Title: The Official Guide to the GRE General Test Pdf
Author: Educational Testing Service
Published Date: 2016-12-29
Page: 608
Educational Testing Service (ETS) is a private, nonprofit organization devoted to educational measurement and research, primarily through testing. Founded as a nonprofit in 1947, ETS develops, administers, and scores more than 50 million tests annually including the TOEFL and TOEIC tests, the GRE tests, and The Praxis Series assessments in more than 180 countries, at more than 9,000 locations worldwide.
and yet the organization cannot be bothered to invest in the creation of a useful, worthwhile study guide The ETS's newly released GRE Guide is, staggeringly, almost identical to its second edition, which was a mere supplement to its first edition. In the last six years, nearly nothing has been changed, and in four years, absolutely nothing new has been added. There are parts of this book--notably, almost the entire mathematics review, and many of the Verbal and Quantitative sample questions--that have not changed in literally decades, going back to when the GRE was in a completely different format and had substantively different component parts. It is an absolute embarrassment that the ETS charges over $200 for the public to take its exams, generating literally millions of dollars in revenue, and yet the organization cannot be bothered to invest in the creation of a useful, worthwhile study guide.The ETS GRE Guide is a wonderfully useful text if you are interested in reading a book about how the ETS would like you to think about the GRE. It provides great insights into how the ETS considers its own test, but the book is not itself a great study guide. The best way to utilize it is as a supplement to a separate study plan. Do not bother taking the paper-based practice exams as practice tests: use the questions as problem sets. Read the answer explanations with a healthy amount of skepticism: you may be given the longest, most egregiously frustrating methods of solving. Do not, under any circumstances, think that everything in the math review is worth considering. You'll literally never need to know interquartile rankings, how to graph a circle, or how to calculate a standard deviation.Buy this book in conjunction with another text to study for the GRE. This is not a standalone guide under any circumstances.Misleading Math Section Do not buy this book if you are trying to effectively review for the quantitative reasoning section of the test. I used this book to study for several months for the GRE, and I took three of the four practice tests and earned above average scores. I felt fairly confident about at least earning an average score on the math section. I thought that buying a book that is manufactured by the company who makes the test would ensure that I earn a good score (with focused studying of course).NOPE.Test day comes, the quantitative reasoning section is at the least 20x harder than any of the practice tests and review questions. My unofficial score is several points below average, despite studying furiously for several months and always earning above average scores. I felt so confused about what happened because I had worked so hard--this wasn't a case of pathetically studying. Later I talked to some other students in my research lab, come to find out ETS's practice materials are not good tools. Kaplan and Manhattan are apparently better, so I will be buying their practice guides to study for when I retake this exam.I don't write product reviews, but I hate the fact that I just wasted about $235 on this book and my original GRE and will have to shell out another $205 for my retake. I don't know if this is some scam so that ETS makes more money from people who have to retake the test after using their bogus practice guides, but I do know that just because it says they make the test does not mean that it is a good product. I wish I knew that ETS's books are bad. Do not waste your money on this book, because you will have to waste more money to retake the GRE.Avoid the Digital Format! Do not buy the digital format of this book. The display and navigation is terrible. If you insist on buying digital and don't mind the awful formatting, make sure to view the book on the free Kindle app or else some of the questions will not display correctly...See attached picture as an example...
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