New GRE Verbal Workbook  (English, Paperback, Kaplan)

New GRE Verbal Workbook helps students prepare for the verbal section of the GRE General Test.

Summary Of The Book

New GRE Verbal Workbook covers each part of the Verbal Test section individually. It starts with an overview of the GRE test pattern and the verbal test section. After this overview section, the focus moves to the actual verbal section questions.

The first part is on word skills and comprehension. It covers sentence completion, analogies, antonyms, and reading comprehension.The next section is on analytical writing. The third section provides tips and techniques to build a good vocabulary.

The first part of the book covers the GRE test, what it is, the exam format, and how to tackle the tests. From the next part, the book moves on to a focused coverage of the verbal section. Each chapter deals with one aspect of the verbal section. So there are separate chapters on sentence completion, analogies, antonyms, reading, and writing.

Each chapter explains the fundamentals of the type of question covered in the chapter and a clear strategy on how to tackle that type of question, to increase the student’s chances of getting it right. This is then followed by a few practice questions, then several tests on that section, accompanied by answers with detailed explanations.

The writing section provides strategies on how to approach the two types of essays the students have to write - issue and argument. The book provides sample essays for each type of writing.

The vocabulary builder section provides methods to build a good vocabulary. It provides tips on basic vocabulary building skills and provides many word lists. It provides sets of top GRE words - sets of most popular repeated words, and a set of GRE words in context, accompanied by words with similar meanings. The book also contains a comprehensive word-root list, with a lot of words listed for each root.

The new edition incorporates all the new changes that have been made to the GRE test format.  It contains a huge percentage of new content and new practice tests based on the new model.