GRE Prep by Magoosh

Good for starters

Has good and amiable insights, and examples of the GRE exam.

Bought the Kindle version of this book. The presentation of the book is very well. All concepts are explained using meaningful examples. The only downside is it doesn't have many questions to practice from but sufficient enough to get you the review of the exam. Overall an excellent book to understand the concepts.

Being a little weak at quants (shocker, I know) I really loved the way this book gently introduces topics and has little self-affirming messages along the way, perfect for when you're pulling your hair out at 3AM. Jokes apart, this book did exactly what I needed it to. Advanced quant, however, needs additional resources, so if you're aiming for around 165+ I'd really suggest you complement your study with other, harder material

A good book for preparation. Is comprehensive and clear.

Apart from the explanations for quant and verbal the way they designed the study plans is very very helpful Awesome book

Used this for my GRE prep. The verbal section itself is sub-par compared to magoosh online or any other preps. Having said that, the quantitative section is fantastic! It covers every trick and tries to get you to develop an intuition to solve problems. Small gripe here is that, right after an example, there is an easy problem and after that, it escalated directly to a hard/very-hard problem. This aspect makes you feel bad about not solving it within the stipulated time, given you have only been exposed to easier problems (but really though, I'll take failing to solve it here rather than during the GRE test). Get yourself some other resource for prepping Verbal and this is pretty much all you need for quantitive section!

Really helpful. No damage on book

The explanations in this book are vague and indirect. For example, they tell you that you can't cross-cancel proportions, but they never explain why. They show the proper way to cancel proportions, but they don't explain how they did it. You're left to figure it out on your own. Yes, that's a nice learning experience, but in some cases I don't have the background knowledge to understand why they did what they did. This is why your math teacher always says, "Show your work."

I can't say enough good things about this book. This was my first attempt at the GRE. I needed to make a 280 for my grad school program and passed with a score of 284 for quantitative reasoning and verbal reasoning combined. My school doesn't use the writing score, but I received a 2.5. The book was the only thing I used to study for the GRE. I studied for less than month, a few days a week for 3+ hours per study session. I'm 46 and had not had math in years and this book really helped refresh what I vaguely remembered and helped me learn what I didn't know, fairly easily. The explanations and examples were clear and concise. The exercises helped me test what I learned along the way. I also took advantage of Magoosh's free apps to test what I was learning, as well. I mainly studied the math portion and not much of the vocabulary or writing as I was confident in those areas. If you are needing a great study tool to get ready for the GRE and you are on the fence about this book, I would suggest that you purchase this book and see for yourself how great it is. If you study with this book and are fresh out of school, you will do much better than I did, so don't let my score be a reflection of the book or how well you will do. I didn't study as much as I could have, but I did get the score I needed. Good luck on your graduate school journey. I love graduate school. I'm studying clinical mental health counseling. I finished my first semester with 3 As and 1 B = 3.75 GPA

Arrived before schedule time. Book is light weight

Very good for GRE preparation! Sadly the book itself is rubbish, with several pages not glued in and just falling out.

Not a lot of questions as one would expect, but they definitely have the best strategies out there especially for the quant part