<p>Anyone have any thoughts on which to purchase?</p>
<p>I was planning to take the GRE during the summer, and apply in the fall. Wanted to get cracking on the GRE, but have no idea which book is better and what not. You know, there's the princeton review, the kaplan, etc.</p>
<p>Oh, and I wasn't planning on doing any Kaplan course or something. Too expensive.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Don't get Princeton Review (the math section is too bare). I suggest getting the Kaplan test prep, it's the most comprehensive IMO.</p>
<p>I used the Princeton WordSmart book for vocab, it was pretty useful if you're short on study time for GRE. However, if you have lots of time, the Barron's word list is awesome.</p>
<p>The Barron's list is indeed awesome for the GRE.</p>
<p>I actually used an SAT book to review for the math (SAT math is a little more in-depth than GRE math, believe it or not). It was called Gruber's. I put their "101 Math Questions" on flash cards and I thought it helped. Flash cards especially helped me get ready for the computerized test, I thought, because staring at a card felt a little like staring at a screen. </p>
<p>Finally, there's no substitute for the real GRE book of real material (published by ETS).</p>
<p>The real GRE book suggests that you might see a bunch of stats stuff on the test, though...it even suggests that you memorize the formula for standard deviation (!) which caused me to panic. In fact, though, I didn't see anything that hard on the test. All this by way of suggesting that you not panic when you hit the stats material (which I did).</p>
<p>For the Math section I highly recommend Cliffs Math Review for the Standardized Tests. You can check out its rating on Amazon.
As for the review book I prefer Barrons. But don't just rely on one review, you can look into a variety of them. (Borrow from the library if you want to save money).</p>
<p>I felt that for the math part - the Kaplan's Math Review is really effective (lots of practice questions), also you might want to look into mygretutor.com - it is $5 and has tons of practice questions -- Princeton Review book is great as well and I would get the ETS 10th edition (its actually pretty easy compared to the real GRE, but you get a basis of what the test questions will be like)</p>
<p>Barrons is the best IMO, I looked through a bunch of books to try to find the best one. I needed a good math score and barrons looked like it suited my needs best. Ended up cleaning house on the quant section, each question felt great. No surprise questions. The verbal on the other hand I don't know, I did pretty bad on that section. I don't know if I can blame the book for that because I'm a pretty one sided student. Overall, I felt very prepared going into the test even though I only studied for about a week. Best of luck!</p>