Manhattan Prep GRE Set of 8 Strategy Guides

by Manhattan Prep

Manhattan Prep’s 4th Edition GRE Strategy Guides have been redesigned with the student in mind. With updated content and new practice problems, they are the richest, most content-driven GRE materials on the market.

Written by Manhattan Prep’s high-caliber GRE instructors, these strategy guides contain detailed lessons and strategies for all of the question formats that appear on the GRE.

Included in this all-in-one set are books devoted to each of the test’s major content areas, including Algebra; Fractions, Decimals, & Percents; Geometry; Number Properties; and Word Problems. The Quantitative Comparisons & Data Interpretation Guide provides students the understanding necessary to attack each of these unique question types. For the verbal section, the Text Completion & Sentence Equivalence Guide provides a comprehensive approach to the GRE’s vocabulary questions, while the Reading Comprehension & Essays Guide equips students with the critical tools and strategies needed to master these portions of the test.

Included in this set are:
The Algebra GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707835)
The Fractions, Decimals, & Percents GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707842)
The Geometry GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707859)
The Number Properties GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707866)
The Word Problems GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707903)
The Quantitative Comparisons & Data Interpretation GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707873)
The Reading Comprehension & Essays GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707880)
The Text Completion & Sentence Equivalence GRE Strategy Guide (ISBN: 9781937707897)

Purchase of this set includes one year of access to 6 Manhattan Prep online section-adaptive GRE exams.

1920 pages, Paperback

First published July 3, 2012

Reviews

[Jason Tang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading sections are bit weak or irrelevant since the vocabulary of their questions are very obscure. about 3 star.

The math sections, however, are very thorough, clear and concise. 5 stars

So therefore overall assessment is 4 stars.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's hard to rate a set of study guides without exposure to comparable material. Still, this set gets four stars for the practice tests alone. With scratch-off codes in the books you can take up to SIX freaking online quizzes. I of course procrastinated too much and only ended up taking three of them, but you can look through correct answers (with explanations!) for each one. As for the actual books, they were good for someone like me who hasn't been in school for 9 years and needed something to keep me on track. It felt kinda like homework -- which came with a sense of accomplishment. Two shortcomings: 1) I wish the math books had a section in the back with all the formulas. I ended up with dozens of pieces of scratch paper, formulas all bunched up into corners and hard to find among the chicken scratch. 2) The actual GRE had more than one type of math question that I don't remember seeing at all in the books -- something like taking a percentage of a percentage in a pie graph... I may have figured it out but prep for that would have put me more at ease. Overall though, I think the guidebooks did a rather good job. I worked through them pretty much in order, BUT the very first thing I did was make vocab flashcards from the words in the back of book 8 and that was a lifesaver. Vocab is pretty much the only thing that can't be rushed, so definitely absorb those words over several months.

[Aurin Shaila Nusrat Sheyck · Rating 4 out of 5]

The mathematics section of this book is very comprehensive and all the answers of the practice questions are explained in detail. English section is also very helpful with exhaustive explanation and meanings of all the difficult words in the practice questions. But this book does not include all these words in the vocabulary section.