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Reading Comprehension & Essays GRE Strategy Guide
Developed by Manhattan Prep’s high-caliber GRE instructors, the 3rd edition GRE strategy guides have been updated to provide students with in-depth instruction in the test’s principal content areas.
Written by Manhattan Prep’s 99th percentile GRE instructors, the Reading Comprehension & Essays Guide provides a comprehensive approach to Reading Comprehension passages and questions on the GRE. It contains practical techniques for grasping difficult, unfamiliar content and perceiving passage structure rapidly and will teach you how to attack questions through effective classification and analysis.
Each chapter explains core principles and builds fundamental skills through numerous, in-depth examples and exercises. The chapter on Essays equips you to write excellent responses on the Analytical Writing section of the GRE, while handy analytical tools allow you to identify critical flaws in given arguments.
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to 6 of Manhattan GRE’s online practice exams.
Written by Manhattan Prep’s 99th percentile GRE instructors, the Reading Comprehension & Essays Guide provides a comprehensive approach to Reading Comprehension passages and questions on the GRE. It contains practical techniques for grasping difficult, unfamiliar content and perceiving passage structure rapidly and will teach you how to attack questions through effective classification and analysis.
Each chapter explains core principles and builds fundamental skills through numerous, in-depth examples and exercises. The chapter on Essays equips you to write excellent responses on the Analytical Writing section of the GRE, while handy analytical tools allow you to identify critical flaws in given arguments.
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to 6 of Manhattan GRE’s online practice exams.
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240 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2012
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October 22, 2013
I highly recommend this book as a jumping off point for studying for the verbal section of the GRE. Although I work in journalism and edit for a living, I found myself not doing as well as I would like on the verbal practice tests. This book was one of the first resources I turned to in order to overcome this. It teaches you how to read the passages in the most effective way, and arms you with a lot of good strategies for approaching the passages. In particular, the advice on the select two sentence completion questions and long passages was invaluable.
That said, I would not rely only on the Manhattan guides to prep you for the exam. You should definitely take practice tests created by other prep providers, such as Kaplan and Peterson's. After a while, it seemed as though the Manhattan practice tests were written to be beaten by their strategies and that the passages themselves did not reflect as closely those found on the exams. The Kaplan online exams seemed to most accurately mirror the actual exam in my opinion. I scored in the 96th percentile in verbal with around 2.5 months of intensive prep time.
That said, I would not rely only on the Manhattan guides to prep you for the exam. You should definitely take practice tests created by other prep providers, such as Kaplan and Peterson's. After a while, it seemed as though the Manhattan practice tests were written to be beaten by their strategies and that the passages themselves did not reflect as closely those found on the exams. The Kaplan online exams seemed to most accurately mirror the actual exam in my opinion. I scored in the 96th percentile in verbal with around 2.5 months of intensive prep time.
October 27, 2013
To be honest, I would have given this one a 3... the explanations are pretty wordy throughout. If you need to be taught how to read effectively from the basics, perhaps the book would be more useful. There just weren't enough sample questions to test your skills or drill effectively in simulation of the test.
The reason I gave this a 4 is because the section on the Argument Analysis Essay is pretty awesome. They breakdown 19 different ways an argument can break logic and is weakened in a clear and effective manner. It's more clearly represented than Princeton Review's discussion of those essays.
Happy studying!
The reason I gave this a 4 is because the section on the Argument Analysis Essay is pretty awesome. They breakdown 19 different ways an argument can break logic and is weakened in a clear and effective manner. It's more clearly represented than Princeton Review's discussion of those essays.
Happy studying!
November 2, 2019
The section on Analytical Writing is a great resource for acing that part of the test, but the rest is pretty useless.
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