<p>Hi everyone.
I plan on taking the GRE test in August and I need information on the best practice material to use. I scored 149 on the quantitative section and 154 on the verbal section of the PowerPrep practice test. I consider those scores really weak. I want to score in the 98th-99th percentiles on the test. I am considering buying three books: </p>
<p>Cracking the GRE, 2013 Publisher: The Princeton Review</p>
<p>GRE Premier, 2013
Publisher: Kaplan </p>
<p>The Official Guide to the GRE Revised General Test Publisher: ETS
Please inform me on the best books to buy and how to study. Thank you.</p>
<p>I bought the official ETS book, comes with four free real tests (two paper and two on disc). Also comes with a bunch of practice questions in easy, medium, and hard for verbal and quantitative, and six example essays for examples of what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-scored essays are like. Thirty-five bucks at B&N.</p>
<p>I’d recommend taking advantage of the free tests that ETS offers on their website (don’t even have to buy the book! I heard most of the material in the book can be found online). They have a paper test and an online version. </p>
<p>Personally, I’ve been using Magoosh (Magoosh.com) and they actually make studying fun. It’s $100, but they offer around 1000 practice questions, video explanations to each of them and up to 4 practice tests (pooled from the practice questions). There’s a dashboard that will give you a predicted score range, so it’s fun to keep studying and see the range increase. Also, just a note, their questions are generally on the more challenging side which will be helpful to master and go into the GREs with that knowledge.</p>
<p>I just started using Kaplan because my girlfriend bought it. It’s not bad for the verbal section, I guess (no expert there). The practice questions for the quantitative section are on the easy side. I just bought NOVA math prep since I read it was the best for math practice and I’d rather not get anything less than a perfect score. I’ll be going over the free math pdf they have on the ETS website first to refresh myself, but I think most of my fragmented high school knowledge has gotten me rather far doing practice questions without prior review. The verbal section I was annihilated by Kaplan’s first round of practice questions. Time to start memorizing vocabulary.</p>
<p>i agree with caldud…kaplan is decent for verbal but nothing great especially because some of the words are totally outlandish…for verbal i’m using GRE verbal grail and it seems to be more in sync with the actual GRE. I’m not bothered too much about Math scores but GRE math is quite easy i think…got a 164 on the diagnostic test itself that i took before i started my prep</p>
<p>Princeton Review: Word Smart, provides root word breakdown also
Manhattan Prep: Reading Comprehension &/ 5 LB book
Barron’s: GRE Math, Essential Words, GRE (20th ed)
Kaplan vocab flashcards, Powerprep 2 tests: planning to take the second before I sit.
Think Kaplan goes too easy on the math.</p>
<p>use the Manhattan Prep 5 lb book of GRE practice problems to prepare for the math. Their problems are excellent for teaching you how to think and there are a crapton of them. Also, practice taking the test with the Powerprep II software on the ETS website. Getting used to the test is a huge advantage.</p>
<p>For the GRE test, the best books in 2014-2015 are:-
1-The Official Guide to the GRE R G Test, 2nd Ed. (I recommend this because the practice tests questions are from the actual thing and it is helpful guide).
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