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Summary: likely to improve your score
Review: This book really covers the types of questions to look out for and the answer choices to avoid. I find the book to be very adept at improving the average student's Verbal score. However, this book is not a Verbal cure-all. Do not expect to study it thoroughly and suddenly start acing the Verbal section. The best it can do by itself is improve your score, whether marginally or substantially. But for me, it has been a substantial improvement. There are some parts of the book that really yearn for more, such as the Reading Comprehension. There is a great mutual feeling among virtually all standardized test takers that RC is the most challenging section, and therefore should require the most thorough and in-depth review. Sadly, this is just not the case in Doug French's book. The RC review is approximately the same length as the other sections. It really needs to edited, updated and improved. Otherwise, the remaining sections of the book prove to be very formidable. If you keep in mind that this book is not a cure-all, then you should find the book to be very appealing.
Rating:
Summary: very good for non-native english speakers
Review: This is a very good book specially for people whose native langugage is not english. There are certain idioms for instance "prohibited from" which as a non english speaker I used to "think of as" " "prohibited to", differences in idioms which are marginal but which makes one totally wrong and the other correct.
For a person who has learnt english all their lives this is common sense they don't have to study it to know it. But for people for whom English is a second language it might not be so OBVIOUS. I have given this book 4 stars because the list of idioms at the back of this book is really helpful and also the book conentrates on idioms that are most frequently used on the GMAT. Also the sentence correction, critical reasoning are pretty similar to those that are in the ETS book. I would not give it 5 stars becasue
1) not too many examples
2) the comprehensions are a little too easy sometimes. you might be wondering it is not that difficult to create more examples and publish a thicker book right, so why did the authors not do that? but then how will the Princeton test prep company run if everyhting is already given in the book? Luckily I am from an educated household and my English is good enough for the GMAT but for those of you who struggle with your English also get a grammar book and study it side by side.
This book helped me get a 78% in GMAT verbal and that too I studied only for a WEEK IMAGINE THAT...I am confident that had i studied for 2 more weeks i would have scored >85% hope this review helps...email me if you have questions
Rating: 
Summary: Strengthen your verbal score
Review: Without doubt, Princeton Review has the developed the best approach to taking the GMAT Verbal section. This book is a microcosm of their expensive test-prep course. So if you wish to build up your verbal and critical reasoning skills this book will prove invaluable. I looked at other test-prep books, but PR was the only one that got me to understand what the critical reasoning questions were really asking. Thanks to PR my verbal score rose from the 65-percentile to the 93-percentile.
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