GRE Subject Test: Psychology, 5th Edition

by Kaplan Test Prep

Kaplan GRE Exam Subject Psychology features targeted review of all the concepts covered on the exam including social psychology, developmental psychology, statistics, and more. This valuable guide also includes helpful practice quizzes to reinforce key concepts, as well as Kaplan– exclusive score-raising strategies and techniques.

Each book

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

480 pages, Paperback

Published August 3, 2010

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic resource for anyone studying for the Psychology GRE test. I used the sixth edition, and it helped me so much for when I took the exam. This book has it all: detailed, easy-to-understand, and in-depth review of subject material, well-calibrated practice quizzes and tests, and wonderful graphics and images to aid with content retention. While I detest standardized testing for various reasons (e.g., unfair to those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, valuing memorization over true understanding, etc.) this book made my study experience as enjoyable as it could have been. I would recommend it over Barron's (which I could not even get through because of poor organization) and other prep books. Using this book as my primary study guide, I scored a 750 (91%) on the exam. If you have the resources and ability to work hard, utilizing prep books instead of taking GRE prep courses can save you a lot of money. Good luck to my fellow graduate school hopefuls on this arduous process.

[M L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty solid resource for review! Great detailed explanations in the answer keys for the practice tests and name indexes at the end of each chapter with a detailed description of how the test is scored at the beginning and little asides peppered in about what material commonly appears on the test.

[Rachel V · Rating 4 out of 5]

Needed a refresher, and this was easy to read and a good summary of many key concepts. I do feel many other concepts should have been addressed, perhaps in part due to the fact that the most recent version of this book was printed 10 years ago.

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[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kaplan always does a good job of getting you ready for the test, and this one is no different. Did a great job of getting my juices flowing again as I get ready to take the GRE Psychology test and improved my score on the practice tests dramatically.

However, there are a few problems with this book. First, it is full of typos and misprints that are very distracting. Second, it has at least one point where the information is just wrong. That one is when it is talking about mean, it says it "is the numerical halfway point between the highest score and the lowest score," this is incorrect as it would result in a data set of 1, 4 and 100 having a mean of 50.5 instead of 35. It does also say that it is the arithmetic average and how to calculate it correctly so they do at least have the correct information present.

[Ricky · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good for sort of getting the juices flowing as regards some of the stuff I hadn't looked at in a long time, I suppose. I wouldn't say it seems very adequate as a preparation for the test though. The practice tests are pretty ridiculous in the book.

I can't seem to find much better out there, unfortunately. I guess the best thing to do would be to take the practice test on the ETS website and then decide what you need to know more about and then go out there and learn it from whatever textbooks or websites you can find.

[Shirley]

Yes, I'm counting this towards my reading goal. I've definitely spent enough time to justify doing so. Can't really say it prepared me as much as I wanted, but it definitely gave me some sort of security and preparedness.