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Summary: Great Study Tool
Review: A perfect book for those of us who needed extra work on the verbal. The sentence correction review is very detailed and helpful. A sure way to increase your verbal score.
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Summary: Cracking the Gmat 2001 has what this book has and more~!
Review: Don't waste your money on this book thinking that this is an in depth verbal guide compared to the more comprehensive princeton review GMAt book. When buying this book, I thought that this book covered the verbal section in more depth than the comprehensive princeton review GMAT book since I struggle on the verbal section of the GMAT not the math. It doesn't. So pretty much I didnt get anything new out of this book. I applaud the Princeton review GMAT compreshensive book called "Cracking the Gmat 2001 ". Buy the comprehensive book (the on that covers the math and verbal sections) even though you feel your verbal skills are much lower than your math skills. It does wonders and pretty much goes over everything this book does too.Hope this helps. And good luck with the GMAT! Rich Kim
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Summary: Points you in the right direction!
Review: First, if you are unfamiliar with the GMAT, here's a quick overview of the test: The GMAT consists of three sections: one verbal section, one math section, and the essays. In the verbal section, you'll have 41 questions consisting of approximately equal parts of reading, grammar, and something GMAT calls 'critical reasoning.' You will see three or four reading passages (like those on most standardized tests), some grammar questions (which require you to figure out what is the best way to put a sentence in English), and some critical reasoning questions, which are basically logic questions. The GMAT, like the GRE and the TOEFL, is an "adaptive" test. This means that the test is designed to feed you questions that it has determined to be at your level. For example, your first question will be a medium difficulty question; if you answer that one correctly, you'll either receive another medium-difficulty or a hard question. As you continue to answer questions correctly, you'll get hard questions on the test. Conversely, if you start to miss questions, you'll get easier questions. This new format may not seem that important, but in fact, it is important to consider this when you are talking to other people about the test. Essentially, almost everybody who takes the test will say the same thing: "Whew! That was hard!" The test is hard because the software is giving you hard questions. So, when you read other reviews of GMAT books and questions, you need to keep in mind that people are commenting on the level of difficulty of the practice questions in different books compared to their GMAT, and your GMAT will likely be different. So, in a word, it's important to get a book with a wide range of questions of differing difficulty levels. Here's what you'll see on the GMAT: On the math section, you'll see 37 questions. You only need to know algebra and geometry to answer these questions, but some of them are pretty tricky. There is no trigonometry or calculus on the GMAT. Some of the questions that you will have to answer are 'data sufficiency' questions. These questions present you with some information, and you have to decide whether a math problem can be solved with this information. Finally, the GMAT requires you to write two essays; one of them is a standard essay, and the other one requires you to analyze the reasoning of an argument (most schools pay more attention to your verbal and math scores than they do to your essay scores, though). All in all, the test will take you at least three and a half hours to finish, pretty long for most of us!! Now, about this book. This is a good book to help you raise your score on the Verbal Section of the GMAT, but it could be better. This used to be the only GMAT book targeted specifically at raising your score on the Verbal Section, but Kaplan has recently come out with their version, which is about the same price, but has over a hundred more pages of material; between the two, I'd probably go with the Kaplan, but this one is good, too. This book is clearly targeted at the large middle segment of test takers, i.e., the bulk of the bell curve. If you are at either extreme, i.e., scoring below the 30th percentile or above the 80th percentile, this book probably won't help you much since it does not explain the harder GMAT verbal questions; i.e., the ones you are missing. The book does, however, have a nice reference section with the most common grammar rules and idioms tested on the GMAT. For this large middle range, however, this book is enough to show you what you will see on the test, and if you're the type who doesn't like to leave anything to chance, this book will make a strong addition to your GMAT preparation library.
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Summary: Coverage of all the important topics
Review: I am an engineer, hence strong in the quantitative section of the GMAT, weaker in the verbal section. Or so I thought until I purchased this book. The Verbal Workout book covers all three types of verbal questions (Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension). The author leads you by the hand and feeds you with very useful, very applicable information. No fluff and no screwing about, let's just get down to it. The author doesn't pretend to do all the work for the student. In fact, just reading this book will get you nowhere. But after applying yourself to the exercises and tackling some real questions (the GMAT Official Guide is a MUST have to get full advantage from this book) with the techniques provided, you will find an improvement in your scores. I did. The book is well laid out, well thought out and well edited; I haven't found any errors or contentious problems in it yet! This book is a star performer, and I have others to grade it against (Arco's Teach Yourself the GMAT CAT 2000 Edtn, Official Guide, 800score.com on-line guide, etc). Add it to your collection if you're serious about improving your verbal score.
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Summary: Where's the workout?
Review: I bought both the Kaplan Verbal book along with this one to study together. One, to be able to compare the strategies from the 2 companies; second, to get a really good "workout" to improve my score on the verbal section. What I found was that while the strategies between the two are similar, the Kaplan book gave more questions to practice with than the PR book did. However, the PR book definitely gives a more comprehensive grammar lesson than Kaplan does, and it also gives examples of "ETS tendencies" which is very helpful. All in all, if you're looking for a good english lesson review, this is a great book. But if you're looking for a "workout", go with the Official Guide or the Kaplan book.
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Summary: Where's the workout?
Review: I bought both the Kaplan Verbal book along with this one to study together. One, to be able to compare the strategies from the 2 companies; second, to get a really good "workout" to improve my score on the verbal section. What I found was that while the strategies between the two are similar, the Kaplan book gave more questions to practice with than the PR book did. However, the PR book definitely gives a more comprehensive grammar lesson than Kaplan does, and it also gives examples of "ETS tendencies" which is very helpful. All in all, if you're looking for a good english lesson review, this is a great book. But if you're looking for a "workout", go with the Official Guide or the Kaplan book.
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Summary: Where's the workout?
Review: I bought both the Kaplan Verbal book along with this one to study together. One, to be able to compare the strategies from the 2 companies; second, to get a really good "workout" to improve my score on the verbal section. What I found was that while the strategies between the two are similar, the Kaplan book gave more questions to practice with than the PR book did. However, the PR book definitely gives a more comprehensive grammar lesson than Kaplan does, and it also gives examples of "ETS tendencies" which is very helpful. All in all, if you're looking for a good english lesson review, this is a great book. But if you're looking for a "workout", go with the Official Guide or the Kaplan book.
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Summary: Targets verbal section perfectly
Review: I feel so lucky to have found this book. I didn't need to work on my performance on the quant section of the GMAT, so I was specifically looking for a guide to help me increase my accuracy on the verbal section. This book was exactly what I needed; detailed explanations of how to solve verbal problems and targeted practice. I also appreciated the author's cynical approach to the test itself, which I think helped me to relax about the whole thing, which in turn helped me perform better on the test. I'm going to post anonymously, so I guess I can say that my score went up 70 points, and that's without having done any work on quant. This book is easily worth the price.
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Summary: Neat and Concise
Review: I feel the book is a must for anyone who wants to improve his verbal score. The book is written in a laidback, easy-going ,fun-loving manner which is such a welcome change from the traditional style of most of the other GMAT books that proliferate the market . The tips are very handy and the sample essays provided are a big help in improving your AWA score. For a little over 10 dollars, the book is worth every penny. Go for it.
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Summary: kinda waste of money.
Review: I haven't worked out very much because there are not many exercises in this book at all and most of the tips are only common sense. It's fun to read, but not very useful or helpful. My verbal score was 65%. After i have read this book and finished all the exercises, it's still 65%.
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