No time for a course or workshop? Check out the books we’ve selected to help you study on your own. We’ve evaluated available books and have hand-picked the texts that reflect the current versions of the GRE or MAT. Click the covers to find the bookseller offering the cheapest prices we found this month.
Official GRE Study Guide is your most important book. If you buy no other book, you must buy this one. It contains 5 real GRE exams and after you have worked through each test you will basically have seen almost every possible question the test can throw at you. Even the ETS admits just taking the GRE can increase your score 5 to 10%.
Grammatix GRE Value Pack
is the best e-prep book available. It has been the key to so many of our students earning top scores. This book's GRE Rules and Hidden Patterns can give you the insights you need to earn your best scores in the Verbal, Math and even the Analytical Essays. Each strategy is tailored to the computer adaptive format. You need the to make full use of this book.
The premise of the GRE Prep Course book is that you know very little about the CAT GRE. The questions are representative of the current exam and the solutions are reliable and use shortcuts whenever possible. It covers all sections of the GRE and comes with a CD and online course to practice test taking on your computer. The vocabulary review makes this book worth it's weight in gold.
The ARCO GRE Math Review book is really the ultimate math refresher. It is sometimes hard to get, but it is worth the effort, especially if the last math course you had was more than 4 years ago or if you find you do all your math with a calculator. Remember, on the GRE unlike the SAT you cannot use a calculator. Do this book cover to cover and you will score in the top quantitative percentiles.
Instant Vocabulary
is an excellent vocabulary review book. With 259 word keys (we once called them roots, suffixes and prefixes) you will be able to recognize the majority of the words used on the SAT. It can be very boring, but it can pay off in giant dividends of correct answers in the Reading Comprehension's Word Usage questions and even the Sentence Completions sections.
