Customer Rating: 
Summary: very useful !!!
Comment: the book was shipped immediately by the seller, and was indeed very useful to study for GRE !!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A solid math workbook for the math challenged
Comment: I am not a math genius by any means! This book is a great refresher and review of all of that high school math you tried to block out of your mind. Not to mention it provides a rationale to the answers (which is somthing that I most certainly benefit from).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shouldn't have started with this...
Comment: This book didn't really work for me. One of the things that frustrated me most was that the information provided in the chapters (which is really long and which I read all of) didn't prepare me much at all for the practice questions/tests or for the questions I saw on the actual GRE. I spent practically all of my allotted study time reading these long chapters thinking they would fill me in on what I don't know about math (which is a lot), but really they just cover the most basic things in the GRE-impractical order of theme (arithmetic, algebra, geometry), without giving you a clue how to decide what skills to use on the more complex problems of the GRE (fine, I understand how to use FOIL, but I have no idea how to figure out when to use it on the test). Another problem is that the explanations in the answer key are hard to understand (the jump between the difficulty level of the chapter information and the problems/explanations in most of the chapters is so great it seems like they weren't written together at all), and there are also mistakes in the answer key (#7 in the lines and angles test, for example). I also found it annoying that the author of the chapters seems more concerned with providing his/her version of a solid background in basic GRE-level math than with actually preparing us for the test (for example, insisting on using math terms instead of plain English in situations where plain English would work just as well, or including unnecessary information - on page 35, "you'll never actually have to calculate the standard deviation on test day, but here's how it's calculated...," etc.). In retrospect, I really wish I had started with the free GRE Powerprep software and its Math Review, which is a 69-page free pdp file. What I used of Kaplan's Premier Edition book/CD also seemed pretty good. Maybe after all of that, if I'd had months to study, the difficult practice questions in this math workbook could have been handy. Reading it from the beginning like I did, though, was a terrible waste of my time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Generally good
Comment: I havent taken the GRE yet but this book seems to be helpful. It provides a brief overview of every little piece that we should know to tackle the real GRE ( as my friend said) and plus the answers are clear to understand + some tips are helpful as well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: arp_review
Comment: This book is of immense help.I have to take the exam shortly and this book will give me a lot of Math practice.
Summary: very useful !!!
Comment: the book was shipped immediately by the seller, and was indeed very useful to study for GRE !!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A solid math workbook for the math challenged
Comment: I am not a math genius by any means! This book is a great refresher and review of all of that high school math you tried to block out of your mind. Not to mention it provides a rationale to the answers (which is somthing that I most certainly benefit from).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shouldn't have started with this...
Comment: This book didn't really work for me. One of the things that frustrated me most was that the information provided in the chapters (which is really long and which I read all of) didn't prepare me much at all for the practice questions/tests or for the questions I saw on the actual GRE. I spent practically all of my allotted study time reading these long chapters thinking they would fill me in on what I don't know about math (which is a lot), but really they just cover the most basic things in the GRE-impractical order of theme (arithmetic, algebra, geometry), without giving you a clue how to decide what skills to use on the more complex problems of the GRE (fine, I understand how to use FOIL, but I have no idea how to figure out when to use it on the test). Another problem is that the explanations in the answer key are hard to understand (the jump between the difficulty level of the chapter information and the problems/explanations in most of the chapters is so great it seems like they weren't written together at all), and there are also mistakes in the answer key (#7 in the lines and angles test, for example). I also found it annoying that the author of the chapters seems more concerned with providing his/her version of a solid background in basic GRE-level math than with actually preparing us for the test (for example, insisting on using math terms instead of plain English in situations where plain English would work just as well, or including unnecessary information - on page 35, "you'll never actually have to calculate the standard deviation on test day, but here's how it's calculated...," etc.). In retrospect, I really wish I had started with the free GRE Powerprep software and its Math Review, which is a 69-page free pdp file. What I used of Kaplan's Premier Edition book/CD also seemed pretty good. Maybe after all of that, if I'd had months to study, the difficult practice questions in this math workbook could have been handy. Reading it from the beginning like I did, though, was a terrible waste of my time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Generally good
Comment: I havent taken the GRE yet but this book seems to be helpful. It provides a brief overview of every little piece that we should know to tackle the real GRE ( as my friend said) and plus the answers are clear to understand + some tips are helpful as well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: arp_review
Comment: This book is of immense help.I have to take the exam shortly and this book will give me a lot of Math practice.