Reddit reviews GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test: Big Book
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Yes. It didn’t have answer explanations. That’s one bad part of it. However I did spend time trying to understand why my answers were wrong. Sometimes looking at the percent of people who got a question correct will give you insight into why the question was so tricky. Maybe the right answer choice was trickily worded. Once you know what the correct answer is, it should be easier to justify it. There is always evidence in the passage for the correct answer. As for Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/GRE-Practicing-Take-General-Test/dp/0446396001
Reading comprehension was my weak spot as well, and I started off only getting 60-70% of them correct. Even so, I spent a good amount of my study time reviewing my incorrect questions and really pinpointing why my answer was wrong, how my thought process failed to match up with that of the test-maker etc.
I ended up burning through the Official Guide and Verbal Reasoning books early in my preparation process, so this is when I began working through LSAT reading comprehension passages from previous exams. The earlier practice tests tend to be easier, while the later ones are more difficult. In any case, systemically going through these sets made me a lot more comfortable with long passages, as well as with answering main point/purpose, inference and analogy questions, since they tend to feature heavily on the LSAT.
The ETS Big Book has a collection of practice tests from the old GRE, so I used it for additional practice. It's also a great resource for text completion questions, although the format is slightly different.
All in all, I think the most important thing is recognizing what your specific weaknesses are and getting as much exposure to those as possible (for me, these were scientific articles, as well as questions where you have to choose more than one answer choice).
No, I heard someone one day talking about the ETS big book and I downloaded it. It’s this one here: https://www.amazon.com/GRE-Practicing-Take-General-Test/dp/0446396001
Where do you most recommend taking mock tests?
Sure: https://www.amazon.com/GRE-Practicing-Take-General-Test/dp/0446396001
https://www.amazon.in/General-Test-PRACTICING-TAKE-GENERAL/dp/0446396001
Congrats on the score!
Could you clarify for me that the big ETS guide refers to this?:
https://www.amazon.com/GRE-Practicing-Take-General-Test/dp/0446396001
I am in a similar situation in that I'm finishing my undergrad thesis first week of November (Aussie), and most of the US PhD programs have application deadlines in December...will have about 2 weeks to study for the GRE max