Books for GRE general and GRE subject

[Dr GaGa]

Hey all,
It would be great to hear from all of you who recently took these two lovely exams and what books worked for YOU!

I am about to order my books for the GRE general and subject, but I am a little confused which ones work best, so I decided to ask for some help!!
I am planning to study on my own and see how it works. It would be really helpful to get right books that would bring the highest scores!

Thanks in advance

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[cara susanna]

I tried a lot of different prep books, and in the end my favorite was the official ETS prep book.

 

[Wildcat06]

Welcome Dr. GaGa (love the name).

There are actually several recent threads on this topic so I would suggest searching for them. People had some great input.

 

[Dr GaGa]

I did! But I did not see anything concrete.. SO I thought it would be good to hear what exactly helped people to get the highest scores and look at the average

P.S. someone else might find it helpful, too.

 

[Wildcat06]

These are the ones I'm thinking of:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=641993
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=639928

For instance, here's my reply on one of them:

I used three Kaplan books to study for the general test: the big book and CD, a vocab flashcard book and the GRE/GMAT math workbook and I got well above a 1500 (though, like FadedC I did not do well on the writing despite my journalism background but NO ONE seemed to notice/care). Other than that I was VERY happy with the Kaplan prep materials.

For the psych subject test I used the Princeton Review book which has very good overviews of the topics, as well as a practice test book by REA which has good in-depth explanations of the responses but not all of the material is applicable. I also found a very old and very cheap version of a Myers intro psych book which was helpful since I'd been out of school for a while. Scored a 760, so I guess it worked.

Hope that helps!

 

[apumic]

GRE -- official ETS book all the way... and supplement that w/ the CD included w/ registration and use the free CBTs available online from Princeton Review and Kaplan

Psych GRE -- a good psych textbook and supplement w/ Kaplan's psych GRE book (careful, though, b/c it does have some mistakes) and the test included w/ registration

 

[cardamom]

reg GRE--combo of ETS and Kaplan, and a pack of vocab flash cards (highly recommended for fellow visual learners). Used both CDs a lot.

psych GRE--mostly Barons, which I found harder than the actual test, but great prep accordingly, and some Kaplan, which seemed easier than the actual test, and less thorough, but more accessible in format. I ended up making flash cards from the books though to memorize the names, which were my major weak spot, which helped a ton. Again, a good tip for visual learners.