<p>I'm planning on taking the GRE in September or October of 2007, after the revised test gets implemented. Does anyone know if the popular prep books, particularly Barron's, have taken into account the changes yet? I can't seem to find an answer online</p>
<p>Hi. I am a HS senior, and I want to begin my GRE prep right away so I don't get a 380v again. What prep books do you recommend?</p>
<p>Happy: Keep an eye on the ETS web site since things will appear there first. There is already an example test I believe.</p>
<p>Also, for what its worth, I found that the ETS practice material was MUCH closer to the real thing for the current adaptive test. (Not too surprising I suppose.) The "PowerPrep" practice was almost identical in fact.</p>
<p>lil: Relax - The GRE is designed to be taken by people with two or three years of college behind them. The amount of reading and writing you'll do in your first couple years of college will do far more for your score than beating your brains out on some word list. Besides, the GRE is nowhere near as important for grad school as the SAT is for undergrad.</p>
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<p>actually, lil_killer129, it might sound kinda crazy, but it might actually not be such a bad idea to take your GRE soon if you're planning to apply to grad schools in 3-4 years (first, check the websites of some grad schools to see if your GRE scores can last that long without expiring, though). I don't think that anything you learn during college really prepares you that much for the GRE, and now that SATI has writing included, it's really very similar in format to the GREs. When I studied for the SAT's in 1999, I crammed hundreds of vocab. words, and when I studied for the GRE's in 2005, I crammed those same hundreds of words (many of which I had forgotten), so you might save a lot of repeated work if your SAT knowledge is still fresh in your mind ... the math section doesn't require any college-level knowledge, and neither does the writing section.</p>
<p>I used the Kaplan book, but pretty much anything works --- just check out a few at the bookstore :) Best of luck.</p>
<p>lil_killer29: i think you'll change after or during college and the GRE is likely to change in the next couple of years. take it easy. well u can use gre book to study for sat but by the time u really take gre it will be like starting over again.</p>
<p>Is the PR book good for the GRE? I really need to get into PSU grad. I don't want to come out of PSU undergrad with no job and money. My friend is a Junior in HS, and he already started studying a few hours per day for his MCAT [whatever this is].</p>
<p>You and your friend need to seriously chill out. My god.</p>
<p>Don't take this the wrong way. But if you spend your life gunning and don't stop to smell the roses a bit, not only will you miss an awful lot, but you may wake up one day (probably after spending days studying for your grad prelims) and realize this is not what you want. An expensive way to find out, for sure.</p>
<p>Stop prepping for the GRE. And for god's sake, tell your friend to put down the MCAT prep books and run away. It's a waste of time. My husband took the MCAT as a junior in college with very little prep, because he learned it in his college classes, and blew away most of the people that took it that year. So. Stop. Test. Prepping. Now.</p>
<p>Believe me, you'll be happier for it.</p>
<p>I did not really like the PR GRE book. The examples of questions in it were far easier than what the actual GRE questions.</p>