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Summary: DO NOT buy it if u bought the other Kaplan + CD-ROM
Review: This book provides great exercises to practice your verbal skills. It has practice questions at the end of each section as well as THREE practice tests for each of the three different types of verbal questions. Finally, it gives you one full-length GMAT Verbal section test. Lessons are written very clearly, with good tips and examples. BUT, if you have the other Kaplan book that comes with CD-ROM (math + verbal), DO NOT BUY this one as it repeats some of the same questions (quite a lot!).
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This book really prepare test takers. Teach you what to look for in the verbal section to correctly answer every question type. Much better than the Official GMAT book which does not give any directions, just give you a bunch of questions.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This book really prepare test takers. Teach you what to look for in the verbal section to correctly answer every question type. Much better than the Official GMAT book which does not give any directions, just give you a bunch of questions.
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Summary: Very good book to improve your verbal score
Review: This is a no nonsense workbook that gives good strategies for many verbal sub section(critical reasoning, reading comprehension, senetence correction and yes the dreaded AWA) in GMAT. Explanations are given with very good examples. Practice tests are so far the best I have seen in many GMAT guides.
It has a good deal of reference material on grammar and idioms. Though the atrategies given for writing the essays are good, I didn't find them very clear initially. It took some time to digest that part.
Before going through it I had a sort of phobia for GMAT (and had actually postponed appearing GMAT for several years). No more. For me the benefits have been beyond just the GMAT. Now I am actually applying the techniques in my everyday reading at work.
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Summary: Excellent book, but could be a waste of your money!!!
Review: This is an excellent book ... by itself. The quality of the lessons, appendices and the rest of the material is great. The section on usage is very good, too. However, if you have already purchased Kaplan's GMAT CAT with CD-Rom, then all the practice questions - 3 sets each for sentence correction, reading comprehension and critical reasoning - from this book (with explanations )are available on the CD-Rom. I, felt, sort of, cheated of my $$$. In summary, buy this book only if you do not have the Kaplan GMAT CD-ROM. Save yourself some money. Don't spend your money twice for the same material!!
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