5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems (Manhattan Prep 5 lb Series)

Very helpful book, I liked all of the different sections and practice tests. I wish it did a little bit more to teach you some of the quantitative concepts, but it does a great job of explaining the steps for solving a problem in the answer sections.

Product as Advertised. Heavy and allows me to look like I'm studying at the coffeeshop while I write the store reviews.
English questions and their explanations can sometimes be a bit aggravating since it almost seems like "because we said so".

It is literally just a book of practice problems. The answers sections explain how to get to the correct answer. But I wouldn't use this as the only source of GRE prep. Definitely need a book to accompany this one. A textbook that explains the basic concepts prior to the questions and you should be golden.

I absolutely loved this book. I felt that the questions were extremely similar to the real test. After doing not as well as I hoped for the first time I took the GRE, I purchased this book and did half of the math problems in every section. This was the only study resource I used between the first time I took the test and the second time. My quant score shot up from a 157 to a 166. Highly recommend!

There's so many helpful practice problems in this book I doubt I'll be able to get to them all. The probability in particular has been very helpful as its my weakest point. The descriptions in the answer sections are very clear also.

Great practice. Somehow I find this book fun and a useful resource both for GRE prep and as a resource at home for vocabulary and math practice. I have not tested my knowledge yet but I look forward to retaking the GRE with this source on my hands.

Really helpful. This was the only review I used aside from the free practice exams ETS gives you and scored well enough the first time to not retake. Really helps you understand the format of the exams without giving you too many ‘pointers’ but plenty of practice problems.

This is the best, best GRE preparation book! I sure wish they (meaning Manhattan Prep) could broaden their selection of test preparation books to the GACE exam and others. The reason that this book is so incredible is because it includes SOOO many questions. Personally, I study best with practicing questions so this book was formatted in just the perfect way to suit my study style. Great purchase! I would highly recommend this if you are studying for the GRE.

It is definitely one heavy book, but it is so satisfying to have such an enormous amount of options and questions to sift through!

Once I remembered I had this resource on my iphone in my kindle app, it was a very valuable resource. I learned a lot from it without breaking my wrists and I had the convenience of not getting out of bed or turning on the light and disturbing my roommate when I couldn't sleep and decided to study. The practice tests are super useful. I highly recommend it.

This book was thorough, especially in math! It helped boost my overall score 12 points, 8 of which was in math! Definitely a help if you took the test before and know where you would like to improve through repetition rather than learning brand new concepts. Probably one of the best investments to help my graduate school applications.

love this book, great for working on countless types of problems. If you need to review though you may want to buy a book with review chapters, as this only has questions and not great explanations for how they got the answers.

This book is pretty straight forward. It contains lots of practice problems, 6 pounds worth actually. For me the best way to learn (or in this case re-learn) something is by doing it. This book gives you page after page of invaluable practice. A great addition to your GRE study aid collection even if you are not using the rest of the Manhattan Prep program.

It is a very helpful textbook to understand how problems are solved in GRE. For me, all the Manhattan Prep books for GRE became my bible. There are a lot of exercises for you to do and a very detailed explanation for each of them.

This was a great practice book. One question in the math section actually came up verbatim on the GRE test that I took. The wording/phrasing of questions in this book is very alike with the real GRE and it was very helpful (unlike Kaplan's math practice book)

You definitely need a 'strategy' book, but try and borrow that from a library. I tried both Kaplan and Princeton and I found the Princeton helpful with their tips, but then used this Manhattan prep book for practice.

I highly recommend it!

I thought this book provided a great amount of excellent practice problems. However, the difficulty of the questions in this book is about 95% as difficult as that of the actual GRE exam. I would use this book as practice, but for the final step I would recommend the ETS' actual practice exams.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough! I waited to review the book until after completing the GRE Exam. I am very happy with my scores and it is all thanks to this book! Beginning with diagnostic tests, you first learn what level you are and identify your areas of weakness. From the initial diagnostic exam in the book to my GRE result, I improved both areas nearly 10 points. The first chapters are devoted to the verbal comprehension portion of the exam, and give you tons and tons of examples of every kind of question you will encounter. I am confident that I at least encountered any possible vocabulary word that could have been featured on the exam. The book then goes into the math portion. Although it does not teach you how to solve the problems like a GRE course would, it explains the process to reach the answer. Although you can use logic to reach the answer to many of the problems (it takes forever), the book provides you with useful formulas that I had clearly forgotten after completing my last math class 10 years ago. The end of the book gives you a ton of example essays and more timed practice sections. This book saved me hundreds of dollars by not taking a GRE course, and was definitely effective. Buy this book and study, study, study! Good luck!

This is an excellent book for toughen up (inure) your stamina to the GREs length and style. It does not provide a content overview so do not purchase this book if you're looking for learning, from the ground up math and reading skills. This is great for drilling yourself on the various problems you will see on the GRE.

If you've forgotten some aspects or tricks it will mention them in the answers and serves as a great learning tool. (for example, the third side rule or percentage associated with each standard deviation in a normal distribution)

it also offers an EXTREMELY challenging quant section that is to really go above and beyond your knowledge and ability of the GREs.

I cannot recommend this book enough; its especially effective with a secondary books like kaplan's primer or another overview book.

I found this book really helpful in studying for the GRE. I got very good scores and would recommend this book to anyone who needs practice, especially with math. The vast majority of the book is mathematics, but that's what I needed the most practice with, so it worked well for me.

It was really helpful (and I did EVERY problem in the book twice.) The thing is: you need to dedicate like two to three months of constant, unimpeded study time to make sure you can understand what the book is trying to teach. Secondly, studying the other books has a lot more payoff; this book is really good for review, but is bad if you're trying to learn the material for the first time.

I used ALL of Manhattan's products, and now on my way to applying to Doctoral programs. Thanks Manhattan, you're awesome!

Take the practice test to see your weak spots, then attack them with more practice based on the chapters in the book. It proved to be very helpful for me. The difficulty level is higher (in math at least) than Barron's and I appreciate that as it showed me that I am not as good as I thought I was with some math subjects.

Great study aid.

I think the problems in this book are too difficult. Yes it's good to practice difficult GRE problems as well, but I felt that the problems are got in this book were more difficult than most of the problems I saw on the practice tests. That's not really helpful when you're studying for the GREs. On the real test you don't have time to go through such difficult problems and try to solve them by complicated equations. I think it's more helpful to use prep materials like kaplan or magoosh and practice topics that are more frequent on the test.

Although, one thing that is helpful in this book is that the math topics are broken up by chapter. So, if you're having particular difficulty with a certain math subject you could open that chapter and practice some problems just about that topic. The first ~10 problems in each chapter are actually not at the hardest difficulty, and could be helpful for reinforcing a specific topic in math (but I still think that there are better resources you could use like kaplan or magoosh)

book contained a lot of questions for practice. For math section, questions are categorized into different topics such as algebra, indices, inequalities etc. Very useful. the reading comprehension section provided useful ways to tackle different questions. Buy this book and go through every single question(really a lot). Most importantly, read the answers and understand where you are wrong or what is the best approach to such a question. Give yourself 4 months to go through it.