Scholarship for USA » GRE http://www.scholarshipforusa.com Academic and employment resources for international students in the USA Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:46:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Best GRE Prep Books – What others are buying http://www.scholarshipforusa.com/2010/09/best-gre-prep-books/ http://www.scholarshipforusa.com/2010/09/best-gre-prep-books/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:32:54 +0000 Scholarship for USA http://www.scholarshipforusa.com/?p=1053 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

Popularity GRE Book Price
1 Cracking the Gre, 2011 by Princeton Review $14.05
2 Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary in a Box by Kaplan (2009, Cards) $12.83
3 Kaplan GRE Exam 2011 Premier by Kaplan (2010, Other, Mixed media product) $24.81
4 Gre by Educational Testing Service (2002, Paperback) $11.25
5 Barron’s GRE by Ira K. Wolf, Sharon Weiner Green (2009, Paperback, Revised) $12.25

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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Here is a list of ten schools where GRE scores aren’t a big criteria for admission; although many of them strongly recommend that applicant submit GRE scores.

  • University of Texas
  • South Dakota State University
  • Carnegie Mellon University: The Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT)
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Saint Mary’s University : Master in Information Technology Management
  • ST. Thomas University
  • University of Wisconsin-La Crosse: Master of Software Engineering (MSE)
  • Penn State University – Harrisburg
  • New Mexico State University
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic University

Further reading: Top Engineering Schools Under $12,000

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