McGraw-Hill's GRE with CD-ROM, 2009 Edition (Mcgraw-Hill's Gre (Book & CD-Rom)) | 
| Author: Steven Dulan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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ISBN: 0071603077
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.1662
EAN: 9780071603072
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Publication Date: September 11, 2008
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Complete GRE preparation-for the more than half a million students who take the test One of the most widely-taken tests in the United States and around the world, the GRE is crucial for your graduate school entrance-and McGraw-Hill's GRE is the your comprehensive study tool. Created by test-preparation specialists at Advantage Education, it gives you the most up-to-date information on each section of the test. From practice tests and skill-building techniques to expert coaching, essay help and online practice, you'll have all the guidance you need.
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 Error Riddled December 24, 2008
The above review comments on the number of mathematical errors in this edition, but there are a number of glaring and unnacceptable verbal mistakes in here as well.
For example, in one antonym question, they ask "The opposite of deplorable is: a)eligible, b)acceptable, c)irreproachable, d) reprehensible, or e) intractable?
The answer key informs us that the answer is not in fact c (as one might guess) but instead b, because, "The word deplorable is used to describe something that is bad or 'worthy of reproach.' Therefore, something that is deplorable would most likely not be acceptable (b)."
It would almost be funny if it weren't so frustrating, misleading, and retarded.
SERIOUSLY, WHO WROTE THIS BOOK?
 good coverage, but SERIOUS math errors November 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the most part, this was a decent and comprehensive study guide, like a lot of guides for the GRE. It covers all parts of the test and how to answer each question type. For the analytical writing section, I especially like that it had examples of essays that were graded 6, 4, and 2, so that I could get a good idea of where my writing was. I also liked that it had 1 pre-test, and 3 practice tests at the end, because when it comes down to it, you need to practice taking as many timed tests as you can. Some other books have a lot of drills, but don't put them in the test format.
However, the GLARING problem that really brought this down was the numerous mistakes in the math section. Not just one or two, but enough to be really frustrating. Most of these mistakes were due to the answer explanations answering a slightly different problem. For example, on page 294, column A has 11/2 (eleven over two). But, in the explanation on page 308, column A is 1 and 1/2 (1.5). But then the last sentence of the explanation says "Thus the quantity in Column B (5/3) is greater than the quantity in Column A (11/2)." ! ! !
In another example, on page 203, question 5 asks what is the median of: 80, 27, 19, 82, 15, 72, 3. If you put those in order than 27 is the median. But the answer on page 208 says it is 45.5, because it only lists 3, 15, 19, 72, 80, 82. It left out 27.
You can check those out yourself, and there are many more like them. It is clear that the editors did not do a thorough job. I found that very disheartening, so I hope the next edition corrects these kinds of problems.
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