it on purpose).
I made the mistake of just skimming the math because everyone said it was so easy. I ended up skimming parts that were the most prevalent on my exam and studying in more depth the parts that I got only a few of [:@].
My actual scores were within the range of my practice tests from both books, I believe the Kaplan was more accurate. The practice tests on the CD that comes when you sign up for the GRE, however was SPOT ON.
The math section on the cd also more accurately portrayed what was on the test, IME, compared to the books.
Unfortunately, I registered late, so only had one weekend to work on the cd. I suggest registering early!!
The analytic writing section was a joke. I didn't spend much time/energy on it, because I knew no one was going to even look at it, though they may pay more attention to it now.
Good Luck!
Tara P
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