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Hi all. I am looking into taking the GRE General exam early this next yr for entry into a MPA program. I have a lack of depth in math, however the practice exams appear to use very general math knowledge. Any insight avail. from someone who has taken this, both for math as well as the exam ad a whole? Thanks!
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AirMedic Wrote:Hi all. I am looking into taking the GRE General exam early this next yr for entry into a MPA program.
Hey, me too. I've been slowly collecting GRE General Study Guides. I have REA's, Kaplan's, and The Princeton Review's. I've only looked at the REA closely. It seems to do a good job explaining the mathematical issues.
Take a few trips to used bookstores. Unlike the GRE Subject study guides, GRE General guides are more common and less expensive. The REA guide cost $7 from a used bookstore and the Princeton Review guide $2 at a library booksale.
Hope it goes well for both of us when the time comes!
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I can't remember which site it was, but I'd found a place that had highly recommended the Barron's GRE Math workbook. I'll look around and see if I can find it again, but they had several forum posts on the Math portion of the test that made a lot of sense. I'd gone out and purchased the Math workbook shortly thereafter, but haven't had a chance to really sit down with it yet, due to my current classload... (8 weeks to go, with 4 midterms and 2 papers due next Sunday....weeee...)
Basically the authors (and others that had apparently tried it) advised working all the way through the Workbook and using the free GRE practice test software that ETS provides to get a good measure of your skills as you progress. IIRC they give 3 practice tests and a bunch of practice modules with the software.
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I liked the Princeton Review for a nice basic math review. If you are weak in vocab too I would look at Barrons for that.
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