5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems (Manhattan Prep 5 lb Series)

I've taken the GRE twice, two years apart. First time around - studied from ETS, Princeton Review and Kaplan. I did alright. The practice material from PR and Kaplan isn't the same level of rigor as the ETS exam, and ETS's book has a limited number of practice problems. So I did a lot of practice, but it didn't prepare me for the more difficult math and reading sections later in the test. My 2nd sections increased in difficulty and I was overwhelmed. Second time, two years later - Started with Kaplan and Princeton Review, but again was feeling underprepared. A friend recommended the 5lb Manhattan Prep book to me. GAME. CHANGER. I wish I had known about this book with more time before taking the GRE again, I probably would have also invested in some of Manhattan Prep's other study material for the quantitative section. A large part of taking standardized tests is getting a feel for the test, which only comes from lots of practice. This book gives you: -- a ton of practice, at the right level of difficulty. 500+ pages of just math practice and explanations (nevermind all of the reading and essay practice in this beast of a book) -- 30-50 practice questions for EACH topic. I found this really helpful because it allowed me to see the nuances between different kinds of probability or triangle questions, etc. At the end there are mixed sections to tie it all together, plus a section of advanced quantitative questions if you've mastered everything else. --AWESOME answer explanations. They're thorough, often detailing alternate approaches - different perspectives are really useful if you don't understand something the first time around. I'm so happy with how this book prepared me, and much happier with my score the second time around. I agree with other reviewers that ETS is still the best practice material, but this is definitely the second best book you can buy to prepare yourself. I've never felt compelled to write a review for anything until now. Buy this book buy this book, even if you only have a few weeks of studying left, it's worth it. (Side note - nothing to do with the book, but I used Magoosh's vocab app, that was also useful)

MUST HAVE for GRE prep! I ordered this two weeks before my GRE to cram study for the basic GRE and I gotta give it some major credit for my high test results! Also it was also waaaaaay more affordable than a lot of other GRE prep books. First off, please don't do what I did unless you want to spend at least 4 hours a day studying for this test because there is obviously a lot of problems in this book. However, these problems ARE exactly what you see on the GRE and steer you in the right direction to master the math quantitative portion. The solutions are also very well-written to make it clear on how they get their answer. It can be frustrating sometimes due to a minuscule amount of terribly worded questions but that's also an experience you'll go through on the actual GRE. The vocab, grammar, and essay portions are also covered well in this book! I didn't dive into it too much because it is almost impossible to know most of these words. Anyways there is a super slim chance that you'll guess the right words to know for the GRE. However, the essential words note card set that you get online for free from them does contain a lot of words that were on my GRE. For the essay portions, I advise to use the free tests the GRE site gives you since they're timed and give you examples of what to have to score in certain areas. Overall, I did extremely well on the math and above average on the English with having a very little studying window for such a big exam. This book will definitely cover every topic in-depth and explain to you the reasoning to give you the best chance of getting the score you want!

Hello soon-to-be GRE test takers, This 5 lb GRE book was the only non-ETS material I used to study for the GRE. However, I've glossed through other Kaplan/Princeton/Etc GRE books and have to say that this book is one of the best study materials you can get. The book is big, and I did not finish all the questions, partly because the questions seem to all look the same after awhile (this is a good thing!) and partly because I was lazy (this is a less good thing). I scored a 325, and the questions I mostly got wrong were in the vocabulary section and because of timing, because I didn't feel like studying vocab, and because I only timed myself on a practice test once. In my opinion, the questions in this book are generally tougher than what I had on the actual GRE (aside from vocab, as vocab is basically just vocab either way). So here is what I would do: 1. I would go through at least 1 of each section in this book - READ THROUGH THE EXPLANATIONS OF WHAT YOU GOT WRONG. 2. Then take the first ETS free practice test (download PowerPrep II onto your computer if you have one, otherwise I believe they have a paper version as well) 3. Then look over your score (ETS doesn't give you explanations, so you'll have to go by your score and intuition to see what you didn't understand) 4. Do the rest/as much as possible left of the sections in this book. If you can't finish all of them, at least do the sections that you struggled most on. 5. Then take the second ETS free practice test. 6. Then do vocabulary. This book is similar to all other GRE books in the way they attack vocab (basically try to get you to memorize as many words as possible). This works for some people, but it takes a long time, and quite often seems counterproductive if you won't remember the words after the test anyway. If you have the time and means, what I suggest to do is to read news editorials and opinionated articles and look up the words you don't know. This way, you really get the context of the word not only in the sentence, but also from the article and content itself. It is surprising how many words you've read and glossed over, thinking you knew what it meant, only to realize that you were completely wrong. I hope this review is helpful to you stressed-out students and/or nontraditional GRE takers! Good luck, friends.

The book is very useful for GRE aspirants as it covers questions over a wide array of topics. QUANT: All the topics in quant section have a separate chapter for practice with ample sums and detailed solution that states even the desired thought process to achieve the correct answer in shortest span of time. VERBAL: It has distinct chapters for RC, sentence equivalence and text completion each f fully equipped with loads of questions and detailed explanation for answers . AWA: There are several sample essays to refer from. Hope it is helpful!

There about 850 math problems, and I solved all of them except for "advanced math" chapter. As a result, my first quant score on November became nearly 70th percentile, not bad for a guy like me who had been apart from math for 16 years. I will keep studying with equanimity and confidence thanks to the book. A lot of problems, 850, were enough for me to familiarize to each theme like Algebra, Geometry, Standard deviation, and so on, in comparison with ETS's official guides having up to only 300 problems. "Learning per section" cannot be attained by solving OGs. This is true that OGs' are the most authentic, but we the beginner gets lost easily, and get lost. I got lost by only using when using "only" OGs in math problem sets. A caveat is that some problems of the book are straightforward, if not easy or instructive, and this is not the way actual GRE questions take. Again, familiarizing myself with each math topics with a plethora of questions was the most wonderful thing for me. Thank you for reading.

El valor que proporciona este libro es tremendo!!! Hay tantos ejercicios que no te faltarán. Y hay un montón más online. Y el nivel de los ejercicios es realmente comparable con los del GRE. La verdad es que por el valor que me proporcionó este libro pagaría el doble o más!!!

Excellent book for revision with numerous exercises and well explained solutions to the exercises.

Material muy completo, formato excelente, contenidos relevantes.