Kaplan Math Workbook 6th Edition

[Jive Miguel]

I've bought the Kaplan Math Workbook after browsing its contents as it looks like a good book for a "non math" person without over-simplifying like Princeton Review does.

Has anyone used it and had success?

What I like about it so far is that concepts are presented in straightforward way but the problems are fairly difficult as opposed to Baron's which presents the concepts in a difficult way so that one can attack the convoluted format of the ETS problems.

The challenge with the Kaplan approach is to understand how to adapt basic knowledge of number theory into actual problem solving. The best way is to do a lot of problems and fortunately they give you a lot.


The limitations of difficult areas not covered I'm not worried about b/c I don't care about a perfect
quant score but I do aim to score somewhere in the 60-80th percentile on a retake.

Am interested in anyone's opinions of this book.

[Oldman]

I worked through the book and it gave me a solid understanding of all the concepts tested. Especially the word problems, they give you tons of practice. I checked Amazon and it looks like most of the new test prep books are going to hit the shelves the second week of June...I'm not sure about a new math book though.

The only downfall is it doesn't hit much probability/combinatrics, but honestly I don't think those questions are very common the GRE. For advanced topics, the GRE only expects you to know surface material, and even then the questions aren't that complex.

[ObfuscateOften]

I own and like the book. I echo the sentiment that it is lacking in statistics areas. I haven't had GRE success because I haven't taken it, but I got a 790Q on the second CAT test I took and that book and the problems on this site are the only materials I've used.

[grexam]

Hi
is it possible to get the soft copy of the problems in this book free on net,since I cannot afford it