Best GRE Prep Books – What others are buying
By Scholarship for USA on Sep 25, 2010 with Comments 4
I was recently looking around for good GRE test prep books, so I went on Amazon and did a basic search on GRE books. The website presented me with a long list of books, CDs, DVDs, flash cards, kindle books, etc. I was confused and didn’t know which to buy. So I went and did what every other person does when faced with a question. I googled best GRE books. Within seconds I had hundreds of articles with lists of the best GRE books that I should buy if I were to ace the test. Great! This was exactly what I needed. But wait a minute. Who were these people that were recommending these books? Were they university professors, educators, students maybe, or even someone that had reviewed the books? Nowhere on their websites did it say how they came up with their list of the “best” GRE books that I should buy. There was no way I could validate their list. So I decided to try a different approach.
I went on Half.com, eBay.com and Amazon.com and looked at what other people were buying. Essentially, I did a search on the books that sold the most. My reasoning was that if lots of other people were buying it, then that book must be one of the best GRE test prep books in the market, both in terms of content and price. I’ve listed the books I found below. Note that the prices listed were at the time of writing this article.
Half.com
| Popularity | GRE Book | Price |
| 1 |  Cracking the Gre, 2011 by Princeton Review |
$14.35 |
| 2 |  Kaplan GRE Exam 2011 Premier |
$17.00 |
| 3 |  Gre: Practicing to Take the General Test |
$4.43 |
| 4 |  Kaplan GRE Exam 2011: Strategies, Practice, and Review |
$15.35 |
| 5 |  Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary in a Box |
$11.18 |
eBay.com
Gre by Educational Testing Service (2002, Paperback)Amazon.com
| Popularity | GRE Book | Price |
| 1 | Cracking the GRE with DVD, 2011 Edition (Graduate School Test Preparation) |
$18.95 |
| 2 | Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary in a Box [Cards] |
$11.73 |
| 3 |  Barron’s GRE |
$10.99 |
| 4 | GRE: Practicing to Take the General Test 10th Edition |
$4.98 |
| 5 |  Essential Words for the GRE |
$10.19 |
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Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!
sounds great man any way thanks for the excellent work that you have done.