Saturday, August 25, 2007

Which Book To Study From????????

At one point or the other you have done the GRE portion in school. Its times like this you feel you should have listened to your parents when they used to pester you to practice your Math. The only thing you have to do, with regard to Math is just brush up with your school portion.
This might sound a little silly but you can just buy some second-hand Math school books and brush up your portion. This is for those people who are not going for classes. The only thing classes really do is just give you all the material. The worst thing is that every classes has its own material with different modifications, so you have to refer to tones of material just to be sure if you have covered up everything.
Well here are a simple suggestions on which book to refer for your studies.
1. The best for vocabulary wordlist learning is Barron’s Text book.
2. To study for RC’s you can refer to TOEFL textbooks.
3. The Official GRE Big Book is a good source to practice analogies, sentence completions and antonyms.
4. Please do not use the GRE Big Book to practice Math. The questions out there are very outdated. Don’t expect any Math like the GRE Big Book to come in your exam.
5. Barrons is usually preferred by Indians, Chinese, etc., mainly Asians.
6. For other people I would suggest Kaplan’s wordlist.
7. On the level of the Best content to practice, Kaplan’s content is the toughest, then Princeton Review, Cambridge GRE and then last Barron.
8. Barrons should mainly be used for wordlist and comprehensions.
9. For Math please use Princeton Review to begin with then you can shift to Kaplan questions.
Many people try to use the audio version of the wordlist but when you use such thing you have to make sure to read the words from a paper as you hear them. Only hearing does not solve the problem.
Mnemonics should be helpful with remembering the vocabulary. But there are hardly few good sites that offer mnemonics properly.

Essay Topics

1. Tradition and modernization are incompatible. One must choose between them
2. Many people know how to attain success, but few know how to make the best use of it
3. In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge
4. Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy
5. The concept of 'individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making
6. Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct
7. It is the artist, not the critic,* who gives society something of lasting value.
8. The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history
9. How we teach our kids socialization highly influences the future society. We need to adopt better ways to make sure that we have a good society in future
10. Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life
11. As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate